Topics Started by Bonsai

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A troubling visit with a satisfying end.
by Bonsai in
1. jw
2. experiences
so, i've been out for 2 years now.

just picked up and walked away from the wacky religion that tried to control every part of my life through fear and guilt.

i've been wondering as the months go by what would happen when an elder finally showed up at my door and pressed the issue as to why i ceased all activity and then tried to reactivate me.
Massive earthquakes in southern Japan
by Bonsai in
1. jw
2. experiences
a strong 6.2 earthquake a few days ago in southern japan was followed by a magnitude 7.3 quake this morning in nearly the same area.

looks like a war zone there.

thankfully, i don't live in the area where the earthquakes and aftershocks are occurring.
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai in
1. jw
2. friends
time to take a break from debating religion.

take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
4
Warwick - My Retirement Home
by Bonsai in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i'm tired.

i dedicated the majority of my life to the whims of seven men who live in an ivory tower.

i've heard recently that they are about to finish a new retirement home in beautiful, rural upstate new york.
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Which bible character do you hate the most?
by Bonsai in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the more i think about it, the more i feel an extreme dislike for the apostle paul.

he was on par with hitler in his treatment of the jews before he "saw the light".

he replaced jesus teachings of love and mercy with a more legalistic, pharisaical concept of devotion to god.. any evil person can come to believe in god and worship him if the scales were literally and miraculously removed from his eyes.
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Global attack On Religion
by Bonsai in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
witnesses on facebook are salivating over this atlanta-journal constitution newspaper article.. http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-atlanta-journal-constitution/20151015/281479275254108/textview.
2
Anybody live in or coming to Japan?
by Bonsai in
1. jw
2. friends
i wish i had some fellow ex-jdubs to shoot the shat with.

it's lonely out here when all the people i know are stuck in the borg.
20
Grandchildren pay for the sins of their parents.
by Bonsai in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my wife's mother just related to us an interview she heard during the recent three day convention that she just had to share with us.

a brother and his wife have, for over 20 years, shunned their daughter because she ran off and eloped with a worldly guy.

while openly sobbing, he related how difficult it has been to shun his daughter and avoid unnecessary contact with her and her family.
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Resistance is NOT futile!
by Bonsai in
1. jw
2. experiences
all i want from this life is to be able to wash windows at bethel.. my story.. when i was fresh out of high school and pioneering, i said those exact words to my friends and family.

all i wanted to do was be at the core of the organization where it was the safest.

i gleefully told people that i'd gladly spend the rest of my life washing windows, waiting tables, doing laundry or cleaning bathrooms.
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How do you manage to keep JW friendships after you left the organization?
by Bonsai in
1. jw
2. friends
it seems incredibly difficult.

those who leave the org.

(or fade) no longer have anything in common with jehovah's witnesses, nor do they want to stick around to get radiated by the fear and guilt that saturates every aspect of a witnesses' life.. i've lost all but one of my jw friends quite simply because i can no longer condone the evil things that they condone.