Posts by jamiebowers

I am very busy with two part time jobs, but I don't make enough money. My husband works in the automotive industry, and he is putting in way too many hours. It looks like there will be no let up for at least a few years on that. At least he's making decent money with the overtime, but he has time for little else. We are trying to get a remodeling job done on our house, but I have a physical disability that keeps me from being much help. We're also just starting the process of selling my in-laws house, as they've been gone for 4 years. We haven't even put it on the market yet, and 3 people have expressed interest in buying it. Once it sells, we're going to have a big addition put on our house. I can hardly wait! It should be an interesting project, as we are going to have a basement put under an existing one story structure, and if there's enough money left, we'll have the roof ripped off of the first story and a master bedroom built above it. I've been planning this for years, but we didn't do it sooner, because we didn't want to go into debt. Now that it looks like we'll be getting a little extra cash, my husband will finally have both a huge master bedroom and a play room for a pool table and the like. He really deserves it, because he works so hard at his job, and he is so helpful around the house. He does so many things that I should be doing as far as lifting and toting things and using steps, but he never complains.

I shouldn't be complaining either, because we have it a lot better than most. We have a comfortable home, wonderful pets, good friends, and our kids are grown and out on their own. Now we have two litttle granddaughters that we spoil. Other than the crappy Ohio weather, we love where we live. Life is good.

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Doesn't this Song Remind You of Being a JW & an Apostate?

by jamiebowers in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbkz_3lo3c

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Yes, it is In the Arms of an Angel. When I said apostate, I meant being a member of JWD, being angels for each other.

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Doesn't this Song Remind You of Being a JW & an Apostate?

by jamiebowers in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbkz_3lo3c

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVbkz_3lO3c

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Being a JW Certainly Helped to Screw this Guy Up!

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/4618008a10.html.

murder accused: 'i was the chosen one'by kim ruscoe - fairfax media | monday, 14 july 2008. email a friend | printable view | have your sayrelated linkssubscribe to archivestuff.

latest: samurai swordsman antonie dixon has told a high court jury he was raped and sodomised by his jehovahs witness elders and chained to a clothesline by his mother.. .

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/4618008a10.html

Murder accused: 'I was the chosen one'

By KIM RUSCOE - Fairfax Media | Monday, 14 July 2008
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LATEST: Samurai swordsman Antonie Dixon has told a High Court jury he was raped and sodomised by his Jehovah’s Witness elders and chained to a clothesline by his mother.

Dixon, 40, faces eight charges relating to the January 22, 2003 incident during which Rennee Gunbie and Simonne Butler were attacked with a samurai sword at Pipiroa, near Thames, and James Te Aute was shot dead in Auckland.

Dixon was found guilty in 2005 on eight charges including murder and causing grievous bodily harm but the Court of Appeal later ordered a second trial, suppressing its reasons for quashing his convictions.

Defence lawyer Barry Hart told the jury in his opening address that calling Dixon to give evidence was a big step but it was taken so Dixon could tell the jury about himself.

The Crown would not be able to prove beyond reasonable doubt the essential elements of the charges, he said.

Speaking in a barely audible voice, Dixon described his childhood growing up in an Auckland boarding house run by his mother, with three of his seven siblings.

"I was the chosen one," Dixon said.

He could communicate telephathically with his mother and got "messages" from radio music and programmes.

Being the "chosen one" also meant he was regularly "raped and sodomised" by multiple church elders from an early age till he was about 15, he said.

As he got bigger and stronger "they would just bring in extra men," Dixon said.

His mother was a schizophrenic who also sexually abused him, and would chain him to a clothesline.

His father "had demons" that, on one occasion, "escaped from his body and raped one of the other Jehovah’s Witnesses", he said.

The incident led to his father being kicked out of home when he was just six years old and he died two years later, Dixon said.

"I inherited the demons from my Dad, that’s where my problems, my Mum said, came from.

Dixon said he was spied on in 2003 the "New World Order" – a world organisation carrying out terrorists investigations – who had a 747 airplane fully equipped with surveillance devices. He was also being "followed" by Cessna planes.

"I started pulling the car apart to find the tracking device but I couldn’t find it," he said.

"The planes were following me. It’s being covered up, it’s like a conspiracy."

The conspiracy had continued during his imprisonment and even into the court room, he said.

"The prison guards, they started asking me strange questions, my phones are bugged and my visits are being blocked," Dixon said.

Further, his Maori girlfriend who had a young baby had been banned from the court room.

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Governing Body member comment

by 5thGeneration in

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i was looking for a post i read online about a gb member saying that he knows there are errors in wt teachings but they can't change them all at once.. was i dreaming?.

any help would be appreciated.

thx.. .

jamiebowers

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/161331/1.ashx

Check out part further down the page. I think it was said there.

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Governing Body member comment

by 5thGeneration in

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i was looking for a post i read online about a gb member saying that he knows there are errors in wt teachings but they can't change them all at once.. was i dreaming?.

any help would be appreciated.

thx.. .

jamiebowers

I think it was said during Lance's interview on V's latest video.

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A song that resonated with me today...

by Mickey mouse in

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...i heard this today for the first time in a while and it completely summed up how i feel about keeping my feelings about the borg from my husband.

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=06f7wogeuci

jamiebowers

I don't know what it is about Madonna songs. She was never a favorite of mine, but there are a few songs of her's that can make me cry. I posted before about this, but her song "Live to Tell" was popular when I was in an abusive jw marriage. It reminds me very much how I felt at the time. I couldn't tell anyone except the elders, and they were useless. I really was so afraid that I wouldn't live to tell. Shit, I'm crying now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRttd5ESx8

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Oh Boy!!

by Quester55 in

my sister met me at the laundry mat today to tell me how she doesn't think its wise for me to ":go out with worldly friends" i should go out with the "sisters" n the congregaion.

the 'love you and have your best interests at heart' well, everytime i've tried to call somebody to see if they wanted to go somewhere, it was always an interference with meetings, or field service, or personal study.

how can i tell her these witness sisters are hurting me everytime they open their mouths.

jamiebowers

If I remember correctly, you rent from a jw due to limited economics. The Word of God isn't depressing; it's the word of the GB that's getting you down!