True things you Cant tell anyone?

[integral]

Here we go guys, list things you know are true but cant tell anyone as they will look at you like your missing 6 tentacles. 

[Infinite Tsukuyomi]

If you're masculine presenting like me, and also gay then you can't tell your straight bros that you are or they might malfunction. I nonchalantly told an acquaintance that "I prefer guys" in the midst of a conversation about some random girl. I could tell I had temporarily destroyed his conception of who I am. He gave me an expression like he had seen a ghost. I may as well have had tentacles. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, Infinite Tsukuyomi said:

If you're masculine presenting like me, and also gay then you can't tell your straight bros that you are or they might malfunction. I nonchalantly told an acquaintance that "I prefer guys" in the midst of a conversation about some random girl. I could tell I had temporarily destroyed his conception of who I am. He gave me an expression like he had seen a ghost. I may as well have had tentacles. 

This is crazy! I have found that when you ask people about Gay/Lesbian LGBQ acceptance they are all for it and really open. Reasonable. Act like it is nothing shocking - IF - they haven't formed up an idea or concept of who you are as a person.

If they have formed an opinion/concept of you already, and have some established history in their mind, it is often filled with assumptions. When you counter the pre-conceived idea or projection of who you are in someone's mind... it temporarily leaves them in a state of confusion as their concept of your truth doesn't marry up with the reality. They literally trip over the gap between idea of you, and who you really are! They go into shock. As long as they are able to reconcile the two; reality/concept - they seem to get over it. When they cannot, it can really reveal an unconscious prejudice!

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To answer OP: morality is an illusion/construct. Social domain is a construct (not real). Good and bad are relative and not objective. The self is an illusion. Free will is largely an illusion...

These four didn't go down so well at a family dinner a couple of months back. The free will one had my brother bashing his hands on the table 

I am banned from philosophy conversations.

That side of the family are Christians - so this was probably...

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Edited 1 hour ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Sandhu]

how corrupt to the bones  everyone is. 

[WonderSeeker]

3 hours ago, integral said:

Here we go guys, list things you know are true but cant tell anyone as they will look at you like your missing 6 tentacles. 

Things can be simultaneously true and untrue (paradox).

Take physical reality for example. We all feel it, yet there's nothing actually "real" about it. It can be "let-go of" and inhabited by us at the same time.

Another one I told my college roommate five years ago was there is not such thing as free will. He was at the stove cooking an omelette. He got this serious/pissy look on his face and threw the greasy spatula onto the ground, exclaiming "Look, free will!" I started laughing hysterically because all he did was have an unconscious emotional reaction — nothing about it was willed. And yet, will does exist because how and why was this reality created?! What could do such a thing, and how?