jamesmahon
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Just an update
by jamesmahon inwell i have not posted or come here for a while.
it is late but felt drawn here to leave a bit of an update.. i left my wife at the start of december.
i half met someone online but it just made me realise very quickly how much i want to be in a loving relationship not a toxic one and what a mess everything was.
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any fluent german and english speakers?
by jamesmahon ini know it is a big ask but i have a personal message in german that i need to translate into english.
tried the online translators and they are good but there are some important nuances i think i am missing.
james.
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All scripture is inspired of god...which scripture?
by jamesmahon indon't know why but was thinking of 2 timothy 3:16 last night (you know 'all scripture is inspired of god etc').
i was thinking this scripture is used by the jws as well as others to say that the bible is the word of god.
however, as the bible is a construct several hundred years after the death of christ each writer was unaware of the bible as a whole.
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Why you love America
by jamesmahon init struck me, as i guess it has a lot of people, that there are so many threads from both americans and the rest of us that seem to descend into america bashing.
i thought it might be quite nice to have a thread solely (and i mean solely - if this just turns negative i will call foul) on what we think is great about america.
as a brit who has lived and been over a number of times there are many parts about america that i think are great and thought is would be healthy to have a positive thread for a change.. so a starter for ten (with a few gross generalisations thrown in):.
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For NFL fans
by jamesmahon inso i got into the nfl in the early/mid 90s.
back then there were some great running backs - happening onto a lions game late on sunday night over here and seeing barry sanders was what got me into it.
but it seems the running game is dead.
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I don't think I have been educating my lad properly...
by jamesmahon injust been looking at book about the human body with my 8 year old boy and got to an 'interesting' part.
"dad, what is a penis?".
"erm, the appendage between your legs" (i do try to use proper words with him so was surprised he asked).
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Words that were ok to use as a witness
by jamesmahon inthis follows on from the other thread on michael jackson and an earlier one this morning.
sufficiently different to start a new thread i thought though.. on the mj thread i had a bit of a poke at glander and used a load of anti-gay terms.
what i thought was interesting was that they were all terms that i used to use as a witness.
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Thoughts on Sparlock from a non-JW
by jamesmahon inthis does not add much to what has gone before, but just had an interesting (and brief) email exchange with someone i do work with:.
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Marital problems - advice (or support) please
by jamesmahon incompletely non-jw related this but value the diversity of experience and viewpoint on this forum.
i am going to sketch this out quick as i can but please ask any questions if the gaps need filling.. as some may know, i have been married for 12 years with two children (8 and 4).
my wife stopped work when the eldest was born and has been a stay at home mum since.
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Give Patagonia back to the native people
by jamesmahon init came to my attention that argentina has for the past 130 years being occupying patagonia having forcibly removed or killed the native people there during the conquest of the desert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conquest_of_the_desert.. these people didn't have the knowledge of complex european treaties and flags to stake claim to territory.
they just thought that because they had lived there all their lives (as well as at least several generations previous) they had some right to govern themselves in the land which they lived.
unfortunately they were wrong.