This is excellent, a really wonderful question and brings to light some great points. There is a great deal of focus on “the real” as more important or preferable or relevant as a qualifier. People want to insist things are real because of the prestige it gives those things to have the vague notion of “real” attached to it because of it meaning valid, worthy, and other things now.
In my view, everything is “real” in some way if it exists at all, and problems tend to occur regarding language and how things are described or should be described in the view of various factions.
I have a particular hatred for the flavors associated with people describing their religious experiences or love, I really get angry when anyone is too lovey dovey or ecstatic in their hippy descriptions of things. It comes down to being threatened by the whole thing and what that sort of stuff is associated with or represents to me.
I also have a particularly strong aversion to drug users, and ultimately this likely is due to feeling threatened by these things as well. I could make all sorts of apologetics and excuses about it. One of the best is that certain drugs may be responsible not only for deteriorating the body and causing dependency, but may change the way people normally function or act, leading to potential consequences or miscalculations or inaccurate assesdments which otherwise can’t be sustained without the drug continually being used.
The truth is, I just want to control people and make them most preferable to me or what I might call “healthy” which means no substance addictions or dependencies and to be able to simulate imagination or mind altered states in a way which does not require inducing drugs from outside. Other excuses could be about taking risks.
I am completely against any form of non-sobriety and I am very much a “square”, finding opiates or stimulants to be more harmful than good and not being relaxed about any form of “trying” either. When people “try” anything I really actually want them to suffer and die so that I can further prove that I am right and they were wrong.
I’ve known addicts of various sorts all my life, and people who experiment with all sorts of things and also fully seem to come out unscathed. I have generally never been able to successfully control or stop anyone. They always seem to do whatever they crave.
I am against permanent body markings, artificially induced pleasures like having happy sex with a physically abusive person while drugging oneself in order to seem to enjoy it while pursuing something I think is wrong or bad, and any forms of sharing sex or polyamory or anything the least bit threatening or anxiety inducing.
For me, the ideal person is sober, patient, stable, loyal, ethical, taking care of their health and body, having no tattoos, no fetishes, and no particular religious fanatacism or ecstatic type psychosis seeming states. I want them to be like me, but even more boring and straight edged than me in some ways, but also lax about some things, so not health fanatics either or extremists or dogmatics in any way, regardless how I may be. I want them to genuinely agree with me and hold or come to holding my sorts of views and ideas and mentalities. I want the total abolition of alchohol from the world or at least it being treated with extreme prejudice due to it being involved in so much domestic abuse, harm, and violence.
My stern views are usually seen to be far from endearing and further separate me from relating to most people, which also includes my strict views regarding loyalty, responsibility, and sex, as well as hygiene
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Such is my “religious experience”