i am married to a jw woman who lives in the philippines.
divorce is not possible there so she is seeking an annulment of our marriage.
in order to make sure she followes true with the annulment i have asked her not to be with another man until the annulment is final.
I am so sorry this happened to you. This is not a good thing. However maybe you should check the legal stuff about this before you worry about the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Are you still legally married? Are you still responsible financially for her? Get yourself straightened out legally, and make sure you're not liable for anything. Then you can worry about what her cult thinks about all of this.
Hang in there.
((Hugs))
do you truly believe that there is a place/state/condition that god will forever banish some people to, along the lines of the hell concept?
only the "really bad", the "bad", or even the "not as good as they should be"?.
(this came to mind when i saw the "jews in hell" thread.
As a person who cannot wrap her mind around death being just nothing, I struggle to figure out what kind of afterlife there might possibly be. (I just can't believe its 70+ years and that's it. It's like, why bother?)
That being said, I would imagine there must be a greater reward for the Martin Luther King-like people than for people like, say, Fred Franz?
http://www.nydailynews.com/01-19-2005/news/local/story/272760p-233545c.html
at least his family was supportive of him and loved him.
by nancy dillon.
http://www.nydailynews.com/01-19-2005/news/local/story/272760p-233545c.html
At least his family was supportive of him and loved him. How sad.
| New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com |
| Misfire kills proud Bronx G.I. BY NANCY DILLON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, January 19th, 2005 Kim Swindell's hands trembled yesterday as she read the haunting E-mail her soldier son sent from Iraq just four days before he was killed Saturday. "I'm fine over here," Sgt. Nathaniel Swindell of the South Bronx wrote from his base in Mosul. "We've just been hard-charging over here for three months. But now we have the swing of things." He bragged about completing his 100th mission: setting up a traffic control point on a busy street. And he complained about a finger injury he got from a battering ram used in door-to-door searches. "He was really proud to be doing what he was doing," Kim Swindell, 41, said through tears. Nathaniel Swindell, 24, was serving with the Stryker Brigade of Fort Lewis, Wash., when a firearm belonging to an Iraqi National Guardsman accidentally misfired into his back. The bullet slipped beneath Swindell's protective armor and killed him quickly within the confines of his base, family members said. "We didn't really want him to go to Iraq. But we didn't voice our opinion. And every single day we were always worried," said his dad, Vernon Swindell, 41, adding that he was "satisfied" with the Army's explanation of his son's death. "I'm proud he did whatever he wanted to do," the father of four said before breaking down. "He did it happily." Nathaniel Swindell graduated in 2000 from Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical School in the Bronx and joined the Army as a way to see the world and find his path, his parents said. Before shipping out to Iraq for the first time in October, he treated his family to a huge summer barbecue of steak, ribs and shrimp at his great-grandmother's house on Long Island. He returned to Fort Lewis in August and married his wife, Sabrina. Hopeful about starting a family one day, Swindell often filled his E-mails with stories about Iraqi children. He even asked his mom to replace the personal items she was sending in care packages with hard candies he could hand out to the kids. "The children really touched his heart," Kim Swindell said. "He said a pat on the head and a piece of candy really calmed the children down during searches." His parents and siblings, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, plan to hold a funeral early next week. They are expecting his body back this week. "He was always there for me," said younger sister Jasmyn Swindell, 22. "He was a good big brother." |
a hard question...must consult a few philosophers before being able to formulate an answer.. no, wait!!!
i have the answer.
kate, i luv ya and all that---but, now, kindly step aside and recognize universally acknowledged and incontrovertibly demonstrable laws of conduct: the man owns the remote..
Uh oh....
hey guys,.
" you say, "no you don't, you mind-controlled idiot.
tell 'em to fark off.
Oh man, I so feel for you. This is just another example of ... /rant ended before it began
My only question for you is: after you all have held the baby once, is that going to be enough? Once you've held the baby you'll fall in love, and never being able to hold the baby again will be worse than if you'd never gotten to do it at all. Are you willing to continue to cave to the elders for continued access to the baby?
Just something to think about. I am SO sorry.
the hospital chaplain just called.
my baby's body has been returned to the hospital following post-mortem examination at a specialist children's hospital.
so, the funeral can go ahead soon.. we have opted for a cremation.
I am so sorry. Please accept my sincere condolences. A baby garden sounds wonderful.
(((HUGS)))
PurpleV
what was your favorite book when you were a child?.
mine was: the giving tree by shel silverstein.
said ickle me, pickel me,tickle me too.
The Princess and the Goblin!!
Then when I was a little older, Jane Eyre.
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"the organization" is one of my favorites.
very "cultish" expression, to me.......and you??
Put On a New Personality
.....at my former sociology-professor's night class, pertaining to cults!!!
i am so honored.
i took 4 soc classes under this most radical and unique (left-wing of course!
Congratulations!! I'm proud of you. (((HUGS)))
heard at a recent circuit assembly: .
repeatedly mentioned the "next world" instead of the "new world" or "new order.
" he used the term once talking about a brother that was awaiting intensive surgery to correct a life threatening condition.
They periodically change terms to weed out apostates and imposters.
