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People want to legitimize their beliefs and most believe the older the religion the more ligitimate it is. You can't let anothers persons mis-information ruin something that brings you joy. I take it with a grain of sand, they annoy me but they exist and I can't make it otherwise. So, I just worship how I worship and leave them to their misconceptions unless they ask me to inform them somehow.
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' John Greenleaf Whittier Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis ![]() ![]() |
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You don't think it would be a better thing to combat ignorance head on?
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In some cases yes, in some cases that would be an exercise in futility, it's usually pretty easy to recognize which is which.
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Ignorance quite rarely cares for the effort. They believe what they believe and no matter how many times you tell them the sky is blue they choose to believe it's red. I prefer to save myself the headache.
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' John Greenleaf Whittier Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis ![]() ![]() |
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That applies to people who are willfully ignorant yes, but there are plenty of ignorant and/or misinformed people who are perfectly willing to learn, and as I said before, it's usually easy to tell the two groups apart.
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True. I don't exactly meet the second, they seem rare.
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' John Greenleaf Whittier Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis ![]() ![]() |
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Working to help clear up misconceptions is definitely worthwhile. The trick though is to not let it get you frustrated or to let it take too much of your energy from actually enjoying your own spiritual path.
Others ruin our enjoyment only if we let them.
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