they can wishfully think themselves into anything as long as it makes them better than other people and they can play victim
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Not to irritate you, but you sound like someone who hasn't accepted Our Lord in your heart.
But my therapist told me I need to stop getting into abusive relationships
I live in a conservative suburb where every other person you meet is in some megachurch, so it's inevitable. Having recently retired, I'm quickly running out of fux to give. One day I'm going to tell one of them how my Lord Cthulhu has changed my life, and see how fast they bail.
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It irritates me because the family member who attributes random occurrences to god intervening in daily life and a great evil we are fighting on earth that also intervenes is catholic; this mystic shit is heretical as hell.
Not irritated but it is slightly annoying. Just try to remember these people base their entire personality on their religion and without they donβt know who they are. Itβs why itβs so hard to get people to leave.
I'm annoyed by anyone with a personality that consists of exactly one thing and one thing only, even more so when the one thing they picked for their personality is a tradition of extravagant bullshit that has been ruining lives for millenia
probably not half as irritated as god would be
My mom is similar, anytime I ask her some question, she just circles around the discussion (if not outright mentioning) God and how he's the one behind it all.
Yes.
Well it is nice to realise that despite putting in the work, it is a huge privilege to have the freedom to be born in a time and place where you actually get the chance to realise your potential - instead of having suffered abuse at home, being sent to a farm or factory at 8 years old or simply dieing from diarrhoea. So yeah, sucks if people want to be thankful to god for that, but being thankful for what good exists in the world is a positive thing.
Veeery.
Yes
My take is that it is all subjective, I feel like I busted ass, I feel like a god interviewed, I feel like it was my lucky socks. Without a study and metrics we can't objectively measure reliably, but that would be overkill for every little thing. So we take our subjective shortcuts and move on. My advice would be focus on the sentiment, "that's impressive, it's good that hard work/gods intervention/lucky socks helped that outcome, because it seems so surreal otherwise.". That or have the heart to heart and put in the effort to align if it's important and they are important to you.
Yeah, but these days I'm more tired than irritated.
I mean, they kinda have to because Jesus is the reason for the season.
I like to us a phrase based around "All hail the deity on the mantle"
Designed to trigger the most religious
I do the same just with Karl Marx and I don't see the problem