Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Listen up, this is important:
Doubt isn’t the opposite of unquestioning faith.
Curiosity is.
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Think of this in context of dealing with friends and family members who are still in a high-demand group.
Think of this when strategizing politically against cults of personality.
How can you stay curious, and how can you make them curious?
Then,
Think of this when recovering from a coercive environment and unpacking your mind of what they put in there.
Think of this in how you treat yourself.
Doubt is not the opposite of unquestioning faith; Curiosity is.
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#ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exJW #exvangelical #cult #LDS #mormonism #AbuseCulture
I wish I’d had this insight to give as advice to all the many people over the years who have asked me how to help family members who are in a cult or high-demand religion.
THEY made doubt the opposite of unquestioning faith. But doubt isn’t a value. It’s a result of values. Nobody wants to identify as a doubter. Even skeptics aren’t operating out of doubt. Doubt isn’t an end point. It isn’t a goal. It’s a means to an end.
Curiosity tho? That flows. It moves. It’s dynamic. It has a resolution, and in cases where it doesn’t, it’s satisfying on its own.
Curiosity inspires critical thinking.
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NegativeNull@corbden Curiosity is the greatest reward too. It gives you permission to explore and search.
It's sad that my entire extended family (all Mormon) don't seem to have any curiosity in life at all. It's beaten out of them. It makes me very sad.
Hat. AuDHD cat 😷🌺🍉🌻🔻@negativenull @corbden when I was a child who asked "why" my mother would default to "i don't know, lets go look it up and see if someone else does"
This is the mid 80s. We sometimes made emergency library trips but usually when i was a little kid
somewhere in rhe house was some reference which would answer the question.
Curiosity was expected and treated as equal with not hurting anything unless i had to and not being mean to animals.
This is the mid 80s. We sometimes made emergency library trips but usually when i was a little kid
somewhere in rhe house was some reference which would answer the question.
Curiosity was expected and treated as equal with not hurting anything unless i had to and not being mean to animals.
@negativenull @corbden my parents are not perfect. But honestly i think thats a good foundation.
I didn't realize before
Curiosity is why people find out how to be better people.
I didn't realize before
Curiosity is why people find out how to be better people.