tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post5916257819687830231..comments2024-03-27T03:18:39.139-07:00Comments on The Okie Traditionalist: More Thoughts on Friendship, part 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-89947009396554571522017-05-07T22:49:09.722-07:002017-05-07T22:49:09.722-07:00"People need people."
Couldn't agre...<b>"People need people."</b><br /><br />Couldn't agree more. <br /><br />From my experiences, I'll just say that it sucks to be an outlier. It sucks when folks in your old circles don't even speak your name, for fear that it interrupts the "groupthink" that may, in turn, spit them out as well. <br /><br />However, I think that one can grow stronger once they are uninhibited from the opinions of a clique they used to belong to. There's more room for free thought, and people can sort of "come to your front porch to hang out" if they choose to. <br /><br />But if you constrain yourself into one particular group or another, you run the risk of becoming the victim of a cult of personality. <br /><br />People definitely need people. One would think that we Catholics would be laid back, easy going, and accessible to everyone around us, maintaining the best intentions for evangelism and faith strengthening. But this is not always the case in the Traditional Catholic world, as some of my oldest posts will attest. <br /><br /><b>"But at the same time we need just pals to talk to, to hang out with, as long as there is a mutual respect of each other." </b> <br /><br />Too right, mate. We need to head downtown for some cigars.Laramie Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08959963301900895898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-909879228150756762017-05-06T16:38:26.858-07:002017-05-06T16:38:26.858-07:00I had a friendship that lasted well over 10 years....I had a friendship that lasted well over 10 years. It had some rocky parts, and I finally decided to let it go. The gap was religion. I try to be a strict Catholic, and he was more like agnostic. I often embarrassed him because I was not sufficiently politically correct. We moved to different towns, but kept in touch. I finally gave up on this when he was yelling that the Bible was f*ing fables, and insisted that Jenner could be a woman if he wanted. Totally different world views. I expect that basis of our friendship was loneliness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com