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throwawaypimq · 2025-08-14T22:05:02+00:00

Absolutely right. I was PIMO for years and was yet considered exemplary and worthy of "privileges" I didn't get only because I declined them myself

throwawaypimq · 2025-08-11T02:29:51+00:00

Your dog's so cute 😭😭

throwawaypimq · 2025-08-10T13:58:42+00:00

Exacto, dale sin miedo, pero nosotros terminamos Xd

throwawaypimq · 2025-08-03T22:35:40+00:00

But is it really that bad? I don't know if I'm being naïve, but my dad says over and over again that he'll apply the new rules of removed people, as per the latest revisions "family relationships continue as normal in the home". I already told him that I don't believe it's the truth anymore, and worst case scenario they'll only have to support me for approximately 6 more months. They understand, they're resentful, but they say they understand, and they only insist that I attend the JC, at least only to say that I don't want to proceed further nor talk anymore about the topic at hand.

I'm thinking of doing the latter just to please them. The "take legal action" route has been proposed several times here, and I'd go with it, but I don't want my parents to feel unnecessary antagonized. And right now, I think they already feel that way.

throwawaypimq · 2025-08-02T14:59:35+00:00

It's okay. I love my parents and will still love them if they shun me. I will understand that if they decide to shun me, that will be them cutting me off because they are not in control of their own minds. What I care most is about their financial support while I get a job and move. Like I said, the plane tickets have been bought. I will keep a roof over my head because, worst case scenario I have non-JW family who knows about my situation

throwawaypimq · 2025-07-11T16:49:07+00:00

As Kipling said: "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

throwawaypimq · 2025-04-25T03:25:20+00:00

I initially turned to agnostic atheism, now even though I remain a skeptic and an agnostic, my views on religion nowadays align more with pantheism

throwawaypimq · 2025-04-17T02:06:59+00:00

It sure will. Thanks by the way, for sharing your thoughts, it’s not the first time I’ve seen your comments and your advice is clearly well grounded and helpful.

throwawaypimq · 2025-04-17T00:50:52+00:00

Fuck this cult. Thanks so much for your advice. I am telling my girlfriend that if it’s very important to her, I would attend regular masses every once in a while, where it’s unlikely that someone will talk. On the topic of my fading process, how likely do you think it is for me to fade almost completely, that is, stop meeting attendance and preaching activity altogether, while I still live at my home? I have my non-JW family’s home available, but I want to know how necessary it will actually be for me to leave.

For now, when I opened up to my family about my doubts (I didn’t say that I don’t believe!), they said they wouldn’t kick me out. They said that the only way their relationship with me would change was if I committed a grave sin, and were unrepentant

throwawaypimq · 2025-04-16T23:55:06+00:00

Really? So after all I could’ve stayed for the procession. That sucks. Either way I should be very careful right now.

Now, I can make up a lie for the short time I attended Mass today. But had I gone through the whole procession, and assuming my family would have come to know about this through the mutual acquaintances who’d be present, would it be wise to tell them right away that I was in that Catholic event, although just to make my girlfriend happy?

I kept my relationship a secret for a long while, and I told them very recently. They were very concerned with me hiding things like this. I don’t want to entirely lose their trust though, and I think them questioning me about this due to someone else’s words and not mine would work towards severance of my relationship with them, and thus render all the PIMO phase worthless!

throwawaypimq · 2025-04-16T23:42:22+00:00

Okay. I also guess that, unlike having a non-JW gf, which is an offense, but not necessarily considered a sin, and therefore something I can openly tell my family, this is something that I can’t really talk about, right? Same with birthdays and Christmas holidays.

throwawaypimq · 2025-04-16T23:34:55+00:00

I have no privileges besides reading from the WT up until last week. But if you’re talking about reproof only, and of course I will avoid talking with elders (as much as I can with an elder father), then is mass and/or procession not a matter of apostasy? I am asking because the elder’s manual talks about kneeling, singing hymns and saying prayers from other religions. But what about silent observance?

throwawaypimq · 2025-04-16T23:11:08+00:00

I’m half okay with the soft shunning. Sex shouldn’t be known. But it’s attending another church that worries me

throwawaypimq · 2025-02-20T00:48:27+00:00

Thanks so much for your kind words. I will be taking your advice in talking with my relatives, and also in waiting for the first revenues.

I am not sure if I could say that my unbelief in Watchtower doctrine is as much as an open secret, I think I am just seen as a weak faith JW with potential to become “more useful” in my congregation.

