Posts by Magwitch

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MIL letter to my wife

by AggieNostic in

background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .

our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.

my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!

Disgusted with JW Funeral Today!

by time2keepmoving in

my son grew up with one of the young brothers in the kingdom and after graduation both him and my son left the kh.

the young man who left the hall fell into the wrong crowd and i mean a really dangerous crowd and as a result of him getting involved in illegal activity he was murdered.

i really feel for this young man, because he was a decent kid.

Magwitch

Return of Parakeet...Father - 10 minutes.

I would say that is very good for a witness funeral. Usually it is 5 minutes of how the person loved Jehovah, went to all the meeting, was out in field service regularly and maybe a mention of their birthdate and then the speaker is off and running with 40 minutes of the Infomercial.

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Why do JWs get married at a young age?

by XPeterX in

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ages like 20-25 or younger.i mean damn,a 21 year old guy in my congo got baptised a couple weeks back and now his in a relationship with a jw gal and their getting married soon.any thoughts?.

Magwitch

I got married at 20. It had nothing to do with sex (especially considering the sexual appeal of the eligible bachelors in my hall). It had everything to do with my parents. They forbid me from moving out of the house unless it was as the wife of a spiritual brother. All of my older siblings were married and out of the house and I had to get out too.

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Watchtower says:You can be Disfellowshiped for being FAT!!!!!

by Witness 007 in

watch 1974 p.167 "by disobediently overindulging in food and making a glutton of himself, he fails to show love for jehovah...is food a big thing in his life?

in the presence of others does he selfishly ignore their needs and take far more than his fair share?

is he grossly overweight?

Magwitch

From the looks of the new GB-2 picture, those 8 men are in serious need of a stairmaster. In my town all 8 of them would be called FFA's (of course they are not all from America)

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No more big District Conventions?

by serenitynow! in

so i went to the hall today for a funeral and took a look at the bulletin board.

i was surprised to see a letter stating the dc for michigan would be held at the local assembly hall instead of the big convention center in ohio where it had been held the past few years.

have you all heard about this?.

Magwitch

They just finished our Assembly Hall here in Denver. It sounds like it is going to be used most weekends throughout the year - including 7 District Conventions this summer. The GB-2 should look into building a hotel close by so they can rake in even more $$$$. Maybe a restaurant too - let all the sheeples know where they can eat and sleep.

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been a while, it has

by chickpea in

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friends

soooo i fired up the interwebs to come looking for the date of the memorial, as a dear friend who stood by me through those crazy and sadly wasted years in dub-dumb mentioned she had seen a still faithful member at the library... she said he invited her to "the world wide memorial" .... and i was pretty sure that there had been a full moon yada yada and the memorial had come and gone.... .

i ended up coming back here to verify and realized she must have been asked to that lame ass event where "the same talk is given from every platform" and ooooh how fired up can you be about virtually nothing?

anyway, nice to see the place is still rockin' and that there is a continuity of personnel (that means old timers!

Magwitch

Chickpea - So wonderful to hear from you. I have thought of you often and wondered how you have been. You were one of my first friends over at JW Recovery when I first started exiting :) so I have always felt a connection. I have become good friends with a transgender in Minneapolis (Male to Female) and through her I have met many wonderful transgender people. This has really opened my eyes to a lovely group of people that are very much misunderstood. Very happy you are well. Take care!!!!

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Inquiry on GB 2.0 member - Did they get married?

by bats in the belfry in

it's been a while since we heard about their engagement.

did they break it off?

did they get married?.

Magwitch

I cannot believe parents would sacrifice their beautiful young daughter to this fate....SHAME ON THEM!!!!!

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Check this out - North Korean literature vs. WT literature

by sir82 in

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/03/12/christian_aslund_the_legacy_of_kim_documents_a_limited_view_of_north_korea.html.

look at that first photo.. don't those books look eerily like wt literature?.

the ones in the top 2 rows look exactly like the last of the hard-bound "thin" yearbooks.

Magwitch

This looks like a room straight out of Bethel.

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This Year Will Bring The End (T.F.D.S.) Estephan

by Este in

i witnessed the cleansing of the heavens in the year 2004, like the birth pains of a women, or nine years........ an increase of lawlessness, the economic downfall, the trials and tribulations of the faithful and discreet are being fulfilled as we speak.......prepare for the return of jesus christ........and every eye shall see him........ the slave of jah and of christ....... estephan.

Magwitch

Does this have anything to do with "Capitalism killing life on Mars?" Sounds like you and Hugo Chavez were in cahoots Este

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Jackass?

by Marvin Shilmer in

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judge or jackass?.

today i added a new article to my blog highlighting a comment made by joseph f. rutherford of himself.

i invite readers to make their own assessment.

Magwitch

Since he definitely was not a legitimate judge, I guess that would leave the alternative.