User:Converted From Conservatism

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"The universe is a strange and wondrous place.
The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans."
Supernatural is my obsession, Destiel forever and always
And then this has also been an interest for a long time
Also I'm a prolific reader of Homestuck and pretty involved in the fandom
"To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it. They act as if all their Kool-Aid has been spiked"
--Gary Young
"To understand why I jumped from the Mormon wagon train requires an understanding of what Mormons are and how they think. While Mormons have some quaint, quirky and fanatical ideas, they really aren't much different from millions of poor, guilt-ridden souls who, throughout the march of human history, have hitched their hopes to mass movements of one sort or another. Eric Hoffer, in his brilliant treatise, "The True Believer," explains the attraction of joining a cause: "A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following 'by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaninglessness of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated by freeing them from their ineffectual selves--and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole'. "Of all the cults and philosophies that competed in the Graeco-Roman world, Christianity alone developed from its inception a compact organization. Once I realized this, it wasn't much of a leap out of religion altogether once I flew the Mormon coop. I simply wanted to be free from organizational groupthink. I escaped from the stuffy attic of religion's "pray, pay and obey" mentality into journalism's open laboratory of "who, what, where, when and why."
― ― Steve Benson

[edit] About Me

I'm a 15 year old living in the USofA, so if I say anything stereotypically 15-year old-esque, do not hesitate to point it out. Agnostic Atheist/Secular Humanist/Rationalist. I was raised in a conservative, Christian home, and followed suit until around 13, when I realised just how full of batshittery both the GOP and Christianity are. I experimented with Judaism, Mormonism and Catholicism for a bit, before settling with agnostic atheism. I say "Agnostic", not because I am agnostic in the strictest sense of the term, but because, if provided with enough scientific, legitimate proof, then I would believe. Because after all, "it's unlikely, but you never know when there'll be a booming voice from the sky."

Before my shift in political views, I was a staunch, gun loving, Obama-hating, gay-hating, pro-lifing, praise-the-Lord-almighty-church-every-sunday, America-is-the-greatest-country-in-the-world, they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms Republican. About as right wing as a Republican can get. I've come to realise through my admittedly limited worldview, that for the majority of my childhood, I was a blithering idiot.

[edit] My take on Jindal

I originally supported Jindal for governor of Louisiana in 2008; he seemed like a pretty good candidate for governor. He won by a landslide, of course, despite being an ethnic Indian in the Xenophobic's Sportsman's Paradise. I moved away from Louisiana after many years of living there, and after my common-sense renaissance switch to liberalism, I've come to see just how full of batshit he really is. The words that come out of his mouth don't make sense most of the time, and half of the time I'm not sure its English. So, in summary, Jindal was a mistake, Louisiana.

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