With the ongoing 'new light' and updates from the Governing Body, speculation about future changes is common. What do you expect is going to be next?
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What specific doctrinal shift, policy update (like beards or broadcasting), or organizational change did they seemingly intend to bring you back, but instead became a critical turning point that solidified your decision to leave?
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The Kingdom Hall was a place for some truly unforgettable comments. What's the most outrageous, bizarre, or unintentionally hilarious comment you ever heard at a JW meeting or in the ministry, and what was the reaction?
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During a porn topic in the hall, only another brother and I commented—perhaps too knowledgeably
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Attention: Teen PIMOs who are thinking of leaving w/o a plan on how to upgrade your imprinted mental operating system. It's not just physical escape; It's more subtle than that. It's metaphysical, psychological, epistemic, mental. You escape the crocs, prepare for the piranhas in the murky waters.
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How did your PIMI goals change after waking up? Do you want to get married now? Do you want to have kids now?
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So I felt like a useless vet reintegrating into society again.
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I found out from my still-PIMI sibling that my former PIMI friend had died and no one knew how he died. I don't want to laugh about it...
Last time I checked this PIMI had AIDS; Now he's blind.
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A Bethel Elder once told me: "Do you think all in Bethel are angels?..."
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The elder who studied with me was a doctor.
Can't seem to escape my PIMI past
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What is the GB's stand on seeing a professional for clinical depression? If it recommends consulting with a therapist, doesn't that wake up others, perhaps reasoning within themselves that after all, prayers can only do so much?
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Now that you have abandoned the Watchtower's making sense of existence and its hidden assumptions about the Scriptures and the First Cause, how is your sense-making now?
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The Best Girlfriend I Never Had
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I now over eat, over sleep, over masturbate, over watch porn, indulge indulge indulge. Everything seems uninteresting; Nothing seems to drive me anymore. Could it be that there is no more Jehovah who watches over me? Is my current psychological development so stunted that I need God to spur me on?
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The Anger That Never Leaves
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My current understanding of worldviews (religious, scientism [not the scientific method], and mysticism): It's not the data/facts/evidence that inform the worldview; it's the lens through which data is interpreted. It's not the object outside world; it's the inner workings of the beautiful mind.
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Life Now Is A Joke
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They're conducting a study behind us at a Starucks
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Why you can almost never persuade a PIMI. The following is based on Willard Van Orman Quine's work called Holism in Science in view of cult fanatics. Quine was a philosopher and logician in the analytics tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century."
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I used JW skills to escape JW (finances, social skills, love)
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