peterson was convicted of murdering his unborn son.
the law in 30+ states says that taking the life of an unborn fetus is murder.
would someone please explain how a non-human can be murdered?
lol......I thought you were referring to the OJ verdict when I read your headder.
If you can look at the issue logically. It is, and should be the womans decision to keep or not keep the growth inside of her, it is her body after all. If she has something growing inside of her that she cherishes and wants to keep, then of course the person that murders her or her unborn baby, or both, should be tried for murder.
So simple...
-fin
i love this place.
where else can you find fun, friends, research and the "pulse" of jws and exes?
when we come on board here, we realize that we all share different things that expose us to why we're out or in the process of getting out.
Hi minimus-------I love to come to this place and mostly lurk because even though I've been out of this cult for well over 30 years, it's left emotional scars that while covered over, will never fully heal. I find it sort of therapeutic to read about stories of people just like me that grew up in this cult and shared the same childhood experiences that I did. It's kinda fun to read about someones experiences and say, hey, that's what I was feeling when I was sitting in class all alone and I could hear all the other kids in class singing and laughing as they sang Christmas songs in the cafeteria, preparing for the X-Mas recital for their parents. You know, stuff like that.
-fin
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as the world was presumbly ruined after the flood,nothing was grown etc etc,what did noah eat.. if he have started eating the animals,they would have been none around,so what did noah and co eat to avoid hunger?
Salamat Po, badboy.
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as the world was presumbly ruined after the flood,nothing was grown etc etc,what did noah eat.. if he have started eating the animals,they would have been none around,so what did noah and co eat to avoid hunger?
Noah and his family ate the Ark (good source of fiber).....That's why they can't find it.
she is older, he is younger.
what's the largest spread in years that you have heard about that is.
1. fun.
I have to agree with sixofnine, a 26 year age difference is just perfect for me.
I am 46 and my wife is 20 years old. To say she is young enough to be my daughter would be appropriate. My wife is a few months older than my youngest daughter and she is a few months younger than my oldest daughter.
When I got divorced a few years ago I just decided that I would be alone the rest of my life, and after 18 years spent in a horrible marraige, the prospect of peace and quiet and no nagging was a releif.
The reason I figured I would not get married again was because I just didn't find women in my age rage very appealing, on any level. A co-worker who is of Filipino decent casually mentioned to me that if I was looking for a good woman then I should look for someone from the Philippines. I had never heard of such a thing, but I did some research using google and found that there a lot of fil-am dating sites on the net.
After a ton of research on the net, I decided to reply to some of the ads on a few of the free profile sites for filipinas that were searching for American husbands. I received some replies to my emails but one girl, my eventual wife Jet, popped up on my Y-messenger one night while I was at work. We talked for about an hour when all of the sudden she told me that I was probably too old for her, and that she had a girlfriend that had a child and would i be interested in her, I told Jet that I wasn't interested in her friend and that I agreed that I was probably too old for her, and then I popped her messenger screen off of my computer.
Jet popped up on my screen and asked me to forgive her and that she liked talking to me, I popped her off of my screen several times before I gave in and began to talk to her again. From that night on we talked for about 6 to 8 hours non-stop every night until I flew over to the P.I. 6 months later and converted to catholicism in a record 20 days so I could marry Jet in a nice big catholic wedding. Turns out that about 92% of the population of the Philippines is catholic. How ironic, I spent much of my youth arguing with my catholic neighbor friend about which religion was better, J.W. or catholic, and I end up converting to the enemy..lol
After a long immigration process that took over a year, my wife is finally here with me. I must say that I couldn't be happier. We both are very much in love with each other. I have told Jet that she can go back to school and finish her college degree here if she wants, or she can get her real estate license and go to work under my mothers brokers license, or if she chooses, she can stay at home and take care of the house. It's completely up to her.
Who knows what the future holds, but for now I can guarantee that we are amongst the few married coulples that can honestly say that they are married to their best friends. We laugh together, and play together, and love together. As far as jet and I are concerned, the rest of the world can screw themselves if they have a problem with it.
By the way, I wear a cool gold cross every day that Jet bought me in the Philippines, and as I promised to the priest the married us in the P.I. I take Jet to Mass every Sunday. It's really cool. It's mostly singing and it's only about one hour long....Perfect!!
ok, this may sound silly and trivial.
but, i need to know if anyone else has had a similar experience.. as a result of facial hair (a goatee and mustache), i was relieved of my incredibly important.
later, i felt like i should send the elders a thank you note for their wake up call to the fact that i was in a very messed up religion.
Cute candles.....NOT way too much info. Some of us have a good sense of humor and don't have a stick up our collective asses.
when i was a kid i was scared shitless of demons.
a couple of years ago i posted this subject, and some asswipes just suggested that i was just a scared little boy and that i should have just kept a stiff upper lip.. i was raised in this crappy religion and i recall that from the very beginning, i was told that demons were always around me.
i remember as a young child, i was told of stories of children that would go to bed and feel the edge of their bed go down slowly as a demon sat on the edge of the bed, ready to do whatever eveil they had planned for the evening.
Hey Terry.....I also have OCD (obsessive cumpulsive disorder). It is sort of mild now. It doesn't completly control me, but I used to do a lot of counting and I was totally obsessed with making sure that when I touched something with my right hand, that I made sure to reach back and last touch it with my left hand(I'm left handed). I know logically that this is stupid behaviour, but I always felt that something bad would happen to me if I didn't last touch something with my left hand.
