Posts by Magwitch

Yes, always. We do not have that many beggars here in Boulder. My heart goes out to them. If it is especially hot (100+) or very cold (0), I am especially generous. My daughters are struggling college students, but they have learned to give to these unfortunate people whatever change they have. I do not care if it goes to the liquor store. It helps them get through another day with a little less pain.

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THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE!!...THANK YOU NOAH...AND LACK OF SCIENCE TO PROVE THE FLOOD....AND POONTANG....OMG THE POWER OF POONTANG...I WISH I COULD TAKE ALL THE CREDIT...BUT NO!!!!!

by oompa in

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it has been a hellacious five years for many in my family...especially my poor jw wife who could almost walk on water damm it...she is a saint.....and i so hate i have hurt her in so many ways....and i mean that.....but it has hell for me too since third grade as i never fit in..... or 1995 or both of course...that damm generation of 1914 thingy being kicked to the curb..... and me knowing it was now all bs since then just as i thought it was before......you mean really???

?......you mean i actually am going to grow old and die?!?!?

!....no fukkin way?!

Magwitch

Such wonderful news Oompa!

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JW Husbands - a learned domination?

by skeeter1 in

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are jw husbands bad people?

would you want your daughter to marry one?.

i ask because a male jw relative was baptised.

Magwitch

OVER MY DEAD BODY WILL A JW MAN EVER BEFRIEND ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS. NEVER, EVER, EVER AGAIN IN THIS FAMILY WILL A JW MAN STRIP US OF ALL OUR DIGNITY.

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Tough Situation.

by Low-Key Lysmith in

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my grandmother is not doing so well health-wise.

she just turned 91 and has been a faithful jw her entire life.

she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is battling pneumonia on top of that.. we were very close up until the point, a few years ago, when she asked me flat-out if i had any intention of coming back or if i even believed in god.

Magwitch

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Your epitaph...what would you like it to be?

by onacruse in

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imagine that you are staring down from some ethereal plane of post-death...not the funeral, mind you, but perhaps years or decades after your physical decease.. what would you feel pleased to see written on your gravestone?.

me:.

he thought he'd figured it out,.

Magwitch

No more shall we go a roving

Lord Byron

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Former JW Elder who sexually abused teenager gets only 6 months

by behemot in

david nelson, a former elder at the madison park congregation jehovah's witness church in phoenix, admitted to authorities that he sexually abused a teenage boy on several occasions in the early 1980s.. with a confession from the suspect, it seems like a slam-dunk case but not for the maricopa county attorney's office, which brokered a slap-on-the-wrist plea agreement that nelson signed, the terms of which landed him in county jail for six months.

in addition to the jail time, nelson was sentenced to three years' probation and must register as a sex offender.. when asked for an explanation of the seemingly light sentence, mcao spokesman jerry cobb told new times that among other reasons the victim in the case (whom we'll refer to as kevin) was okay with the plea agreement.that wasn't true.

in fact, after learning nelson had pleaded guilty to two reduced charges not the six class-two felonies on which he was initially indicted kevin tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head just four days after nelson pleaded guilty.. "thirty-one days [kevin] had a tube down his throat [in the hospital following the march 12 suicide attempt].

Magwitch

This is so tragic

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Is it possible to completely forget the JW experience.

by mankkeli in

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i am wondering if it is possible to completely forget our jw experience after a long time, and live life as if we have never been one.

no memories, no bitterness, no meeting up with ex-members, nothing connected to the jws in our feelings.. is this ever possible, could it ever happen, and how long possibly..

Magwitch

Most of us will continue to have scars. However, I do know some that came out completely unscathed. My little brother left at 18 and went to school and then on to medical school. He is 40 with a wonderful career and a beautiful girlfriend. He does not give a hoot about anything new, old, stupid or interesting that the witnesses are doing. He just has completely moved on.

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Hello all

by Theredeemer in

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after many years of visiting this site off and on since its inception i would finally like to throw in my two cents and opinions into the mix.. first of all, i am a born in, baptized at the tender age of 9. although i totally disagree with allowing someone at that age to get baptized, i will say that i was very imformed and i knew my dogma!

at the same time, though, i was aware of many inconsistancies with many of the beliefs and practices of the jw faith.

i was adopted by my grandparents since i was 2 months and they had been jws since 1950s.

Magwitch

The Redeemer, it is good you are here. It takes a while for the anger to start subsiding, but in time it will.

it was a case of two people who shouldnt have gotten married

....Most witness marriages fall into this category.