To be able to see Meet the Mormons in my area. They even released an official letter to all the wards so that it would be shown here. It appears to not be a proselyting tool but rather a way to make anyone feel good about the cult, its crazy as usual. I am hoping that the theaters wont show it here at any rate.

Did Jim Jones make a movie about how normal the People's Temple was?

It is just so culty to try and persuade people that you are normal.

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> Did Jim Jones make a movie about how normal the
> People's Temple was?

Jim Jones didn't have to...prior to the move to Guyana, the People's Temple was located in the San Francisco Bay Area, and they got TONS of free publicity (TV especially, but also newspaper and magazine coverage too) from the news media for the WONDERFUL!!!, and socially POSTIVE!!!, and INSPIRING!!! work they were doing for the greater northern California area.

What was actually somewhat astounding (for that time: 1970s) was that the People's Temple, with a membership of several hundred, was racially integrated...and people who were drawn to the People's Temple worked together---white and black equally---as a caring, cohesive group.

For that time, this was newsworthy...and they got unbelievable amounts of state and national publicity because it WAS (and this was, indeed, truly a fact) a GENUINELY racially integrated group.

Once Jim Jones ordered the group move to Guyana (on the northern coast area of South America), the members were geographically isolated---and things went insane really fast due to the rapidly increasing paranoia of Jim Jones.

But for the time they were in the Bay Area, they were tremendously well known because of the very positive coverage by television and the news and popular print media.

If there HAD been a film made PRIOR to the move to Guyana, it would have had a niche, but profitable, paid audience over much of the country...because there WAS actual interest in the People's Temple and how they were doing real racial integration apparently so well.

How about watching:

"Meet a Scientologist" instead?

http://www.scientology.org/video/meet-a-scientologist.html

OMG! Pray to have that movie come to your area? Just curious, where is this? No one where I love has even heard about it.

MEET A SCIENTOLOGIST??!!! That is AWESOME. We are now getting our ideas from the other demonstrably ludicrous space cult.

Perfect

I don't think they get that many people view Scientology, JWs and Mormonism as cousins of a sort.

I recently had to explain mormonism to curious heathens, and the "scientologists from the 19th century" is what fitted the bill most accurately.

As nutty as the history of the Adventists is, at least they spend their energy trying to save lives with health care research.

LDS, Inc. spends its time trying to make money and recruit more suckers, er, members. Missionaries are salesmen, not helpers.

What if they spent their money to build research hospitals? It's telling that BYU has a law school and a business school, but not a medical school.

I'm confused. They asked members to pray to be able to see it. Can't they just go to a theatre when they're not busy and watch it? Won't it be online?

It is a limited release film, so it may not be available near you.

http://meetthemormons.com/locations?s

The closest location to me is over 10 miles away.

Why is the film rated PG? Do they swear or have sexual situations? Maybe they show polygamist weddings.

Oh goody. Looks like it's coming here, but not to the theater that serves wine. So, no thanks.

I'm worried. At our local "Regal" cinema (town in Georgia), there is a function on the website to demand a movie, and 130 people have demanded "Meet the Mormons." 388 people have demanded "Gone Girl," and 341 people demanded "Left Behind." I think that the difference would be that more than 388 people would see "Gone Girl," and only 130 people would see "Meet the Mormons."

This is so lame. The prospect of the Mormon movie coming here is disturbing me about as much as the prospect of getting Mitt Romney for president.

Not a single theatre in my state! But in thirty-eight towns in Utah.



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God knows it's cheaper to pray than advertise or make something that appeals to movie-goers.

Did that prayer include popcorn with the movie?

Please bless this liquid butter will nourish and strengthen our bodies...

Kevin Smith just released a movie featuring Johnny Depp...I watched the movie alone in an empty theater. If Kevin Smith and Johnny Depp can't pack the house, Meet The Mormons is going to bomb in a very comical way. The only ones who will go see it will be Mormons.

I'm praying that the movie doesn't make it to their town and my prayers are a lot more powerful than theirs.

But I fasted with my prayer. God loves it when you starve yourself then plead. So, my prayer trumps all yours.

Dang !

You know I hate it when you play your trump card !!! *LOL*

"Beware of "meeting" people who attempt to hone the image of the cult they belong to by touting how "normal" they are.

Would that be too obvious?

:-)

So my wife hasn't mentioned this at all. Anyone in Virginia know if the stakes here are doing that as well?

TBMs praying to be able to see a movie to meet Mormons. If they want to meet Mormons, or have their non-Mo friends meet Mormons can't they just show up on Sunday, or Saturday for toilet cleaning? Couldn't they just run bios on the BYU cable tv channel?

To me this just looks like another tax on their money and time.

Out of curiousity I checked and two cities listed in my state with population around 3 million. I have a hunch that is going to be one screen at one theatre in each of those cities. Under comments people are saying they want more locations so people in their ward won't have to travel so far ... that is all ... not so that non-Mos will see it.

My son manages one of the theatres in town. He stated that someone had rented all 5 screens for one afternoon to show "Meet the Mormons." It is all going to be LDS folks. Is someones faith so flimsy that they need to do such a ridiculous thing to bolster it?

Stupid should hurt.

HH =)

The mormon church is most likely doing their best to "guilt", manipulate and shame people of means into buying screentime with their own money or absorbing the cost to show "Meet the Mormons" if they actually own the theater. And, of course, all the members are being pressured to buy tickets to see propaganda. What a sneaky, cheap organization.

I wonder if the ticket price will include "FREE MILK DUDS" ?

You get those before the Meat Duds.

I see they removed the unanswered question if it was being translated into 'Reformed Egyptian'.

Yes, pray first, then pay a fee to attend, finally obey all the crazy things they tell you to do in the movie. Sounds familiar...The Boner.

I received an email (as part of a mass relief society email) to watch the trailer and then request that the movie come here. **around Nashville** I seriously doubt this movie will be seen by anyone who is not Mormon. It was definitely made to make members of a cult feel good about being members of a cult. Not a bad idea really. They will all walk out of the theater "feeling the spirit." Then folks will be baring their testimony about the movie. Oh what a crutch this church has created!!

Are the prayers supposed to inform God what's going on, , because He wasn't paying attention to what his inspired leaders had planned for spreading His gospel? Maybe He hadn't noticed that theaters weren't jumping at the chance to show it? It's awfully strange how He can read our thoughts and knows everything we do every moment of every day, but somehow, this particular problem escaped his notice? Good thing he's got people to pass the news on to him.

Or is God just craving a little begging from his chosen people? Maybe He needs some groveling before He'll do what he was planning on doing anyway?

If you beg enough, can God change the hearts of the theater owners? Does that mean they don't have free will?

The big problem I have with these campaigns to get a bunch of people to pray for a particular thing, whether it be someone's health, safety, or solving a crisis, is that it insults the whole concept of God (who I don't believe in, BTW). If God is what they claim He is, he would already know what's going on, and the best course of action. He wouldn't need a bunch of humans informing him or begging him. Basically, their prayers would be pointless, and even presumptuous.

People are being manipulated, here, by being given the responsibility to make things happen that they don't have the ability to control.