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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Friendship deal killers

[(Anonymous)]

This.

I have friends who are die hard atheists who mock anything that is even remotely 'woo woo' - scientists and non-scientists alike. I also have friends who are into homeopathy (which I personally think is junk). In terms of religion I have Hindu friends whose families decide important dates based on astrological predictions, and I have Christian friends who believe God has affected their lives in the here and now.

Personally, I am a very level headed, down to earth, straight forward person who will be one of the first people to call 'bullshit' on something I think is junk or badly thought out. But I am also an agnostic who is open to spirituality, who has dabbled in astrology and Tarot and who has seen a psychic and had their predictions come true.

Why am I saying all this? Because it sounds like that if I had OP's attitude I wouldn't have chosen not to be friends with most of these people, despite the fact that they are all lovely, kind, intelligent, interesting people. And it sounds like OP would also not be friends with me. Which, you know, I'm fine with. But in general, I choose not to cut people out of my life just because they have different spiritual beliefs to me - it's the way they act otherwise which is the deal breaker (and should be for everyone).

Re: Friendship deal killers

[toku_mei]

I don't really believe in that flaky supernatural stuff. I find it a bit obnoxious, especially when people assert it as scientific fact or something, or do something that is blatantly harmful (like opt for ~natural herbal healing~ instead of taking their kid to the hospital for his cancer).

But for the most part, I just don't get why it would bother someone to the point of not wanting to be their friends. I mean, I don't have to "respect" astrology to respect a friend who happens to put some weight into it. Being into flaky stuff doesn't mean you're stupid, and doesn't even mean you're gullible (since a lot of these are old traditions and folklore). Even if I think it's bullshit, my friends are hardly the first people, or last people, to believe in this stuff, and if it isn't harmful or doesn't dominate their lives in an unhealthy way, who cares? Why does it affect me if so-and-so arranges their apartment all feng shui, or plans their wedding on a day that the stars tell them is good?

Like, of all the deal breakers there are for friendships. :P But then again, if someone was really nuts about this stuff, calling exorcists to purify their house, rejecting real medicine and science, spending all their money consulting scam artist psychics... that friendship just sounds a bit high maintenance lol