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there's so much love and joy out there, waiting to be found
make friendships with people who can see the light in you, who can find the angles from which you can sparkle together. seek out those positive reinforcement loops. there's so much of yourself you don't know you have
@hikari did that and ended up in a cult, wyd
@whitequark i would simply not end up in a cult
@hikari bold choice considering you've described one positively just a few days ago!
@whitequark i can think of three different groups you might be referring to and i reject this characterisation of what i said, sorry
@hikari I distrust any situation provoking such a sudden and deep feeling of enlightenment, and if you _do_ end up in a cult (something I find objectively unlikely) I'd rather have alienated you by that point already so that I don't have to watch it unfold in slow motion
@whitequark this is entirely reasonable.
i must also apologise for the way i've presented this, because the way i have summarised events is a massive simplification to the point of being misleading if read with this lens.
@whitequark specifically the idea that i have achieved a sudden, deep feeling of enlightenment from a single event is a natural reading of what i said, but it's not true, not what i meant, and i wonder if it might be a dangerous framing
@whitequark well, i corrected the most egregious example now