a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by ilex
ilex  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Labor Econ Versus the World

This sums up pretty exactly what growing up in a fundamentalist conservative christian household is like. There are things you just don't question and if you even try, the resulting discussion is so bad-faith and full of rabbit holes that you might as well not even bother. Unless you can find someone your parents already think speaks the gospel truth, you'll never convince them of anything, and even if you do the odds are that they'll denounce that person too.

I'm trying to learn how to speak more confidently and y'all (and especially KB) have definitely helped me see how that can look. (Although I don't think the bombast-and-cursing style will ever quite work for me!)