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As yall probably know, I was homeschooled from birth to the end of 'high school', and cut off from most secular culture - except for 3 months, when I attended public school at the age of 14, and ran into a lot of public school norms that shocked and confused me (cont).

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 28, 2019

I wrote about how I lost my faith here:

knowingless.com

How I Lost My Faith

I was homeschooled my whole life by a professionally evangelist father and a stay at home mother. My media was censored, my computer use secretly monitored, and my friends vetoed if they were not a…

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Yes. I think I was sort of 'lost', without a paradigm, for a few years after losing my faith, but have since found one I find far more compelling/beautiful/fulfilling than the Christian one.

2:37 AM · Jun 28, 2019

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What's your current paradigm? I assume you've written about it on Knowingless but I'm not sure where to look...

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I actually don't think I have a good writeup right now, though I allude to it a little bit in several articles. Something something 'zen' buddhism seems to be pretty close to what I'm operating on.