My brother is! He’s also someone I’d describe as, “Not spiritual, but religious.” He once described Germany’s CDU as the closest thing to his politics.
My parents are conservative Catholics, but he was bullied by chuds in his formative years, so I think what happened is he latched on to the aspects of Catholicism that weren’t consistent with mainstream chudism. Only, he also didn’t get along with the libs (and leftists were super obscure) so he never came around on stuff like LGBT rights or, like, not being racist.
So the result is that he takes Catholic social responsibility teachings seriously, but it comes from a place of moral duty, like “noblesse oblige,” and not from a place of liking or empathizing with the underprivileged.
out of curiousity, does he seem really deeply committed to that? Like is it something he likes talking about or is he a legit charitable curmudgeon IRL?
He’s very particular and set in his beliefs, yeah. Once we were talking moral philosophy and I casually said I’m a consequentialist and he looked me dead in the eye and said, “I’m a deontologist” and nearly kicked me out of the house over that. It was kinda in the context of AES states where I wasn’t really hiding my power level which probably contributed to everything.
I was sometimes able to speak his language because we’re both nerds and kinda autistic and in some ways had similar experiences, but the word “trans” was just a bridge too far for him and we haven’t really spoken since. Fortunately another living situation worked out afterwards but I was in a depressive funk for a while afterwards.
He doesn’t get along with a lot of people and has frequently clashed with managers and coworkers (he works in tech), but he finally found a little town with a Catholic college where he can work remotely and fit in as well as he could anywhere.
Super interesting, thank you for sharing. I’m sorry to hear you hit an irreconcilable difference with him over trans stuff. I can imagine that was pretty fucking awful.
I wonder if he’s happy, relatively speaking. Hopefully you are!
My brother is! He’s also someone I’d describe as, “Not spiritual, but religious.” He once described Germany’s CDU as the closest thing to his politics.
My parents are conservative Catholics, but he was bullied by chuds in his formative years, so I think what happened is he latched on to the aspects of Catholicism that weren’t consistent with mainstream chudism. Only, he also didn’t get along with the libs (and leftists were super obscure) so he never came around on stuff like LGBT rights or, like, not being racist.
So the result is that he takes Catholic social responsibility teachings seriously, but it comes from a place of moral duty, like “noblesse oblige,” and not from a place of liking or empathizing with the underprivileged.
out of curiousity, does he seem really deeply committed to that? Like is it something he likes talking about or is he a legit charitable curmudgeon IRL?
He’s very particular and set in his beliefs, yeah. Once we were talking moral philosophy and I casually said I’m a consequentialist and he looked me dead in the eye and said, “I’m a deontologist” and nearly kicked me out of the house over that. It was kinda in the context of AES states where I wasn’t really hiding my power level which probably contributed to everything.
I was sometimes able to speak his language because we’re both nerds and kinda autistic and in some ways had similar experiences, but the word “trans” was just a bridge too far for him and we haven’t really spoken since. Fortunately another living situation worked out afterwards but I was in a depressive funk for a while afterwards.
He doesn’t get along with a lot of people and has frequently clashed with managers and coworkers (he works in tech), but he finally found a little town with a Catholic college where he can work remotely and fit in as well as he could anywhere.
Super interesting, thank you for sharing. I’m sorry to hear you hit an irreconcilable difference with him over trans stuff. I can imagine that was pretty fucking awful.
I wonder if he’s happy, relatively speaking. Hopefully you are!
Thanks.
Damn wait until he finds out that consequentialism is just deontology phrased differently.