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You didn't offend me at all @charlie2dogs . It's just that I don't want to leave any avenues for looking for the truth, even if that meant considering religion. I was religious before so I was almost about to consider it, but I didn't. Thanks for showing me Leo's video on this topic @Natasha . It showed me that I was in a trap that I have built, taking what Leo said and making it into a belief. ( I would probably have to watch it dozens of time to understand the depth of it.) You just made clicked in my mind why I was resisting the "gospel" @Mal . Wow, this just makes so much sense to me! I just have a question then, if everyone lives their own reality then is it not real because it's made up? Then still just learn to accept other people's realities (worldviews) regardless of whether its real or not? Thanks for the insight again! Yeah, I was distracting my own dogmatic views I have about reigious people and other things @Saarah . I thought I wasn't going to fall in the trap, but I did because I thought that doing enlightment work later on in life was an excuse to "fall in the trap". I would probably have to watch that video again. I guess would need to do consciousness work right now in order to remove the resistance so that I can be more open-minded. It just that I'm afraid that I would waste my life looking in the wrong place for the truth. Even though religion looks silly to me, I was still considering it. I'm just also skeptic of enlightenment because I don't to waste my time looking for truth in the wrong places unless it is the right place (doesn't also mean that I'm not skeptic of religion too). Because I could be 20 years looking for the truth, but it doesn't "show up". But the only way to find out is to find out for myself. Anyways, thanks for your responses guys!

My dad and I got into an discussion on why I don't like going to church and why I was resisting the gospel ( mormon gospel). He was trying understand why I was like this. In a sense, he was right that I was resisting the gospel. This showed me that my ego was trying to defend something. At the same time though, he was getting emotional about how happy he was to be going to church and how positive things are at the house (in my opinion, seems like the same before he started going back). Anyways, there came a point where he said that the church was the only truth on the earth. I told what happens if the church was wiped out from the earth and he said that it will never happen because the scriptures said it never will. I asked him again and he said the same thing. He said that if whether the church is wiped out or not, the "gospel" is eternal and is the truth. According to him, the way that I discover the truth is by going to church classes and participating, reading the scriptures, and praying to heavenly father (god) if everything in the scriptures are true. Near the end, he said that he would protect the truth. At the end, he said that he wanted me to be open-minded about things with the church. When I talked about other religions, he said that he would "take their books" if offered one and read it , but still said that the gospel is the truth, clearly showing that he wasn't going to change his mind if the truth wasn't the gospel. So I know that my father is dogmatic but more importantly this showed that I was dogmatic about something. So my question is whether he is right about finding the truth. If it or isn't the truth then how do I be open-minded about the church or other things without resisting them? (p.s I posted this here because it has to deal with finding the truth) Anyways thanks!

@Rito @Argue Alright I appreciate your answers you guys. Thanks!

Hello there. I have a question about whether it is important to be part of politics or not. I'm just asking this because I want to actualize the best way I can and Leo said in his rant against society that politics are just chimps in cages, flinging sh*t at each other ,but does that now mean that I can't vote later on in my life or something? Anyway thanks for your help!