Kudos to your wife for following through! Peace to your family.
There are one-off young offenders who've been raised hellishly, fall through the cracks and eventually learn their lessons the hard way. We should do what we can to catch them young and help turn them around.
And then there are career criminals, repeat offenders who choose crime as a way of life, always upping the ante and going on to more serious, violent offenses. They have no conscience, and no place in civilization. Especially sex offenders!
As it is, we'll be paying through our taxes to ensure this repeater miscreant gets better healthcare in the jail system than most of us could ever afford by simply abiding the laws and striving to work/live peacefully. That's the part that really pisses me off.
~Sue
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The End...Finally!
by XJW4EVR inthis morning the bastard that attacked my wife with the intention of raping her was sentenced to 25 years to life plus five years.
he must serve a minimum of 30 years.
thank god for the three strikes law (i know that some of the liberals on this board may not join me in my gratitude for the voters of california's wisdom in making that law).
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Is there an honest way to make a living online?
by AK - Jeff inour area is hit hard by this recession.
unemployment is out the roof - close to 18%.. my wife has been trying to find work for over a year.
she has done so very diligently.
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Even in their prayers they prove that they are a cult.
by Sour Grapes inat the meeting sunday the brother giving one of the prayers said.
"that we than you for your organization because people who are outside.
of the congregation are corrupt and wicked.".
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For that matter, what about giving thanks and praying for strength, for those newly reinstated?
Bueller? Bueller?
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Even in their prayers they prove that they are a cult.
by Sour Grapes inat the meeting sunday the brother giving one of the prayers said.
"that we than you for your organization because people who are outside.
of the congregation are corrupt and wicked.".
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Have you ever heard them pray for those who are currently studying "Bible truths?"
Just once? Ever?
Or are the "honest-hearted ones" who accept a study in the same pool, outside the congregation, as the corrupt and wicked too?
~Sue
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Jehovah's Witness elder sentenced
by Kenneson insee sentencing remarks for gordon william inston at.
http://www.courts.sa.gov.au/sent_remarks/sr/0731_inston_gordon_william.htm.
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"You will have to serve it; it will begin today."
(Sounds exactly like a sentence from Jah, straight out of the Hebrew scriptures.)
~Sue
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At the grocery store
by beksbks inso i just went to the store, and got a few items.
salmon steak, artichokes, potatoes, grapes, peaches, and goat cheese.
the lady behind me (who was on one of those hoverounds) asked me what the little package was, i told her goat cheese.
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... And the salmon will give you mercury poisoning!
Just heard that one, a few weeks ago, from a lifelong commercial beef-eater with advanced heart disease.
How and why and where the EFF I mean heck do these people get off "sharing" their health and nutrition tips?
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I ran into an ex-JW on vacation. We're everywhere.
by MegaDude ini took my summer vacation to grand cayman this year, a small island south of cuba.
i love the scuba diving there.
the island is small.
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White Dove, you're right: It was thinking ability. But from what I also understand, the total lack of love.
Pretty much the same in my court. We are truly blessed.~Sue
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I ran into an ex-JW on vacation. We're everywhere.
by MegaDude ini took my summer vacation to grand cayman this year, a small island south of cuba.
i love the scuba diving there.
the island is small.
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Oh — My brother, another walk-away believer, met both guys at different times over the years.
He was impressed that one guy's wife refused to have a Christmas tree in the house, and the other one wasn't allowed to play sports growing up.
Ding ding ding!
But I agreed at the time. (Duh.)
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I ran into an ex-JW on vacation. We're everywhere.
by MegaDude ini took my summer vacation to grand cayman this year, a small island south of cuba.
i love the scuba diving there.
the island is small.
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So true!
I knew not one, but two of Mr. B's oldest and dearest buddies for almost 10 years before I found out, both were from JW families. Mr. B hadn't a clue, either.
Abundant ex-JW signals were there... but I was still a believer with a sincere JW blind spot. And they were far too respectful of my blind spot, my "daze."
Ah, the humanity! We can discuss our experiences now without fear or shame. But then we don't exactly sit around crying over it, it's distant past for them, and our lives
are pretty damn good despite the Watchtower regime's family poisoning program.
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my motorcycle trip next weekend with dubs....and why it is sad.....
by oompa incause i have some really cool old jw friends and it is a weekend riding camping trip in the great smokey mountains...........and that should be fun right?............ya.........except......
these cool old friends were going to let my dfd son ride with us and camp and all........but then some of their dub family wanted to come, and some other dubs who dont even know my son........and even though he was great friends with some of these guys kids... who wanted to come just to camp...........well..........they would not come if my son comes............ you can not beleive how sad this makes me....it hurts....i dont even want to go now but i do understand these nuts and i do like my old friends......my dfd son even said to still go because he understands why his lifelong best friend (just reinstated!!!!
) will not go if he goes......he seems way cooler about it than me.................... this kind of painful conflict is going to kill me early......i wish me and my son could move far far far far far away....oompa.
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Hey oompa, it's great that he's turning his life around, and you're there to support him. You have to know he's not the first "rebellious youth from the Truth" and certainly not the last one (I speak from experience because I wore that label well).
But even worldly people don't want to hang with guys who have a history — that's the consequences of his young life so far. The Witness angle complicates it, but it would probably happen anyway. You and he need to accept that and move forward with or without them.
Success is the greatest revenge against these people. Help each other show them how it's done beyond their ugly little cult. Then let them stew in their own juices.
~Sue