I'm triggered by people who believe in astrology, or talking to spirits or deities or reading energies or whatever. Am I just overly sensitive or closed minded or judgmental? Maybe but... I think there's something else going on here. An analogy:
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Not all people who enjoy astrology-and-co. trigger me, but the majority do. But this is a terrible trend in spirituality to figure out a frame for an experience and then *use it on the world, including you*. They are *not* curious about other explanations for the sense of 7/
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pattern matching, they use their energy reading and astrology and tarot or whatever to understand you, they create a spiritual reality with 'rules' and 'things' that could conceivably be understood and dissected but there's *no desire to do this*. 8/
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When I'm around these people I feel uncomfortable at how much their spiritual frames feel like they leak onto me, inform their view of me, without them ever actually trying to get to know me. This can happen *really* indirectly, in ways that are nearly invisible. 9/
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I feel very similarly to the way I do with my religious mother, where I know she believes that I'm going to hell, that's just part of her worldview, and she might not talk about it but it leaks into her perception of me, her hellbound daughter, it'll always be between us. 10/
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And it might not be as sinister with the astrology people, but it has the *potential* to be; I still treat a gun as dangerous even if the next shot is a blank. And ultimately this is my discomfort - when I'm around these people, I feel misunderstood, or missed, or alone 11/
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in the deep value of curiosity and self doubt, and I feel afraid and uncomfortable at the small possibility they might turn on me in the future because they never were really in connection with me to begin with. I don't like this feeling, it makes me sad. 12/12.
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Huh. I got less militant in my atheism when I started interpreting Woo Statements as a kind of internal experience being shared rather than strict claims made about objective reality. Some feelthinks are too context specific to get across cleanly without reference to the frame.
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I don’t understand this last point. Why would another person explaining their beliefs around astrology - mysticism - make you feel uncomfortable? This is just them, not you. I like the way you describe having a light touch on what is reality.
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There's some amount of bleed that i think I'm really sensitive to, and feels like it's happening around astrology and stuff. This doesn't always happen! When ppl hold mystical beliefs with a light touch, in a way that feels truly owned, I feel very comfortable.
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