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sKePTiKal:
Mouse, my theory is that some people are so desperate for the magic pill to make them whole, happy and to belong (some or all of those) that they can willfully overlook the alarm-blaring red flags about those groups. All of them have a really attractive narrative for the person who avoids looking within themselves for answers, and that's reinforced by gaslighting, an internal hierarchy of "order" and "right thinking" -- not unlike the way religions can work, sometimes. They have to replace the person's inherent values & morality with THEIR version - whatever it is - too maintain control over those people.
For whatever reason, I didn't get that gene. I'm simply NOT suited to that environment. Yes, I was curious too about some of those groups. But even the ones that are generally accepted as "harmless" or "beneficient" still operate the same way. Marching to a different drummer will invoke responses ranging from disapproving frowns to exile & shunning to... people blindly following a madman into suicide.
Hence the recent popularity of a phrase used to describe people blindly accepting political ideas/policies/positions without questioning, thinking about it, or research and coming to their OWN conclusions about x, y or z. That phrase being some form of: "they drank the kool-aid".
Meh:
Heyo, Skep.
Agreed.
Hopalong:
Me, too.
Kool-Aid can be comforting, until you get the taste of the chemicals.
hugs
Hops
Meh:
In past two days, I have eaten almost 4 whole chocolate bars, and it wasn't satisfying. I normally don't buy it in bulk for this exact reason. Should have tossed it into the blackberry canes down the road. Sacrificial chocolate offering to the verdant woodland. Meh, I guess it may have cured my chocolate craving I hope.
lighter:
Eh, so you fed your sugar craving chocolate. Not a terrible thing, Mouse. It's information about something going on in the background, typically emotional.
Sometimes you do what you have to do and you don't have to judge it. It's better to pay attention to what's behind the craving, IME.
When I feed my chocolate cravings it's always dark chocolate...... usually Chocolove xoxox, cherries and almonds. If I just have it, then put it down without judging myself..... it's easy to go back to eating to feed my body and not excite my brain.
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