Mine was probably when I relapsed towards religion at age 15-16 and joined my mom’s conservative megachurch, naïvely thinking I can convince them to be less bigoted and more “christ-like” as well as accept science
I went through a pretty big libertarian phase way back in my late teens.
Not the ‘deregulate everything’ type, but rather more of a ‘everyone’s place in society is governed by the choices they make’ social-darwinist sort of angle.
Once I got out and experienced real life more (and learned about all the little nuances behind everything) I realized just how wrong I was.
Nowadays I’m a big leftist/socialist
seems like i’m mostly telling people in this thread not to feel bad about their prior cringe…
i really didn’t follow this closely AT ALL. but i feel like back in the day libertarian ideas were much more left of center than they are now. to my inexpert perception, it feels like libertarianism (and alot of other things) have been co-opted by conservatism over the years.
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which version of the hollow earth are we talking? if you mean a giant hollow shell, then yeh i’m not sure how well supported that is.
if you mean the honeycomb earth idea, where there could be myriad of huge deep caverns. then i’m kinda open to that possibility.
(not that my geoscience knowledge extends beyond highschool geography and the odd wikipedia article - so would welcome an opportunity to discuss with someone adept.)
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may i ask why you believed that and why you stopped believing?
what piece of knowledge changed things for you?
surely you already knew all the reasons why that sounds pretty fantastical, even back then?
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Maybe stay away from acid 😂
Marxist Leninist.
My cringe only grew more powerful as I aged. King of cringe my whole life.
Unfortunately I was blind sided by blue conservatives jerking themselves off over what trump will do to people they dislike. I have since lost my crown.
All of my teenage years were cringe but at some point I changed my clothing style to be more like that one dude in class who took drugs, sprayed graffiti and was always in trouble. Because he once said to me I could draw pretty good.
My anime days.
This was back before anime really took off in the US, so most people had no idea what it was. This was before the term “weeaboo” was invented, but I’d have been called one if it had been.
Homestuck phase 😬
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@op looking back, what was the specific cringe aspect of what you described in your story?
that you’d hope for this seemingly impossible outcome, of being a positive force in an established group with a clear bigoted direction?
or that you feel foolish for relapsing into believing religious topics again?
or something else?
It’s a bit of both really
Was?
Nochmal bitte
Sprich…
Angelsächsisch…
It becomes a cringe adult phase when you get older.
I was a big nerd so like to the mainsteam like always. maybe still. I have liked all my phases though.
Been there. I’m still religious, I just hide it now.
