http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/09/27/born-again/ <![CDATA[Comments on: Born Again]]> Jonathan WordPress 2007-09-28T06:26:44Z http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/09/27/born-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1874 2007-09-28T06:26:44Z <![CDATA[Comment by: paranoidfr33k]]> http://paranoidfr33k.blogspot.com/ Johnathan,

This is the first I’ve heard of Plato’s cave allegory and I agree that its similar to my own thoughts.

Its so difficult to explain how we feel to those who have never gone through it before. The TBM’s see us as apostates and close their hearts to us. They can’t seem to understand how we can even think that religion, but mostly Mormonism, is a sham.

I think even this allegory would be lost on them. It would have been lost on me before I began my awakening as well.

/paranoidfr33k

]]> http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/09/27/born-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1876 2007-09-28T09:17:34Z <![CDATA[Comment by: Jonathan Blake]]> http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/ That’s the frustrating thing: in order to help them see what we see, we have to say things that they perceive as an attack. We don’t attack them, but we must honestly admit that we attack something they feel to be the center of their identity and hope for the future. It colors every perception. It constricts the free exercise of reason and thought, but you can’t see this from the inside.

Those of us who have awakened from the dreams of typical Mormonism or religion somehow managed to gain some perspective that allowed us to see our own identity as separate from those beliefs. For many, this is painful surgery.

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