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  Do Sex Offender Laws Go Too Far In SOME Cases?

  by target in

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  a young man of 20 has sex with his willing 17 year old girl friend.

  her parents find out and press charges.

  now he is a sex offender.

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  A young man of 20 has sex with his willing 17 year old girl friend. Her parents find out and press charges. Now he is a sex offender. Five years later he marries and they buy a home and have a baby girl. He is a good husband and father. Someone in the neighborhood does a search for sex offenders and his name comes up. This person starts watching and sees this toddler and reports him. Now the baby has to live with the grandparents and the wife has to divide her time between her parents home with the baby and her own home with her husband. This will go on until the child is 18.They dare not have more children. Oh, and he is not allowed to visit his child.

  Is this sort of thing really what they had in mind when they wrote sex offender laws? This family lives across the street from my son and his family. It is sad to think his entire life is ruined. I would not be surprised if the marriage does not last because of this kind of stress.

  I knew a man who molested friends of his 12 year old daughter.When he got out of jail, he was not allowed to move back home because of the 12 year old. That made sense.He had a sexual interest in 12 year old girls. But this man had no interest in young girls or small children.

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  Thank you Jehovah for answered prayers

  by Annie Over in

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  when i got off for lunch today i decided to go to the walmart deli and get something to eat.

  it is a huge store, groceries, a bakery, mc donalds, a bank , eye center, beauty shop, a great deli, and a huge garden center.

  i had taken back a 80 gig hard drive dvd recorder ( i couldn't figure out how to hook up <smile> and had received 238.00. i picked up a couple of things in the store then went to the deli.

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  Annie

  Welcome! and congrats. I had the exact same thing happen. I lived six miles away and got all the way home before I missed my purse and when I got back to the store, there it was in the cart with the two movies I had rented. It never occurred to me to bring Jehovah into the event because I was too busy cussing myself out for my stupidity. It was the second time I had done that. I am a slow learner........about the purse and Jehovah. But ten years later, here I am still have my purse............

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  Are You Afraid That Armageddon Is Going To Come Since Leaving "The Truth"?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i'm not but i bet that there are some that quiety worry about it.....what about you?

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  NO.

  Don't believe the scriptures that say it is coming either.

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  What is the most stupid thing you ever did?!!!

  by Spectrum in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  btw: excluding joining jwism unless it's too intriguing not to say.

  here's mine: .

  it was in the day when the paraffin man went around selling to those that still had the old paraffin burners to keep their house warm.

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  When my brother's car would not start, he put the tractor behind it, put the tractor in gear and ran around and jumped into the car. The tractor climbed up on the car and tipped over. Boy was he in trouble!

  I never did anything to quite match that one.

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  Soothe Sayings

  by MsMcDucket in

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  after reading john walsh's post, it made me think of things that my mother used to say, like:.

  what you do in the dark will come to light!.

  everything that is known in not told, and everything that's shiny is not gold!.

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  My mother often said that you should not say you can't do something if you have never tried. That had a big affect on me.

  Now my husband gets them all turned around. He has said:

  Balder than an Ace of Spades. That really burned my goat! They have us next to a barrel. Once he pulled the wool from under my eyes.

  The list is long. He has never gotten one right yet. There must be a saying for that, too

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  A bit reluctant

  by saki2fifty in

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  2. friends

  i'm a bit reluctant in writing this post, for i dont feel i should be here.

  even a bit nervous... .

  i've never officially dedicated myself to jehovah, but i was brought up in the truth, very strong, and at times when getting older, there were lulls in my attendance... yet to this day i still attend.

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  I have been following this thread and want to also Welcome Saki and Hummingbird.

  I have been out for 5 years after being in for 30. All those years I was always bothered by "New Light". I would always think to myself "If they are indeed getting it right from Jehovah, then it would be right the first time around. There should never be a need for new light. In the OT there was never new light". But then I would tell myself that it did not matter because this is The Truth. Then one day I asked myself "What IF....... What IF it is NOT the Truth..... What IF.......

  Now I had to know for sure and so the researching started. I found much more than I asked for. I came on this board just in time for the UN exposure. The rest is history.

  There is nothing wrong with looking for proof.

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  Demographics Poll - Age of JWD members - Anonymous Voting

  by Mysterious in

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  this started in another thread actually and i decided to put one up.

  hopefully you don't bury the thread before those that were interested get to see the trends.

  voting is totally anonymous and it is hosted totally anonymously.

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  I'm in

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  Tarot readers

  by PrimateDave in

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  i'm new to tarot.

  i just got a hanson-roberts (similar to rider-waite-smith) tarot deck last week, and i have been getting familiar with the cards.

  i also got a book, the complete tarot by teresa michelsen.

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  Dave

  I play around with the Tarot, but I am also a big believer in gut feelings. My gut feeling concerning your question is a very strong NO. This is not the right time. I believe the card is telling you that you have wishful thinking concerning the letter, but either it will not benefit to do it now or it will be harmful to you to do it now. Patience. The time is not quite yet.

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  Dead loved one calls home

  by Steve Lowry in

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  2. friends

  today, while at doctors appointment i met a lady in the waiting room and i just wanted to relay her story.

  she was eighty-two years old and sharp as a tack.

  we were exchanging pleasantries while waiting our turn to get in when she told about her four children.

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  My sister's oldest daughter died in a horrific accident two years ago. Some months later my sister became aware of her daughter's presence and sat down to focus on it and heard her daughter say "Hi Mom". She talked with her for awhile and her daughter continued to come visit every so often. During one visit the daughter said that someone close to the daughter was going to be crossing over soon. The next week the daughter's best friend passed away and now the two of them come to visit together. Those visits make it possible for my sister to live with the way her daughter died. Her daughter was walking with a friend late at night on the freeway ramp and was hit by a car from behind and thrown into the air and came down on the freeway right in front of a car. It has been two years and the visits continue.

  I had a "visit" from a friend's mother who I had not seen for over 25 years. Her name was Beth but in the visit, she insisted her name was Rosemary. I looked her obit up on the internet and it said her name was Rosemary Elizabeth.

  Once you become open to this sort of thing, it happens more and more and it can make the unbearable pain of losing a loved one a bit more bearable.

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  stuff i think about...

  by bluebeads in

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  ->is it fair/just/loving that innocent children be punished for their parent's wrongdoings etc...?

  a passage from the new book released @ the dc p.131-2.

  "(malachi 4:1) in that day of accounting, young children (boughs) will be dealt with justly according to jehovah's assessment of their parents (roots), who are responsible for minor children.

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  Here is some stuff to think about:

  Since Jesus said you should love your enemies, does that mean he has to love Satan?

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