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At least my cousin has some good excuses for her irrational beliefs. She was also homeschooled, but her education was even worse than mine was which is pretty bad. I was allowed to read secular books. Apart from stuff like Little House on the Prairie, she was stuck reading cult publications and the Bible, so she didn’t read much. When we were kids, her mom said in front of us that she just wanted them educated enough to be able to read the Bible.

In just about every paragraph of the religious publications, there was at least one glaring logical fallacy or some similar absurdity. When you’re raised to believe that that’s the gold standard, it takes a lot of time and effort to learn how to think.

My cousin is a bit resistant to change. Part of that is because she thinks her beliefs are fun. It wouldn’t matter too much except for the fact that she’s not vaccinating her kids and has chosen to homeschool them. The standards are stricter than they used to be so that’s something, but it still feels like ignorance is an inherited, multigenerational problem in my family.

Anyway, I think that irrational beliefs are often fun or, at least, convenient in some way even for well-educated folks.

Yes. Ive noticed how some folks do latch onto multiple irrational beliefs. You would think that EVERY one would pick a few from the irrational buffet and leave most of the rest. But it seems like a minority go for the "all you can eat buffet at Shoney's" and take everything, with the rest not touching the buffet at all.

There was a young gentlemen ( a teen actually) who used to be on WP who...both supported Trump, AND believed in Young Earth Creationism. But that was his family's belief system. Partisan and religous beliefs.

But...

He was also anti vax with a passion. Okay...that also kinda relates to his family's partisan and sectarian stances. Sorta.

But he also latched onto things like the Moon landing being fake (which doesnt relate nor grow out of either partisan politics nor out of religion in any obvious way to me). So you couldnt put it down to him just being influenced by his family or church or party.

The current events in this country makes other people around me uncertain.
The news more especially.

And I feel nothing about it.
I'm just waiting if it ever happens. Should I care at all?

Whether possible changes in policies affects me and anyone or not, I feel nothing about it.
It's just additional info is all. Not even a possible war or take over or some debt contract or other conspiracy.

I understand how it may affect the livelihood of those around me, but...
... It's like I could care less about any change, for better or for worse.

Not that I actually have a plan for anything.
It's just that whatever it may be, I'll just live through it.

Existentially, I'm bored.
I'm just waiting for my lifespan to end.

And no, I'm not suicidal.
Just bored. Every time there's a good thing going on, I'll forget it what I'm excited on about the next day.

All I have to do is sleep and wake up -- I'll wake up going back into this bodily exhaustion and laziness and chatter of head excuses and it make up reasoned unwillingness unlike the previous hours ago every start of the day.

As if I never enjoyed the day before. As if I don't look forward to anything until the next several hours... Or never again until another few months. Sleeping and waking up just messes me up every day.

Either I'm meant to experience this amount of boredom and constant interruption, or I'm doing it wrong.
Either ways, I'm fricking bored and annoyed most at the time. At least I no longer feel that background irritation.

To say every moment is fleeing and that one would savor it is one thing...
And that all that is unpleasant will pass...

... But nearly forgetting what it was like almost every day for no reason other than fall asleep and wake up is ridiculous.

Doesn't matter why.
Good or bad emotions; it'll always be overpowered by that sheer physical discomfort that fluctuations just exacerbates every 'morning'.

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This is what bravery looks like.

Ben-Gvir got something off his chest today, bragging about how all the allegations made about the detention camps are true and intentional.

I wish religions were more about preventing the end of the world rather than embracing or causing it.

I'm worried that if Trump is reelected and Project 2025 is implemented, I won't be able to do (or want to do) the things I enjoy in my own home without the cops busting down the front door.

It really sucks that the leadership of a country whose domestic and foreign policies impact more or less everyone on the planet is decided by such a small number of people, at least 50% of whom appear to be either hopelessly ill-educated or completely insane.

I don't really care about whether or not foxes can be domesticated or when the next rocket is going to be launched into space. What I want to know is how little time have we got left before a bunch of shriveled up evil old men from USA and Russia decide to nuke the planet. And how to kill myself the quickest and most painless way possible before that happens. Maybe I should practice writing a note to my mom before I do. It'll devastate her, but at least she'll know I cared enough to write to her.

It's funny like how animals in the wild don't need laws and governments to let them know how to behave and what to do but human beings do

Political friction in my family is happening. I live in a conservative household. My mother is watching the RNC on TV and my younger brother who's more liberal is giving snarky remarks from the other room and mom is starting to get pissed. At least I try to hide my liberal side from my family.

Good to see Labour turning the boats back to France co-operating with the French government. The tory Rwanda scheme was a joke. Would like to see us rejoin the EU tbh. I think Labour need to hold another referendum on it. I think people now realised it's screwed up the country with mass immigration, higher food prices and slower economic growth meaning less money for public services unlike what Farage and his mates promised.