Well, there is one small grain of consolation in all of this, which is that perhaps, just perhaps, she is not nearly as secure in her silly beliefs as she claims. If she were as secure as all that, she would either not be reading you at all, or not be affected by you. There is a line somewhere in Bunyan about there being a path to Hell even from the gates of Heaven, which I prefer to see as saying that even people who have totally debauched their minds with fake religion have the chance to draw back into sanity. And writers do affect people.
I know you probably don't relish being a missionary for sane values or even being glommed onto by crazies who want someone else to blame for the fact that they are not nearly as happy as all that with the belief system they claim to be blissed out by. I fear, though, that you may be her way out.
What she says comes across as so creepy and disturbed that I cannot believe she is as certain in her positions as she claims. And she needs not to be, for the sake of her sanity.
It is not, after all, as if you were having to do anything or be her therapist. Just by existing you rebuke her pathetic puritanical certainties and that is surely a good thing.
When I think of the writers who saved me from certainties and priggishness and how I would have bored their ears off if we had had LJ back in the day, I blush.
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Date: 2006-04-03 09:33 pm (UTC)I know you probably don't relish being a missionary for sane values or even being glommed onto by crazies who want someone else to blame for the fact that they are not nearly as happy as all that with the belief system they claim to be blissed out by. I fear, though, that you may be her way out.
What she says comes across as so creepy and disturbed that I cannot believe she is as certain in her positions as she claims. And she needs not to be, for the sake of her sanity.
It is not, after all, as if you were having to do anything or be her therapist. Just by existing you rebuke her pathetic puritanical certainties and that is surely a good thing.
When I think of the writers who saved me from certainties and priggishness and how I would have bored their ears off if we had had LJ back in the day, I blush.