Shulum, I like you last comment. Good advice.
Thinking aloud...
This idea of people being too weak to handle truth applies in other contexts besides the LDS religion. I know someone who - under various mind-altering influences - had really screwed up. They ended up in trouble with the law and in the hospital and sounded lower - more beaten than I’d ever heard anyone. That wasn’t the time to confront with truths - despite their denial.
I imagine each of us have potential to be confronted with ugly aspects of humanity - in ourselves or in others & most wouldn’t want to see it - despite the truth.
It’s frustrating when people not only deny truth, but shame us for not denying it. So ignorant. But aren’t “we all ignorant - only on different subjects”? Relationships are more important sometimes than truth - sometimes truth is more important - what do you think decides which? I thinking comes down to intuitively and logically deciding what’s best in each unique moment.
Living in Utah and/or struggling to shake an overwhelming cult-mentality - negatives of the cult outweigh positives. But if I were where some TBM loved-ones live - in crime-ridden areas etc., the cult is like a haven from all that. I get that.
Sometimes life feels like a battle - barely hanging in there - and grasping for whatever will help us survive. Ideally, the foundation that’s grasped for, is based on truth - not denial, cult-lies, mind-altering escapes etc. Handling reality - but what is reality - except subjective interpretation? What gets you not just up each morning - but excited and motivated?
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