Posts by nowisee

when i was first new to jwd i posed the question, rather naively, "what do you think of homosexuality?" i did not think much about it -- it was simply something that i had wondered about and having new contact with other xjws for the first time in decades wanted feedback from others who had gone through similar experiences. ------------i asked the question in the morning and when i checked in at noontime (or something like that), there were EIGHT pages on the thread!

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Euthanasia for humans, is it right or wrong?

by FreedomFrog in

ok guys, i'm working on a 1500 word paper for my communications class and it's due in about 7 weeks.

i'm collecting information for my paper.

how do you feel about legalizing assisted suicides for people?

nowisee

seems there are several issues: l) doctors do not know everything and even when a person may seem to be terminal they may not be. a case in point is a sister i knew many years (35?) ago. she had ovarian cancer and doctors gave her 6 months to live. she decided not to die and tried many alternative therapies with help from her family. i bumped into her brother a few years ago and she is/was still alive at least 30 years later with still a low-grade cancer but maintained with meds................ there are many such reported cases. 2) legalizing euthanasia seems to open the way for too many ambiguities. what would the criteria be? severe pain? terminal cancer? herniated disc? alzheimers? how can this be controlled? perhaps decriminalization would make more sense if the dying person's wishes are absolutely clear and publicly known and they are of sound mind. ----------------------------anyone hear of the recent case in tri-state area? a woman who was severely depressed drove off a mountain with her two children in backseat as her husband ostensibly got out to take a picture. she apparently locked the doors and stepped on the gas and plummeted down the mountain as her husband tried to stop the vehicle. he has been charged with assisting her suicide. (both children survived as they were belted in.)

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was my first husband a pedophile?

by nowisee in

some pretty strange things happened approaching the end of my marriage and my exit from jws:

1) it was the time of the new elder arrangement.

my husband (the ex-bethelite) was being considered for elder.

nowisee

i think when he mentioned his attraction to these 2 young girls, it was with some surprise on his part too. maybe he was just starting to form his thoughts about it. he said it smiling and laughing. are pedophiles such from the getgo (like homosexuals claim), or is it something that forms over time, gradually gaining strength as one gets older?

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was my first husband a pedophile?

by nowisee in

some pretty strange things happened approaching the end of my marriage and my exit from jws:

1) it was the time of the new elder arrangement.

my husband (the ex-bethelite) was being considered for elder.

nowisee

mkr -- as mentioned i don't know where he is or even if he is alive. i have googled his name out of curiosity but nothing comes up. but i am absolutely sure of what he said and i remember it clear as day -- probably bc it struck me as so odd, even somewhat humorous at the time. i think i am very sensitive about slandering him unjustly (even though no one even knows who I am). look how long it took me to even raise the question.---------------------robdar - yes, i guess he did. still hard to believe.-----------------------tex - how are you? i haven't been around much but when i think of you it is always with respect and good wishes. -- strange you should mention "form of insanity". his family also, without details, was also not "normal". also alcohol was a growing problem for him -- home from work at 3:30 or so, in bed passed out at 4:30. -- i guess i was really young and stupid (also dealing with my own personal issues). -- my strongest hope is that he never acted out with children and that somehow it was contained. -- i will never know, but all this helps me to make sense of my own life experience. thanks all.

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was my first husband a pedophile?

by nowisee in

some pretty strange things happened approaching the end of my marriage and my exit from jws:

1) it was the time of the new elder arrangement.

my husband (the ex-bethelite) was being considered for elder.

nowisee

i guess i felt compelled to ask the question here because i never really have asked anyone. maybe i wanted to have my suspicions validated by those who could look at it objectively. it makes me wonder if you can ever really know another person. my first husband, by all appearances to those outside (until that fateful day) was that he was totally together, teacher, mature, theocratic, loving, etc. etc. he had his groupies at the kh, i.e. people loved his public talks and attendance at them was always overflowing. the outcome of everything, was shocking to all. people are easily fooled or maybe they just believe what they want to believe. i was married to "the stranger".

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was my first husband a pedophile?

by nowisee in

some pretty strange things happened approaching the end of my marriage and my exit from jws:

1) it was the time of the new elder arrangement.

my husband (the ex-bethelite) was being considered for elder.

nowisee

lee, now i am laughing after reading your entire answer (if laughing is possible when dealing with such a serious subject). at first the only answer that came thru under your name was "no". computer acting strangely. thanks. actually, in hindsight and after so much time has passed and given me different perspective, i actually could believe that he was dealing with problems of perversion. then i don't think there was any room in my thinking of such a possibility. i don't even know if i realized that such a possibility existed. i was so young and naive.

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was my first husband a pedophile?

by nowisee in

some pretty strange things happened approaching the end of my marriage and my exit from jws:

1) it was the time of the new elder arrangement.

my husband (the ex-bethelite) was being considered for elder.

nowisee

biker -- i really don't know. i just wonder. things between us were definitely not "normal" -- ever. with all of the revelations of the last few years about coverups in the wts it has definitely raised the question. as for alerting people about him, i have no clue where he is (just the last state he was reportedly in) and really i think too much time has passed for my input to be relevant. but sometimes i look back and i know there were missing pieces to the puzzle. and i always wonder what were the things i didn't know. lee - i thought you might answer. i thought you might give me more analysis. your answer surprised me. best wishes, nowisee p.s. since new computer i can't seem to form paragraphs!

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OMG... Connie Chung...

by Elsewhere in

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words cannot describe this little video connie recently made.... just see for yourself:.

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=tcozkfpbmaa&eurl=http%3a//www.drudgereport.com/&iurl=http%3a//sjl-static6.sjl.youtube.com/vi/tcozkfpbmaa/2.jpg&t=oegstopdsklbglcw64g8nzgqh_hrhiv8.

she's almost adorable in how clumsy she is.

nowisee

what in the world was that all about? i caught the show on sat. and thought she was just getting out all of her stuff before her final swan song. bizarre.