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[–]CaliforniGinger 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow, I looked it up and that definitely is a high demand religion to grow up in! There's a kind of weird pride in surviving that and coming out the other side, isn't there?

Sadly, heart attacks and heart procedures almost always result in personality changes and I've noticed from the ones I observe it usually makes them super conservative and even hateful. I've seen it happen multiple times and it's even been studied. At least in that sense he doesn't deserve 100% blame, as it is a physiological thing happening to his body and brain, but still...

Libfems definitely feel like a religious cult nowadays. I was not aware there were other people like me, who questioned things and refused to just blindly accept everything.

Yeah, those people are few and far between in this world, especially now. Christopher Hitchens was still a live when I was questioning my religion and I LOVED watching him debate, it was so refreshing to see someone cheerfully interact with all different kinds of people and give the strongest possible argument for his side without strawmanning (much) the other side.

I think a lot of people become more vulnerable to cults after being in one, but some of us become way less so. Sounds like neither of us wants to ever be stuck like that again!