JM still in the house-building business? He sure did a crappy job on my uncle's house. They had to sue him to get him to finish the punch list of all the crappy things that were wrong when they moved in... things like broken trim, broken tile, holes in walls, broken concrete, roof shingles loose... He's a crook, why should anyone be surprised that he started dating while he was still standing on his wife's grave?
Posts by Odrade
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33X-Wife Got Married Yesterday........Our Son is Shunned Today!
by new boy inmy wife left me 5 years ago when i left the jehovah's witnesses.
she got remarried saturday to one of "our" old jehovah's witness friends jay .
jay's wife, judy died 6 months ago of cancer.
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update on my divorce situation
by depressed ini'm shocked!
if you remember my experience, in a nutshell, basically my ex-bethelite ex pioneer husband cheated on me with an older "worldly woman" from his job and left me suddenly.
i had no idea that we had trouble with our marriage, however, when i discovered the love letters from the other woman, he moved out, and a week after that, i received divorce papers.
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Odrade
Your words:
"So I composed the online journal and forwarded the link to his co-workers, so that they can all see that he's involved with the older woman there. In the journal, I spilled out all of the office secrets, including who's gay, etc, and I copied and pasted the love emails that the other woman wrote to my husband, and forwarded the link to his entire office."
"All of the office secrets." Get help. You're sick.
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She asked for money
by noontide ini went to visit my parents last night.
id been there for about 10 minutes when my mother looks at me and asks if i can give her 20 dollars.
sure, no problem.
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Odrade
I'll be the dissenting "yes." Your mom wants to be generous with the "special" speaker. It sounds like this speaker is not the traveling overseer, but rather someone who was invited specially from Bethel to give their "special talk."
These guys are not making a haul, not traveling first class, and probably have agreed at considerable expense to themselves if the congregation is not a rich one. (Probably even if they are a rich one.)My parents accepted these "invitations" a few times, and always went back to Bethel hundreds of $ poorer than before they accepted. Usually they get their airfare paid for (or mostly. My parents were asked if they had airmiles, which they did, so the congregation expected them to use their miles, which they WERE going to use for vacation.) Usually they get to stay at somebody's house and sleep on an air mattress (whoopee!), and they get taken out to some crappy-assed family restaurant or go to "potluck" after the talk. But nobody really helps them with eating expenses for the travel days, car rental (if needed,) eating expenses for the rest of their stay- usually an additional day or two. This isn't the cushy job that being a C.O. can be. The guys who take these talks, some of them, are the good ones... the ones that sacrifice because they think they are doing it for God.
Your mom sounds like she has a generous spirit, and she wants to help somebody else who quite possibly has a generous spirit. Yes, they're in a rotten stinkhole of a cult, but they're people.
If you decide to not give her the $20, (which is not much all things considered,) please just tell her you're not comfortable passing your money through to a group you can't support. But don't play the little "i forgot" game. She's doing it out of love for her "brothers." That's really what it's all about.
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HELP with baby boy names! Contest!
by Jez inwe are having a boy and can't decide on names.
we want something a little different, not in 'the top 10'.
it also has to be english or german orgin.
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Odrade
Reason number eleventy-jillion I will not be having children... it took us 2-1/2 months just to name the damn dog! (We named him "murphy", but mostly we call him "spawn," as in: of Satan.)
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The Need To Question Atheism
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } .style2 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: #0000cc; } .style3 {font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #0000cc; } --> the need to question atheism this need to question atheism stems from the fact there are some individuals.
on this board that subscribe to such.
the questions stated are not for some.
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Odrade
::::This is why Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds to walk the earth, believed that God existed and is responsible for these outstanding features that we humans are aware of at present.:::
Wrong. Albert Einstein admitted that the way certain things occurred made a good argument for the possibility of a creator, but he acknowledged that he, personally, did not believe it was so. Look it up. This "Albert Einstein believed in God, and he was brilliant," story has been around for so long... all grown out of a very selective quotation that distorted his intention.
Vinny, you present a lot of beliefs, but not a single fact. There is a difference. You present your faith as if it is substantive rather than emotive. You believe because you can not imagine feeling otherwise, you do not believe because FACT A led to FACT B, which lead you to another FACT C, leading finally to factual proof of god's existence.
You know, when my next door neighbor's kid was little, he believed in the Easter Bunny, and he believed in Santa Claus. Why? because the chocolate and the presents magically showed up in his home, and he could not imagine any other way they could have possibly gotten there, without the help of these beings. He had proof, and he believed. There's nothing wrong with that, but at some point a person has to grow enough so they can recognize faith for faith, and facts for facts. The fact is, your incomprehension of how the organisms on earth came to be is not proof of a creator, it is simply incomprehension.
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Eulogy of an Atheist
by DJK ineulogy of an atheist may be the title of the book i'm writing.
in it will be my personal prayer lacking notations of god and jesus.
i wish it could become a well known piece that many may choose to have read when they pass away.. my question to an atheist is this.
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Odrade
Problem is, atheism is not a religious ideal, it is simply descriptive of not believing in gods. I suppose the beauty of doing the eulogy for non-theist/non-religious individual is, instead of talking about the individual's religion, you get to talk about the individual.
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I think I did a really bad thing.
by emilyblue ini do not attend the same hall as my boyfriend because he is currently reproved for being involved with me.
i'm not a witness.
he confessed to his elders that he had sex with someone outside of marriage after his second divorce was already final.
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Odrade
p.s. you can make paragraphs by putting this in: [p], except change the [ for an angle bracket. (can't make the sign because I get an error message)
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I think I did a really bad thing.
by emilyblue ini do not attend the same hall as my boyfriend because he is currently reproved for being involved with me.
i'm not a witness.
he confessed to his elders that he had sex with someone outside of marriage after his second divorce was already final.
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Odrade
Emily, sorry about your little dog. I hear it happens like that sometimes with "bug-eyed" breeds.
I'm very, very glad you broke up with this abuser. Stay away. Now I'm going to tell you something very seriously. Be careful. He sounds like a powder keg. The first weeks after breaking up with such an unstable person can be very dangerous. If he follows you, calls you repeatedly, shows up at your work or comes around and tries to get into your home, document it, and call the police. Get a restraining order. Move. Whatever it takes.
My aunties best friend has a dead daughter because nobody believed her ex-boyfriend would really hurt her.
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I am getting a tattoo on Friday!
by Crumpet injust thought i'd do something i always wanted too.
mr c always said he's dump me if i had a tattoo, well we're not together anymore so i can and i am!
richie or those in the know - how much pain can i expect to look forward to?.
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Odrade
Wanderer, I got my ears pierced 24 years ago, my navel pierced 13 years ago, and a tattoo on my calf a year ago. I still like them all and am glad I did it. What makes you think a person can't make a decision about personal ornamentation and remain happy with it?
Good for you Crumpet! Make sure the design is one you love, that you don't "settle," and most of all, if the tattoo artist designs something that looks different from what you have in your mind, make sure you absolutely love it MORE than your original idea before you let him ink it.
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Poor, poor Crabby Pants
by Frannie Banannie indisclaimer: if you're offended by discussions of personal finances, move along.
it's about dealing with someone who's only cookin' on 2.5 burners.
this is just sad, so get out yer kleeniex boxes and hankies....... as yall know, crabby pants bought himself a corvette to share the garage with his ford f150.
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Odrade
You know what's funny Frannie? This exact same scam just came through on my email as I was reading your post, except it's POWERBALL I won. hehe.