Good points-- I'm just making an observation about the fact that my entire family is inherently, in a knee-jerk kind of way, highly dismissive of anything that doesn't seem to be rationally- or evidence-based; we just tend to view spiritually- and belief-based rhetoric as strange, bizarre, or alien when applied to us personally. I need to make it clear that I don't think that OTHERS are strange/bizarre/foolish for considering things in that light.
Sorry that it wasn't clear that I sincerely DO NOT mean any offense to people at the other end of the spectrum from us. And I am aware that there is a spectrum, and that my immediate family is pretty much at one end of it.
I was quite happy living in rational-evidence land. Life was good. I was quite content.
But, could I stay happy and not be curious? Oh, No. I had to go play with the weirdness. I mean it wasn't real or anything.
I had to see what was outside and wander around pounding on the ground with a sledgehammer until something broke to "see what would happen". Yeah. Genius move on my part.
And now the door's locked behind me and I can't get back inside.
