Posted: Nov 24, 2015 6:07 pm
funcrew wrote:Hi,
I was born & raised fundamentalist Baptist. Being immersed in the culture, I always regarded the "Darwinists" as delusional and dangerous. When I was about 40, a friend asked me, "How did the kangaroos get from Mount Ararat back to Australia?" It took another 5 or 10 years to come to terms with that challenge. With great trepidation, I read Why Evolution is True, Scientists confront Creationism and Intelligent Design, and Your Inner Fish. It's hard to describe how jarring it was to realize that my tightly-held worldview was bullshit. I'm over that now, but the problem is that my life long social circle are all hardcore fundamentalists, as is my wife. I don't want to get divorced, nor bail on my old friends, but I need to find some people that I don't have to edit my conversation around.
How did you ex-religious folks find new friends after the lights came on for you? BTW I'm 50-ish and live in a large desert city in the Southwest USA.
Much Appreciated - Simon
You took the red pill, didn't you? You can see the matrix now, can't you?
It puts you in a situation, doesn't it? It closes huge swathes of conversation with the credulous. I don't think I'd long stay partnered with a fundy, actually. Those differences are pretty fundamental, and bound pretty tightly to how we identify ourselves. I wouldn't want to long tolerate the constant requirement to keep a filter in place to avoid the forbidden areas of conversation.
As for where to find friends? The same way you found the ones you have now, I'd think. Meet them at places where like minded people collect.