“Well, I’d rather be unhappy than than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.” Amen!

I don't know how conformity can be happiness. I feel like asking them, don't you have a single personal thing outside the box? But I don't because they'll lie to me. If they have somehow found happiness in that quandary, I suppose they deserve it.

donbagley Wrote:
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> I don't know how conformity can be happiness. I
> feel like asking them, don't you have a single
> personal thing outside the box? But I don't
> because they'll lie to me. If they have somehow
> found happiness in that quandary, I suppose they
> deserve it.

I always thought i was sinful for thinking outside the tiny mormon box. Everything they tried to teach me was so backwards from my instincts.

donbagley Wrote:
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> I don't know how conformity can be happiness. I
> feel like asking them, don't you have a single
> personal thing outside the box? But I don't
> because they'll lie to me. If they have somehow
> found happiness in that quandary, I suppose they
> deserve it.

Conformity is security, and to people conditioned for generations to be part of the herd, security is happiness.

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
"Truth hurts, doesn't it?"

"The wicked shall take the truth to be hard..." so they hide it. :)

Living well is the best revenge.

"The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.

"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior.

...

"Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."



Everybody be the same, or else!!