npub1vm…40rfn on Nostr: Hold on to that as long as you can. It's a beautiful thing to speak openly about the ...
Hold on to that as long as you can. It's a beautiful thing to speak openly about the topics that touch your soul.
Long ago when I was in my late teens, I would have these conversations with my close friends. We enjoyed the intellectual exploration of all kinds of topics with absolutely no filters. That all changed when they went to university and I did not. Despite the fact that I would still read the same or similar books, had the same interest in metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, theology and whatever else, they stopped engaging in conversations with me on these things. To the point where my one friend (best man at my wedding), told me he didn't want to talk to me about these topics. He spent 8 years in college on history and philosophy degrees and he attributed doing so to our conversations and my encouragement. I'm convinced that his time in school simultaneously crushed his curiosity and filled him with a feeling of superiority that make him feel like he was above whatever I might have to say or think about a topic that I am well read on but "uneducated" in. I greatly miss those conversations.
Long ago when I was in my late teens, I would have these conversations with my close friends. We enjoyed the intellectual exploration of all kinds of topics with absolutely no filters. That all changed when they went to university and I did not. Despite the fact that I would still read the same or similar books, had the same interest in metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, theology and whatever else, they stopped engaging in conversations with me on these things. To the point where my one friend (best man at my wedding), told me he didn't want to talk to me about these topics. He spent 8 years in college on history and philosophy degrees and he attributed doing so to our conversations and my encouragement. I'm convinced that his time in school simultaneously crushed his curiosity and filled him with a feeling of superiority that make him feel like he was above whatever I might have to say or think about a topic that I am well read on but "uneducated" in. I greatly miss those conversations.