Reply #8: I grew up in a really conservative and fundie part of the country, and I disagreed with [View All]

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almost everybody I met about almost anything

As a kid in school, I thought the Court had decided the prayer cases correctly: my school district ignored such Court decisions, so I constantly objected to the school prayers -- and a lot of people were incredibly unpleasant about that

I felt surrounded by rigid authoritarians, who were quite sure everything they thought was right and that everybody who disagree with them was evil: America-Capitalism-Football-Jesus all seemed to smear into one thing in their minds, all pretty much synonymous with whatever they happened to think about whatever they happened to think about, and they had a rather limited vocabulary for people they didn't like: f***** commie q**** seemed pretty standard at the time, together with various accusations of godless heathenism, with a general background of associated racial epithets

I said goodbye unnoticed, pushed towards things in my own games
drifting in and out of lifetimes unmentionable by name
searching for my double, looking for complete evaporation to the core
though I tried and failed at finding any door
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-is-just-a-four-letter-word
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqVGjS6o2R8