sometimes, but weve seen them double down on the conservatism, which makes them more extreme than thier parents.
Recognizing danger is a deeply internalized ancient instinct. If you feel danger, there is almost always danger. Heed your brain’s warning.
does not apply to people with paranoid schizophrenia and persecutory delusions. as someone who now takes meds against it, sometimes your own brain works wonderfully against you.
Also, the brain sometimes presents useful information like this in a not useful manner.
I am among other things a Private pilot, several years back I attended a seminar on this subject. The presenter was an accomplished pilot and mechanic who owned his own airplane. One day, he had just finished engine maintenance and he went out to fly. Just as he got out to the runway, he got a strong sense of dread, of ‘my airplane is gonna kill me today’. So rather than take off he went back to the hangar to investigate.
He started walking around the airplane, running his hands over the metal, until he got to one specific spot on the engine cowling where his mind said ‘there! Something in here wants me dead’.
So he starts disassembling the airplane in that spot and eventually gets to a thing called an oil separator. It’s a simple device, just an empty box basically. A mixture of oil and air is pumped into it, the oil falls to the bottom and exits through a tube back to the engine, the air goes out the top.
Inside the oil separator he found a little loose bolt. It was right next to the hole that went back to the engine. If he took off, when the plane rotated the little bolt would have been sucked into the engine, causing massive mechanical damage. If he lost his engine on early takeoff that can be a very dangerous accident.
Obviously, he is not psychic. His airplane doesn’t want to kill him. It’s just a piece of metal. But, when he was doing maintenance the previous day, part of his brain remembered that he didn’t secure that bolt correctly. And thus, the brain presented useful information (you didn’t tighten the bolt and it’s going to destroy your engine) in a non-useful way (your airplane wants to kill you).
The moral of the story here for pilots was if something feels wrong, don’t assume it’s just nerves. Look for a reason, look for a cause, trust your instinct.
This isn’t limited to pilots though. Over a million years we have evolved it. It’s the same reason why little noises at night freak you out, because a million years ago when we lived in caves a little noise might mean the saber-tooth tiger was trying to sneak up on you and eat you.
Like when you’re leaving the house, and you have that feeling that you’re forgetting something? You almost always are.
Breaking the chain is both equally hard and important. Your own future family will be a better place.
Yeah, you get a huge bonus multiplier on your humanity score for that. Don’t discount it!
Similar but with religion intend of political insanity. I don’t remember ever believing in their bullshit, but even tried a few times (since it was my only choice as a youngster). Always annoyed by their stores that didn’t make any logical or scientific sense and as soon as I could have a weekend job I got one and left.
It often skips a generation, like red hair.
I dk grandpa was way worst than dad.
Uh oh, keep an eye on your kids OP!
did the same, in my case i would say “needed” more than “worth it”, it was not easy
Dude, same.
You got out before you got bit. Once a bite breaks your skin, you’re done for. You’re gonna become one of them.
Cap. I was a formerly incredibly devoute conservative evangelical. I found my way out. People find their way out all the time, they just get buried under all the other discourse.
I’m going to write a vague anecdotal post summarizing my entire childhood and absolutely rake in the upvotes by inserting a charged key word so that everyone on a left leaning platform will agree with me.
You do you king
But think of the internet points. You are hoarding all of them, Abundance114 needs some too!
Aside… I totally agree with your original post. 40 years I’ve been bitching about my awful family. For 39, the rest of them have been telling me what an asshole I am for speaking my mind. For some reason, they have been agreeing with me more and more over the past year.
Thank you for you anecdotal experience. It provides much… Much… More support for OPs… anecdotal experience.
Here’s to hoping that no conservatives post their anecdotal experience that’s exactly opposite of what y’all are reporting because then, who knows what you’ll believe, rite?
Struck a nerve?
Shut up, donkey.
