“I catch myself acting the way people think i should react.”

Oh man… this is one of the things i can’t stand about myself… which is actually just part of the social programming, to which we’ve all been exposed since birth. It’s disgusting, and i hate it, and i try to always override it, but sometimes it’s actually in your best interest to “play along,” because people will trip if you don’t… and from my experience, i would have to say that most people don’t tend to handle such things very well.

This is one of the reasons i can’t allow myself to associate with theists IRL. I’ll go off on an epic rant about how ridiculous their beliefs are, deeply offend them, and then they’ll blame me for their own ideals being absurd, and for the reaction being forced to tolerate such absurdity has produced from me.

In the case of theists, it’s just better for everyone if i avoid them entirely. They see this as a type of “prejudice,” but whatever. They can blame me for sparing them from reality… because if i don’t, they’ll also blame me for that too. At least if i say nothing, i won’t force them to reexamine their entire lives and end up with no sufficient answers. At least if i don’t say, they can continue to act on their lies and feel good about it.