I'm I know this behaviour is stupid, but I have been this way since childhood. I remember when I would walk home from school, I would walk home with my head down, because I had to make sure I wouldn't step on a crack in the sidewalk. Not just any crack, it was the natural craks that were made when they laid the little squares when the sidewalk was poured.
I know now that it was just my brain trying to take my attention off the horrible things that were occupying my mind as I was growing up. Even now as I know OCD is a mental disorder, I still have a hard time walking away from something after touching it with my right hand without reaching back and touching it with my left hand. I know nothing bad will happen to me if I don't, but I still have this desire pulling me back to it. Crazy but true. Damn, lol.
when i was a kid i was scared shitless of demons.
a couple of years ago i posted this subject, and some asswipes just suggested that i was just a scared little boy and that i should have just kept a stiff upper lip.. i was raised in this crappy religion and i recall that from the very beginning, i was told that demons were always around me.
i remember as a young child, i was told of stories of children that would go to bed and feel the edge of their bed go down slowly as a demon sat on the edge of the bed, ready to do whatever eveil they had planned for the evening.
orangefatcat...Believe me, your mom knew who was coming over when she told you that she didn't, the phone was invented by then, they called. She just wanted to freak you out. She also pulled your sheets and blankets from your body while you slept, trust me, that is what happened. Things don't go bump in the night. At least for normal people.
heathen.....Yes it is a load of crap.....A thousand years from now, if humanity survives, all religion, and the associated spirits and demons will be considered cute, just like we consider mythology a cute concept. People used to believe that crap also. It is just a part of history. Demons don't exist, and ferries and Gods don't exist also.
Yes dustyb, I was taught as a little Witness that there were tons of demons out there and they were ready to pounce on me at any minute... That's why I lay in bed with the blankets over my head and a cap pulled over my eyes. I did sleep with a night light. I was scared shitless.
sirona...My Uncle who was and is a good Elder in good standing in his congreation, raised his children in a house that looked like it was the origional Amenity horror house. This place was spooky. I don't think this was a mistake on his part. I really think he chose this creepy house on purpose. He was a cruel person, he beat, and I'm pretty sure molested his children at will. All the while he had a good standing at the Kingdumb Hall as a good Elder.
I think that people that are fanatic about anything are mentally ill on some level. I think that super dedicated Witnesses are mentally ill on some level, and that goes for religious fanatics in any religion. It's just that Witnesses let you disassociate yourself form society and justify becoming a truly weird person.
I can't prove it, but I bet there are a disproportionate number of wife beaters and child molesters in the witness religion. No way to prove it, but I bet I'm right.
-fin
what brand of suds does everyone drink here?
i personally enjoy good ole' bud light.
but if i have to be cheap i do sacrifice taste for quanity and buy keystone ice (ack).
I go for Anchor Steam or Harp....Yum.
when i was a kid i was scared shitless of demons.
a couple of years ago i posted this subject, and some asswipes just suggested that i was just a scared little boy and that i should have just kept a stiff upper lip.. i was raised in this crappy religion and i recall that from the very beginning, i was told that demons were always around me.
i remember as a young child, i was told of stories of children that would go to bed and feel the edge of their bed go down slowly as a demon sat on the edge of the bed, ready to do whatever eveil they had planned for the evening.
I notice the younger members weren't so scared shitless as old farts... I guess they have toned down their demonic scare stories...At the time I was raised a Witness during the 60's and the early 70's, they were sure that Armageddon was just months or even days away. If you don't beleive that, then you didn't live it.
When I was growing up in the Kindom Hall in the 60's there was an excited buzz going on, that Armageddon was going to happen any second. I remember hearing as a child, that if Armageddon happened while you were doing something bad, or were even thinking something impure, you would just be wiped out of existence. Not tortured, just that you would never have existed. To a little kid, that was devastating!!
So I think that the people that are over 40 can relate to the scared little child that was me, and the younger people can't quite relate. I'm sure that you were and are screwed up just like me, but us older generation have our own little space of screwed upness..
I am 45 years old and i just can't relate to my fellow man. As much as I want to belong, I just don't seem to quite fit in. I'm a great guy, and the sweetest fellow you ever want to meet, but I am always the odd man out. I hate it, but that's just the way it is. I just can't relate to normal people that were raised in a normal social situation.
As an example. I had to sit down during the flag salute every morning. Talk about starting off your socialization with your peers as the geek who sits down during the flag salute!!!. Kids are cruel, and they will focous on the weakest, and the the geek that stands out in the crowd.
When everybody in class was singing Christmas Carols in the cafeteria, I was the only loser that was sitting all alone in his empty class because Jehovah didn't want me to participate.
Things might be different now for the J.W. children growing up, but when I was growing up, it was demons to the left and demons to the right. I was just a young stupid kid that believed all the stupid scary fables that I was made to listen to three times a week at those long boring meetings.
The funny thing was, that I never got baptised. Even as a kid, I always had the niggling feeling that this was all bullshit. I was still scared shitless of demons, but I had the feeling in the back of my mind that this was all bullshit, and that we just lived and died and the worms just ate us when all was said and done.
Now that I am an adult, I still fear Jehovah (I will always fear Him) , but I am sure that we just live and die and that the worms just eat us when all is said and done.
-fin
