There’s this weird magical thinking that if you hang around with people who think different than you it will run off on you.
Or you’ll catch it. Get infected with some opinions you disagree with. 1/
Don’t be so afraid of people with different opinions than you. There’s no virus you might catch.
Guys back in the oldem days like Jesus and Buddha said this is actually good for you. 2/
Even criminals and your enemies. You won’t even catch the cooties from them.
Expand your little provincial life. Stop imagining how people think. 3/
If you disagree on one topic don’t run away all ascared.
Move on and seek out a different topic where you might find some connection. 4/
Or don’t I don’t care. Don’t come crying to me when you don’t have any real friends and live in a tiny isolated sterile glass box all lonely and sad. 5/
Or if everyone you know looks like you, thinks like you, and votes like you and you are bored as hell sitting in a room full of mirrors. 6/
I used to be more like this and I suffered the fixed delusion that I was important enough that other people would change their opinions to meet the standard I set for people to qualify as my friends. 7/
Actually, nobody gave a good god damn. 8/
They just made friends with other people who were more tolerant than me.
I never changed shit. I just isolated myself with my many deal breaking criteria all alone and sad. 9/
I have a lot more friends now. Much more diverse both in appearance and in opinions, priorities, and beliefs. 10/
Sometimes we discuss points of disagreement. It’s also okay just to avoid those topics.
Yup. Just skitter around.
Notice that there is actually nobody on this entire earth with whom you agree about everything. 11/
As you do this project and expand your mind, you may begin to see that other people grant you the same prerogative to have your own peculiar set of beliefs that you grant them.
It’s like a 2-way street or whatever. 12/
There’s a prayer that says when you trespass in your neighbors property then don’t get pissed when he cuts across yours or something like that.
This is what I’m talking about. 13/13
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