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aviva
· 5 years ago
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Mine‘s the first one
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zont
· 5 years ago
Im with the 96% here. Honestly, if it werent for religion, id probably be less fucked up rn.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Spirituality and religion permitted the world like many others types of ideas. You’d have to live in a bubble not to be exposed to concepts or ideas of either since so many stories, common sayings, etc. find roots there or are influenced by their creators own exposure to religion. But if by “indoctrinated” we mean raised in, told what to believe or surrounded by believers and taken to places of worship etc- I can firmly say I was never “indoctrinated” to any sort of religion or spirituality. Neither of my parents practiced a religion and one doesn’t believe in any religion at all. At a very young age the concept of metaphysical existence was put in my mind- especially science fiction and fantasy which touched on ideas of fantastic things we do not understand, magic, ghosts, time travel.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
I got very excited about science and space in particular and started studying them. I read books and asked for more books whenever I could. A relative would buy us encyclopedias and National Geographic or other scientific reading programs. And the more I learned the more I knew we didn’t know. The more I saw the more it was clear there was mystery around every corner, that no matter how much we know at any given time we will always not know it all. Somewhere deep down I just knew that there were things in the world that we were missing and I felt those things could easily fall into a category of “spiritualism” or “religion” or “paranormal,”
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guest_
· 5 years ago
So the absence of fact isn’t proof of speculation- but looking at the world and everything we know anecdotal and otherwise I just personally find it hard to believe that there isn’t more. Whatever more is- “Chi” or “Karma” or “god(s)” or whatever. The terminology, the secret handshakes and dances- getting away from that stuff- the concept that there is more, there are forces or even just lets call them “patterns,” which apply themselves to certain concepts- it makes sense to me.
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guest
· 5 years ago
You mean like literally everything else parents teach their kids? Anything that teachers or parents teach kids is indoctrination then.
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terror
· 5 years ago
I'm in the 2% ! Yay!!
