Hello can anyone who has stayed in Kimolos give me advice on best location for accommodation. I won’t have a car so is location closest to the beach better or better in what looks like the township. Thanks in advance.
Despite being awake for a couple of years now, some days I still have so much disbelief and anger at the organisation and at myself for believing for as long as I did that sometimes I don’t know where to put it. So I’ll put it here!
Despite having some non witness friends and a small handful of PIMO friends, whom I am grateful for, I am surrounded by PIMI’s in every other aspect of my family and social life. Early on in my wake up process I made every mistake a PIMO can make and it’s taken a while to recalibrate and take back control of my extremely slow fade, which for the most part has been successful. As long as my spouse remains a believer there will always be some level of involvement for their sake and I am ok with that for now. I keep the “well meaning” PIMI’s at an arms length and they have no choice but to reluctantly fall into line. Goodbye to a lifetime of feeling the need to co-opt my faith and justify my decisions to people who do not understand healthy boundaries.
This morning I woke up with one thought circling my brain and it was the scripture about Jesus returning visibly and I just cannot understand how they managed to brainwash us into believing that he came invisibly in 1914.
This thought led me to thinking that the org literally checks every box used to describe the Pharisees. How did I never see that they ignore every important biblical principle like the Good Samaritan, adult baptism or how they “block the kingdom of god” with their two class system, their unbiblical blood doctrine and the deadly disfellowshipping practice and let’s not forget the good old “no one knows the day or the hour”, ahem 1887, 1914, 1925, 1975, millions now living will never die? They got so much wrong.
Thankfully with time, therapy and lots of self reflection I do intellectually understand why it took me so long to wake up and how the people in my life who in every other area of their lives show intelligence but just can’t seem to see that they’re trapped in a high control belief system. Each of us wake up in our own time but some days the enormity of the intentional manipulation we were trapped in overwhelms me and I have to acknowledge the sadness. I am very appreciative of this sub and I hope you all are doing ok today, if not tomorrow is another day. Freedom of thought and faith has come at a big cost for those of us who have woken up, please be kind to yourselves.