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[rva_jeremy]

Thanks for your very warm response, YinYang. I respond to things you bring up because they inspire reflection. Isn't that much more satisfying than two portions of the Creator merely agreeing? By provoking reflection, you're performing quite a service.

If your child walks into the house one night and says "dad, I've joined Scientology"... how will you react?

I'd probably freak out.

But nobody here has talked about somebody joining a cult of negative philosophy; only reading it. I'd probably cheer my child on if he or she were reading Dianetics of their own accord. That shows a lot of initiative and curiosity, and we'd have some bomb dinner conversations.

On the other hand, I'd probably lose it if my kid joined a Nietzschean cult, mostly because I'd have no idea what that could possibly mean. I'd be like "why haven't I heard of that first?"