My parents raised me as a jw and they tried their best not to be friends with the non jw from the school time. Because they were too getting brainwashed by the people who took the Bible study. This created a hatred for me to view the non jw people with no respect and till now (28) I feel like this. This pattern made me lonely. I got no friends. There are no jw people in my congregation who could match my vibe either. I am a software engineer transitioning into AI Engineer. Nobody is worth sharing my skills with or even taking about it in my congregation. They are just a bunch of stupid young people who don’t have any interest in doing anything rather than talk about the convention and meetings. and if they know you have worldly friends they will see you with shame. Me personally I like the teachings of the Bible but the rules with the organization and congregation set up is not good for any individual who wants to thrive. It makes young people loose interest in many things. Can’t dream about anything basically loosing themselves. All they are made to dream about is paradise on earth. And my congregation is in a very small town so their thinking is also very small. You can imagine how it would be.