Dryas

This is about my relationship with my parents. My parents are your traditional, God-fearing stage blue conservatives. I myself have of course outgrown all of that but this means that I have to interact with people that are fundamentally living in different realities. Thing is, I’m aware that I’ll have to tell them about this at one point or another and I know it’ll cause them a lot of emotional distress and so to deal with that what I’ve done - or at least tried to do - is to emotionally distance myself with them as much as possible. This seemed like a good route to take but it also means that they begin to worry about me, view me as cold and uncaring and all that. I obviously can’t explain to them why from my point of view this is actually something selfless that will/might benefit them in the long run. As of lately, however, I’m beginning to think whether or not my entire approach is wrong. Maybe this isn’t the best strategy to deal with the inevitable emotional pain that comes when the truth about me is told ?? So I’m looking for advice. Thanks.

It's possible. No, they would make my life miserable if I told them. I know my mother at least would be destroyed if I told her because I've asked how she'd react if I wasn't a believer anymore.

@creator20 No, I’m not simply doing that because of the difference. From the op: Telling them about it is just a big no.

If Aliens are truly selfless and wanna do research, I will gladly let them abduct my ass.

Evolution was just that tbh. It won’t change anyone’s mind.

We're going to assume that something defying the laws of physics really exists? That our whole understanding of physics is wrong? Sorry, but I ain't buying it unless I see the tic tac moving above me.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Man, I’d sell my house for that debate. Biden would probably get wrecked though.

Yea, I realised that after posting. I don't know, this shit is too tricky.

Well, then I guess the expectations should be challenged but it is still a fact that you're x years old. You can't just legally change your age because you feel like it.

But gender is a social construct and age isn't ?

This is in addition to him ordering the testing to slow down, btw.

I don’t think I was ever properly stage blue. Always been highly skeptical of my religion and very open to new ideas. I did still kind of want to practice my religion as best as I could but my thinking, at least subconsciously, went something like: This is the theoretical framework I have adopted for now. For me to not practice its teachings would be hypocritical, but there’s no absolute reason for me to believe that this framework isn’t flawed or fundamentally mistaken. Eventually my skepticism grew and a few very heated debates and YouTube vids forced me to think in new ways. Of course I still had quite a few stage blue ideas that needed deconstructing and Actualized helped a lot with that. I believe the reason for my openness and skepticism was my refusal to accept that my, or ‘our’, worldview is perfect.

No, my parents are not secretly gay!

what does that even mean? leo talks about his personal life or something? who cares lol

Lol, I used to really believe that guy was a genius. Turns out he really isn't,

Goddamit, this shit again.

I saw this twitter thread. I’m not quite sure if I agree or disagree. Thoughts? Could you live life like this? Personally, I don’t I could..

@Roy So it all depends on what I want and my happiness? If I was truly happy living a simple life and not getting into any deep work, it wouldn’t really matter?

I remember intuiting there is something more to reality but I couldn't really put it into words. I don't know why I felt this way.. tbh, It was most probably because I was gullible, lacked critical thinking and listened to some of Terrence Mckenna and other psychedelic trip experiences. If it weren't for Leo, I probably would've taken all of that as some dogma before having experiencing it for myself. Lucky I didn't quite fall into that trap.

Lucky

Lol okay I didn’t quite get what was being said

Are you some kind of nudist

I think this video is pretty much all about that

@Parththakkar12 Alright, I'll check it out. Interesting. I'd find it a lot more convincing if you had some sort of data to back that up, but I understand, its about direct experience isn't it. One thing, though. Does this also mean that one could not really explain why they reached the conclusion that they did?