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It's more like "No girlfriend's mum, I will not buy into your essential oils pyramid scheme. No I promise you a homeopathic medicine cannot treat both cancer an
by Swizec 9y ago
It's more like "No girlfriend's mum, I will not buy into your essential oils pyramid scheme. No I promise you a homeopathic medicine cannot treat both cancer and the common cold. Yes even if it did help your friend's friend of a friend's sister's dog walker. But thank you for telepathically healing my parrot. He was in good health both before and after"
Ya know?
Do I get to vocally disagree with stuff like that even though it's thanksgiving?
- watwut 9y agoHonestly, you don't. And you will have hard time vocally disagree with people who are into esoteric in general. It is also pointless unless you are super great in psychology, they want to believe so won't listen. I definitely give you that you have it hard.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoDepends. Is their enjoyment of the meal more important at that moment, to you, than you vocally expressing your view? Write them a letter the next day. Ring them, meet up? Sometimes we need to celebrate our commonalities, our shared humanity regardless of deep differences. Perhaps demonstrate your dissent softly and postpone your opposition.
- Swizec 9y agoIs my enjoyment of the meal more important at that moment, to me, than their vocally expressing their views? Maybe. Perhaps it's best we all just keep quiet and don't say anything for fear of opposing each other. Or maybe the whole point of having meals together is having interesting conversations.