Ep 0 - WHY ARE WE HERE

Hola and welcome to Thursday Night!! A take on the regular ‘church’ (Kingdom Hall) gathering I grew up attending (literally called ‘Meetings’ by Jehovah’s Witnesses), we’re going to delve into pieces by phenomenal authors and thinkers which helped me on my journey to leave an extreme religious upbringing behind and take on a new journey. On the way, we’ll have the occasional guest and go down some deep dark holes too: life, death, uncertainty, and how it feels to navigate the often overwhelming sense of despair and inability to trust new information or beliefs - since having “beliefs” are what you found yourself running from in the first place. It not only gets better - there’s an incredible journey waiting, albeit one where your past and the hard-fought lessons learned can pave the way for a new profundity, a new wisdom, and a new ability to understand our human tendencies and foibles almost from the inside out: You may not have asked for it, but you were given a rare (though insane) life experience, and it has value. We’ll talk about diverse subjects within this framework of “the aftermath” of that experience and how to move forward.