The New Heretics – Details, episodes & analysis

In Part 3 of our series Being PIMQ, we rank doubts and conditions for doubting that Jehovah’s Witnesses may encounter from time to time. Our top tier doubts may surprise you — they surprised us as we went through topics like the authority of the Governing Body, the blood transfusion doctrine, disfellowshipping, mistreatment, and many more.

In Part 2 of “Being PIMQ,” Logo and Nick discuss a bit of JW news followed by an in-depth recounting of the doubts that ultimately proved too much for them to overcome.

13:13 — Logo’s waking up story

1:06:42 — Nick’s waking up story

A wide-ranging chat with JW Instagram meme artist @1914Hoax aka April [The Apostate] about life as a 5th-generation Jehovah’s Witness, pioneering, the fading process, dating, relationships, disturbing service anecdotes, and much more. Please check out April’s Insta for creative, aesthetically pleasing apostate memes!

In part one of Being PIMQ (Physically In, Mentally Questioning), Nick and Logo dive into the notion of doubt. Where does it come from, how does one begin to doubt, and what does that process of questioning look like? From cognitive dissonance to philosophical investigations, what is it like for one to question their own deeply held truths?

In part 2, Logo and Nick scrutinize Jehovah’s Witnesses’ claim that they are the one true Christian religion and, if so, where were they for 1800 years?

Topics include sola scriptura, apostolic succession, theological baggage, and a new Heretical Haiku.

On this episode, Nick and Logo discuss the heavily contentious topic of, “Are Jehovahs Witnesses Christian?” We discuss the differences between a Cult and other Religious groups, and how that impacts their public reception and the impact on individual members lives.

Nick and Logo discuss the the different aspects that make something a “Cult”. From the BITE model to the Pop-Culture Understanding of Cult like behaviors and Aesthetics, they go into the nitty gritty details of what makes something “Culty”.

Welcome to The New Heretics Podcast. A podcast made for Ex-cult victims trying to reconstruct their lives and worldview after their reconversion. Join Nick and Logo as they discuss the plans for this show as well as some of their upbringing and background.

Scott R. Jones joined the podcast to discuss his new auto-fictional novel Drill, a darkly humous and raw story of a mailman who dares to fight God. We discuss the damage caused by growing up as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, how memetic viruses manifest themselves in reality, and what can be done to combat them — and at what cost?

Buy your copy of Drill today.

Nick and Logo are joined by business executive and mindfulness enjoyer Patrick Butler to discuss his deconversion process out of fundamentalist Christianity and what he's taken from Buddhist thought.

Specific information about mindfulness practice begins around the 1:48:00 mark. Other helpful resources mentioned in the conversation:

"When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron https://a.co/d/ctoTbZF

Jack Kornfield https://jackkornfield.com/

Thich Nhat Hanh https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh