one cool thing about being outspoken is that people will periodically get mad at you for saying things
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I used to find it inexplicable that people were so timid about stating their thoughts but then I experienced the tradeoffs of doing so don't get me wrong, it benefits me a lot to speak my mind, but it also stochastically triggers people, including my friends
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I deleted a sad tweet from last night but I'm gonna repeat it here, given the context above: "pluralism until we actually disagree on something, okay whatever" it bums me out whenever I discover another person who only liked me when I didn't dissent from their orthodoxy
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
1/ dovetails w something I was thinking of tweeting earlier today, but didn't: it's nice to just come out as a Christian, in public, bc everyone who's going to scorn you for that does so, and then once they do, you're free. Your brand already has that tag that lets the Brights >
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2/ etc scorn you as dumb, creepy, anti-intellectual, whatever-they-want-to-say, and then, once that bit is flipped, you can't lose any more status in their eyes, and so you're free.
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Yes, I try to look at it as a shedding process. Still...
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it's also an opportunity to be patient and kind they can scorn you, call you creepy and retrograde and dumb, and you can just turn the other cheek and keep doing what you're doing, potentially doing good in so doing
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