Posts by Magwitch

sorry for the redundancy of this being the 3rd article out of this magazine i've made a thread on- but i felt it was important to share these quotes from the aricle titled " make your way successful - how ?

" i think you'll see the extreme dissing of higher education here and guilt tactics used to discourage jw members from getting a college education or earning a decent living.. under the subheading " higher education " ?

it states, " a christian has a scriptural obligation to care for his family, and that includes providing for their material needs.

Magwitch

" Becoming absorbed in a secular job can rob a Christian of the energy needed to maintain his own spiritual balance and to assist his family. If a Christian is overly involved in a secular career, he can end up having prolonged, severe stress. Such a person can even become enslaved to a career to the extent of experiencing burnout. More important, would he have enough physical and emotional strength left to carry out his duties in the family and to engage in spiritual activities ?"

This has a similar ring to what happened to my ex.... I have to say the society almost got it right this time...

Dave became so absorbed in the congregation that he used every ounce of energy serving the cong. He lost all balance of life and was unable to assist his family in anything other than a ride to the KH 3 times a week. He was under incredible stress and was a total slave to the Sunset Park congregation and their body of elders. Even though he was running ragged from burnout, the congregation continued to pile on him more than he could physically and emotionally keep up with. He totally fogot he had a family which resulted in the wife and girls leaving him and disowning him as a father and a husband. He ended up in the hospital having an emotional breakdown.

What a stupid group of men writing this bullshit and destroying families with it!

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Any of you folks from the awesome state of Colorado??

by SweetBabyCheezits in

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my wife and i are thinking of moving our family to a better place in the us....away from jw family and out of the southern bible belt.

just curious how many of you live around co and, more specifically, near fort collins?

of course, we're open to any city that is less conservative and has awesome summer weather and outdoor activities.

Magwitch

Oh and one more thing.....I think your photography would be very much appreciated here.

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Any of you folks from the awesome state of Colorado??

by SweetBabyCheezits in

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friends

my wife and i are thinking of moving our family to a better place in the us....away from jw family and out of the southern bible belt.

just curious how many of you live around co and, more specifically, near fort collins?

of course, we're open to any city that is less conservative and has awesome summer weather and outdoor activities.

Magwitch

I am here in Boulder -absolutely love it!! Everyone is healthy and in great shape - you rarely see anyone with a cigarette. The crime rate is very low - probably because a lot of the town enjoys it's marijuana, which makes many very mellow. There are plenty of fabulous restaurants and a Whole Foods to die for. No end of biking, hiking, skiing, running etc. plus everything that Thor said above. The weather is gorgeous the majority of the time - but most of all the people are awesome. Ft. Collins is also beautiful, but nothing like Boulder.

No end of environmentalists and animal rights people! Your dead cat picture you posted for me would definitely be frowned on here

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what age is the youngest COUNTED partaker of the EMBLEMS you know, we got one who is 29, from Slateford Cong in EDINBURGH

by the max in

Magwitch

Steve Lett, now on Governing Body, was a partaker by 1969,,he would have been 20/21.

Nice to know the members of the GB are even more mentally deranged than originally thought.

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Is this a forum for JW issues or a poorly designed political and celebrity site?

by Band on the Run in

it appears to me that even in the few months that i have been here there is less and less emphasis on jehovah's witnesses and anything remotely related to jws and more very poor posts about politics, foreign affairs and celebrities.

i can't omit the juvenile sex ones, which i find lacking in erotic nature.

it seems the 6th grade boys are meeting in the locker room.. the posts that involve jws have a very different tone from the drivel posted on others.

Magwitch

Band on the Run: I have enjoyed your posts and will miss them if you choose to leave. If we are on this site, it most likely means we are hurting and we all have that in common. Even the stupid or mean posts show how much we hurt and need to be here to find some sort of comfort.

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OK, WHO HERE IS GOING TO WATCH THE ROYAL WEDDING???

by Mary in

i admit it----i plan on getting up at 4:00 freaking am to watch it.

i remember getting up around that time 30 years ago .

anyone else plan on watching it?.

Magwitch

HELL YES! I will be up at 2:00 A.M. just like I did for Diana's wedding and Diana's funeral.

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Good News to Share...My Wife Said to me...

by onemore in

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my wife said to me last night....im done...im not going back to a kh.

i have to say that the wt did it all for me.

and the program at this last circuit assembly: ...not part of the world was the final nail in the coffin.

Magwitch

It is all so exciting! Your wife is free and you are planning on a new baby. I am very jealous in the happiest of ways!

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Update on my daughter Ali... finally some good news!

by coffee_black in

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i've posted several times over the past 6 months about my daughter, ali's severe heart failure due to a virus.

it has been a roller coaster ride.

recently her leads from her pacemaker and defibrilator became displaced due to strong coughing due to bronchitis.

Magwitch

So happy that today's surgery went well. Please take care of yourself BC - you are probably under as much stress as your beautiful daughter