ABOUT POST-MCGI SOCIETY

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Post-MCGI Society is a community-led project under the MCGI Exiters movement. We publish research, testimonies, and practical tools that help members spot control, set boundaries, and plan a safe exit at their own pace—fast, slow, or quietly, depending on what their life allows.

 

Many people stay even after faith weakens because leaving is expensive socially. Family conflict, reputation, housing, friendships, and work connections can all be on the line. So we treat exit as a process, not a one-time “walk out.” Our work goes beyond exposing problems. We help people rebuild life after MCGI—identity, relationships, routines, and stability.

 

MISSION

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We exist to make exit thinkable, safer, and less lonely.

We do that by turning private confusion into clear language, and clear language into practical steps: how to set limits without blowing up your family, how to reduce free labor without being guilt-tripped back into compliance, how to document what happened without turning your life into an endless court case in your head, and how to reconnect with ordinary life when the system no longer owns your weekends.

We don’t ask people to trade one rigid identity for another. We aim for something simpler: agency, dignity, and a future not managed by fear.

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OUR FRAMEWORKS 

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Organic Intellectuals

 

MCGI often doesn’t match the classic “cult” stereotype. It looks respectable, and it carries public legitimacy built through charity. That legitimacy makes criticism feel cruel and makes doubt feel like a moral failure. But a respectable image can still hide a high-control system. In the post-founder era, MCGI increasingly works like a labor system: constant tasks, constant campaigns, constant pressure to give time, money, and effort. Many anti-cult explanations don’t capture this well. That’s why we publish our own research, rooted in insider knowledge and careful translation into usable language.

 

The Great Collapse Thesis

 

“The Great Collapse” is a sustainability idea, not a calendar prediction. As MCGI shifted toward visible services and nonstop operations to preserve legitimacy, it also increased its dependence on steady inputs—donations and unpaid labor. When volunteers burn out, donations soften, trust drops, or inequality becomes obvious, the strain becomes financial and operational. Fewer hands means fewer outputs; fewer outputs weakens the image the system relies on.

 

Engineered Volunteerism

 

A choice isn’t fully free if saying no has penalties. Engineered volunteerism is consent shaped by pressure: fear of shame, fear of judgment, fear of losing standing, fear of conflict. In that setup, service becomes a tax paid in time and energy. The burden often lands hardest on students, working parents, and low-income members, while those with more status carry lighter loads. Our tools focus on what members can actually do: set boundaries, reduce harm, and exit safely when it becomes possible.

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WHAT WE PUBLISH

 

Research and Working Papers

 

We publish socio-economic and organizational analysis of MCGI’s post-founder era: the shift toward performative services, the dependence on unpaid labor, the widening lifestyle gap, and the ways legitimacy is maintained even as internal morale declines. We write in a way that ordinary readers can follow, without sacrificing conceptual clarity.

 

Testimonies and Case Narratives

 

We publish lived accounts—from exiters, closet members, families, and former workers—because institutions look clean in public and messy in private. Testimonies show the “how” of control: the daily pressures, the subtle penalties, the slow erosion of choice.

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Practical Tools

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We publish templates and guides: boundary scripts, exit planning checklists, documentation practices, and “reduce harm now” strategies for people who cannot leave yet. Think of it as survival knowledge—meant to be used, not merely admired.

 

Public Education Content

 

We also release short-form materials for social media: primers, explainers, and visual frameworks that help people identify coercion and extractive labor without needing a graduate seminar to name it.

 

EDITORIAL STANDARDS

 

We care about credibility because credibility protects people. We separate claims from interpretations. A dated statement, a record, a screenshot, or a consistent pattern across multiple testimonies counts differently than a single emotional account. We treat testimony as real evidence of lived experience, but we also avoid turning it into sweeping claims that can’t be defended.

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We write with a bias for clarity. If an idea can’t survive plain language, it’s probably not as true as it feels.

We also recognize that people inside and outside MCGI read our work. So we avoid the cheap thrill of insults and focus on mechanisms: incentives, control systems, labor extraction, and the social penalties that keep people stuck. When we criticize, we do it in a way that can be checked.

 

SAFETY AND ANONYMITY

 

We treat safety as non-negotiable. Many contributors cannot go public without risking family rupture, work consequences, harassment, or coordinated character attacks. So we support anonymity and careful redaction. We encourage people to remove identifying details and to share only what they can stand behind without putting their life at risk.

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We do not pressure closet members to reveal themselves. Staying hidden is not cowardice; it’s often strategy. Quiet boundary-setting, selective non-compliance, and gradual disengagement can be the safest path, especially when your closest relationships still run through the institution.

We also don’t treat doxxing, harassment, or baiting as activism. If the goal is freedom, the method can’t be another form of control.

 

WHO THIS IS FOR

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If you already left and you’re rebuilding, we’re for you.

If you’re still inside but quietly tired, still afraid, still calculating risk, we’re for you.

If you’re a family member trying to understand why someone can’t “just leave,” we’re for you too.

Freedom isn’t only a belief change. It’s a social and economic change. We work on the parts people usually ignore—because those are the parts that trap people.