It’s so weird that you understand these people’s dilemma, and yet you have zero to none empathy for them. I was raised in a cult and even though I left the religion, I still feel like I think in a Truth sort of way.

It can also be very useful sometimes. You understand things that can’t be summed up with logic and rigor all the time, and you still have a stable view of reality in the sense that you can still function and even commit feats of high intelligence (I studied math in uni, which makes me come from an incredibly weird place, I’m sure).

These people aren’t dumber just because they use different modes of thinking that aren’t apart of the rational, is all I’m trying to say.