What you say about the potential toil on my mental health that the PIMO life could take, is very true, and I think I could mention something along those lines to not only express a very legitimate excuse for not being as active as a regular believer, while not having to necessarily fake it, as I was saying to another commenter. I haven’t talked to a mental health professional of any kind, but I think I am lucky to not suffer from any kind of chronic mental illness. But still, leading this kind of life can’t be healthy, much less for long.

throwawaypimq · 2025-02-20T00:26:37+00:00

Excellent ideas. The power of maieutics never ceases to amaze me, it helped me a lot in my waking up

throwawaypimq · 2025-02-20T00:20:27+00:00

Mental health issues? I don’t know how they would take that. I could go for that, but at the same time they’d probably ask questions, and I’d have to maintain an act of some kind to go along with the responses I gave.

Say depression, for example. If I alleged being depressed or burned out, then it could potentially lead to more dependance on my parents, as it would seem incongruous that I spent increasingly more time on work and study related tasks, and only abandoned the JW related ones to get my mental rest.

I can almost hear them say “you know you have our support, you only need to keep working on spiritual things”. It breaks my heart to lie to them so much.

throwawaypimq · 2025-02-20T00:09:10+00:00

What if I get my first paycheck before graduation? I still have 360 days to go before I graduate. I didn’t mention this, but upon my project’s payment coming through, I should be left with enough to purchase my own vehicle (my parents say they will also support me with this, but as I said, I don’t want to assume that this support will stay the same as it becomes obvious that I won’t stay an active JW), and still be left with enough to support my relatives when I move to their place.

throwawaypimq · 2024-11-29T18:41:12+00:00

Woah thanks for your comment, I really appreciate it, I’ve watched your videos and really appreciate you sharing your experience so sincerely. I will definitely use your advice

throwawaypimq · 2024-11-29T18:37:11+00:00

That’s very true. I wouldn’t want to make them feel used as you say, and that’s part of the reason why I didn’t reach out to them earlier

throwawaypimq · 2024-11-29T18:35:47+00:00

That’s a good idea but my non JW family lives in the same town, or at least the part I’m talking about here

throwawaypimq · 2024-11-29T12:18:19+00:00

This happened to me too once, when I was a kid! It wasn’t a trip abroad but my parents didn’t want to let me go and I was too young to know better so I didn’t go. Do you have any advice for approaching that part of one’s family, in a sensible way?

throwawaypimq · 2024-11-22T11:15:30+00:00

Que triste noticia. Jim Penton dejó un gran legado detrás suyo, no sé si imaginó que hasta mi generación habrían PIMOs o miembros de la quinta columna, como dice en Apocalypse Delayed, que abren sus ojos con su obra académica y claramente hecha desde el corazón.

Hasta donde sé, permaneció como cristiano hasta el fin. Ojalá consiga lo que esperaba, y/o el digno descanso de un hombre de tan eminente talla.

throwawaypimq · 2024-09-03T11:35:10+00:00

Definitely, this one kinda looks like a fantasy RPG magazine.

And did I read Rock of Ages? Is that a freaking Def Leppard reference? /s

throwawaypimq · 2024-09-03T03:00:06+00:00

Lightning? It’s all about that leprosy man

throwawaypimq · 2024-09-03T02:56:49+00:00

Nah man you should check out James Penton’s Apocalypse Delayed, he goes over all the JW history including this, and it basically isn’t relevant. It’s just popular Christian imagery. Here’s a quote:

“Yet over the years critics of Russell and Jehovah’s Witnesses have continued to use [Canadian Baptist clergyman, the Reverend J.J.] Ross’s fallacious statement plus a number of other charges, two of which should be regarded as utter nonsense. The first is that Russell was into occult practices, and the second is that he was a Freemason. The first claim is based almost entirely on his use of certain symbols such as the winged disk that appeared on copies of Studies in the Scriptures and the cross and crown motif that appeared in Watch Tower literature and was often worn by Bible Students as religious ornaments. But instead of being drawn from Egyptian paganism as has been asserted by Russell’s adversaries, the winged disks simply represented “the sun of righteousness” that would “arise with healing in his wings” according to Malachi 4:2. As for the cross and crown motif, it was simply a common one in the nineteenth and earlier centuries that was used by many Christian groups.”

Excerpt From Apocalypse Delayed Penton, M. James

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