When did you start thinking for yourself?

RobRoss1 · 2019-06-16T22:03:31+00:00

At 31 years old I feel like I understand that body language and actions are so much more honest than the things people say.

Trek13 · 2019-06-17T14:39:53+00:00

around age 9 or 10. My family was very religious and I attended church services every Sunday till I was 16.

I started questioning everything. I remember I did not like to sing so when the congregation stood to sing a hymn I would just read the lyrics. I remember even at that young age reading those words thinking what nonsense. I started thinking all sorts of bizarre things during the sermons basically daring God to smite me. Sunday school was no better and I was constantly in trouble for questioning those absurd bible stories.

I didn't know what an atheist was but that was basically what I became at such a young age. Have been questioning authority ever since.

DarkNights292 · 2019-06-21T03:14:34+00:00

Found red pill in a comment section on YouTube. Redpilled a couple friends and my father and mother

EmptyRedCloud · 2019-06-17T23:38:05+00:00

I remember the moment vividly. It was two weeks before my 40th birthday. I was sitting at my computer, running a business that was losing money, a business I had long lost my passion for. I had enough money in the bank to travel the world but I was sleeping in my office every night. Living in a city that I couldn't enjoy, in a neighborhood I didn't like and working with lazy freeloading assholes that I couldn't stand.

And I stopped to ask myself:

"Why am I doing this?"

A stillness came over me in that moment. I thought for a long moment and realized I was driving myself nuts to 'impress my peers'. All that work and effort to look cool to people who really didn't give a fuck. Social media , old high school friends, ex-girlfriends, childhood buddys from the old neighborhood, college classmates and a whole bunch of people I never even talk to or have any real bond with anymore was who I was trying to impress. I was killing myself to live up this successful image.

But it was all fake. If invited all the people I was trying to look good for to a backyard BBQ , not one of them would show up. If I had a major tragedy in my life (which I had a few) not one of these folks would answer the phone with any concern.

I stopped all that "faking and fronting" right then and there. I stopped trying to look good for society and started going my own way. Deleted all my social media. Sold the business. Packed up my stuff and took a cross-country road trip across America.

Currently 41 going on 42 in a month and the moment I started 'thinking for myself' is when this GOOD LIFE IN PARADISE started for me.

Good question.

MyLittlePonyofDoom · 2019-06-17T14:46:10+00:00

To be honest it’s been a long road but now realise that very few people actually know what they are doing or are competent. The rest of us are pretending or relying on luck. It’s dispiriting yet liberating when you know most people at work are just fake

chalchium · 2019-06-17T13:22:30+00:00

When I tried hard to listen to others, smile at others and make friends. Then I got all kinds of insults coming my way. When you are nice everyone want to shit on your head. Then I realized holding on to something of power and hold them hostage gets you way more respect than just being nice. Showing a nice face is a plus when you have power, a minus when you don't

Supernumiphone · 2019-06-17T05:40:37+00:00

It's been a long, slow process of gaining ever increasing clarity that is still ongoing. I can't point to any single point or time frame as the beginning.

I can say, however, that it started much later than I would have liked. My father was red-pilled as fuck and tried to teach me when I was young, but I believed others who told me he was wrong.

masven · 2019-06-17T01:27:59+00:00

It's a long story, but basically it was back in late 2017 and, I'm ashamed to say this, but it actually took someone else close to me getting hurt...

theanchorman05 · 2019-06-16T23:04:25+00:00

When I got in college and realized being a gentleman is for losers if you want to get women's attention. Society constantly stresses that women are looking for gentleman and from what I think of it, that they're looking for betas. When I started working on me I realized that the majority of women were looking for the opposite. So I then started questioning just about everything else that had to do with women and myself.

Jan22147 · 2019-06-16T22:21:14+00:00

It started when I left home at 18. It got even better when I started saying no to people and it finally facilitated once I told the truth to my last toxic friend and he got so pissed off we ended it on the spot. Now at 24 years of age I can pretty much say I am unbiased in relation to others.

30203forever · 2019-06-16T22:12:21+00:00

Long ago. And you?

Bri-70 · 2019-06-28T02:36:13+00:00

Probably 10 years old when my parents took me to church Sunday school.

Title	When did you start thinking for yourself?
Author	CalmElk
Upvotes	4
Comments	17
Date	June 16, 2019 9:45 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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