to be clear, I had a number of great teachers and mentors who put up with my questioning, and that process helped me establish a 10/
truth seeking and questioning. But there's so many people who think evolution is heretical or who won't tolerate questions 2/
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that the latter became the dominant experience for me. The modern Orthodox community is of course pretty diff 3/
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but the communities are pretty separated and the social norms of ultraorthodoxy barely tolerate modern Orthodox views 4/
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the bottom line is that I got a lot out of, and really appreciate the undercurrent of truth seeking in the ultraorthodoxy 5/
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but because of social taboos, bullying, and the increasing taboo on discussing information acquired through the internet 6/
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the dominant experience is that it's *hard* to seek truth and socially discouraged in a big way. 7/
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finally, I think my original tweets were a little more nuanced than you gave me credit for ;) 8/8
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