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Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Soundgarden

Overcoming the mis-indoctrination and thought processes instilled by my family is a major concern of mine. There is so MUCH to undo, and unfortunately once those patterns of cognition are habit, it’s hard to break them.

In a nutshell:

·        My family enjoys dwelling on the negative

·        My family actively diminishes any sort of accomplishment

·        My family actively discourages examining life outside of their comfort zone and extolls the virtues of conforming to their belief structure

·        My family assumes christianity to be ‘the norm’ for everyone without thought.

·        My family takes little joy in things which the majority of the U.S. population deems fun. In fact, the fun things are actively shunned.

Fun is a good thing. All people lie. If it feels good it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. I won’t live my life under threat of punishment from a daddy-figure imposed by some organized religion. Believing this does NOT make me a bad person – it makes me a NORMAL person.

You, my dear family, are NOT the norm, though you enjoy living your life as if it were so. Your beliefs are in the minority. Mine are in the majority. In our society, the majority defines what is the norm. And while it might be noble to try to live beyond the norm to some higher level you believe in, IMPOSING that upon your relatives is NOT noble and in fact is completely damaging and disrespectful of their own choices.

I would not dream of imposing my lifechoices on someone. If they were interested in it I would offer my insight. If they are not interested I would NOT dismiss their lifestyle. And moreso than that, I would NEVER ask them to live all the years of their life on earth under the assumption they are going to eternal damnation. How archaic and barbaric a concept that is, and how in good conscience can you knowingly perpetrate that attitude? It is very inhumane.