Keep in mind that they are at a different place in their journey right now. They aren't where you are. Maybe one of your "jobs" in this life at this time is to introduce them to some "weird" concepts. Not to make them believe in them necessarily, but just to make them aware of them. Accepting you and not trying to change you is a good indication that they have taken a step along that path
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Yeah, I don't tell people that I don't know things like that generally. Especially family, unless I know they're new age-friendly. With my Mom, Sister and Brother and Brother-in-Law I will say things just to shock them. Nobody else though.
My husband's family has NO IDEA that I am "weird". Oh except his Cousin A, who I really like. He's weird too, in his own way. And I have no doubt that he would be totally cool with anything I believe.
Interestingly, I think that at least part of Husband's family is part of my soul group, and that I have incarnated with them before. I feel connected to his father and his aunt (his father's sister). This cousin is the aunt's son. I just adore all of them. I like to think we incarnated together as his ancestors, the people who settled in the valley in the 1700's where his dad and mom grew up, "Germany Valley", near where we got married.
I just wish I could know these things.
Oh sorry, I got off subject didn't I. I always do...
That's so cool. I bet you did incarnate with them.
I think my husband belongs to my family. He has such a strong connection to them. On the other hand, I don't have much connection to his family. Or my family.
Have you met friends along the way that you have felt a connection with? That you felt you have known forever?
My ex-friend Mary was like that. The first day we met we both remarked that it felt like we had known each other forever. I am sure we have, and we have a close connection. :Even though we aren't friends anymore in this life.
I don't know if I've had a frieind like that. I've met people I connected to quickly. Or people that gave me a sense of deja vu.
There was once this cruise we went on. Now I usually never make friends on family vacations. I But on this cruise, I met this group of people and felt really bonded to them. There was a feeling of knowing them before.
OR it could have just been excitement that I had found people who liked me--that I had actually "clicked" with a group of people.
I like the idea of "Hey, Dina is like that and she's not weird so maybe those other people aren't weird after all."
Although then that puts you in the position of having to perfectly represent something. Meaning have a sense of humor about it and accept all the teasing.
That's fine in some sense. I think it's great to have a sense of humor.
I don't know.
In college, I felt like the poster child for Judaism. Hearing things like "You're not a Jap like the other Jewish girls I know."
Now I get to be the family poster child for vegetarians, reincarnation, homeschooling, etc.
I'm not sure what a poster for a poster child would say though.
When I think of poster child, I think of Jerry Lewis and that telethon. That must be where I first heard the term used. So I think of a cute little girl raising money for children with ... MS? Is that what it was for?
So I guess maybe for vegetarians, we could put you on a poster eating tofu with the caption "Vegetarians - They're Not So Weird."
Maybe?
So being the poster child for Jewish girls, did you feel like you had to try NOT to be stereotypical? I mean, I know you weren't to begin with, but was there ever anything you wanted to do or say but you stopped yourself because you thought it was stereotypical?
I have never heard of a Jewish stereotype about being stupid! That's just stupid! :D
As I think I have told you before, I never met anyone who was Jewish until I went to college. There is not a large Jewish community here, especially not where I grew up. There aren't even many Catholics there. Not too much diversity overall. So I don't really know any Jewish stereotypes except the money thing.
It's funny. I don't think I had ever known someone who didn't know any Jews--until we moved to Tennessee. I think we had always lived places where there was....well, more Jews.
I think in some ways it was exciting for me. Before that time, being Jewish was no big deal. Then suddenly, it was incredibly exotic.
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My husband's family has NO IDEA that I am "weird". Oh except his Cousin A, who I really like. He's weird too, in his own way. And I have no doubt that he would be totally cool with anything I believe.
Interestingly, I think that at least part of Husband's family is part of my soul group, and that I have incarnated with them before. I feel connected to his father and his aunt (his father's sister). This cousin is the aunt's son. I just adore all of them. I like to think we incarnated together as his ancestors, the people who settled in the valley in the 1700's where his dad and mom grew up, "Germany Valley", near where we got married.
I just wish I could know these things.
Oh sorry, I got off subject didn't I. I always do...
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I think my husband belongs to my family. He has such a strong connection to them. On the other hand, I don't have much connection to his family. Or my family.
I'm just lost.
Maybe somewhere out there is my soul group.
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My ex-friend Mary was like that. The first day we met we both remarked that it felt like we had known each other forever. I am sure we have, and we have a close connection. :Even though we aren't friends anymore in this life.
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There was once this cruise we went on. Now I usually never make friends on family vacations. I
But on this cruise, I met this group of people and felt really bonded to them. There was a feeling of knowing them before.
OR it could have just been excitement that I had found people who liked me--that I had actually "clicked" with a group of people.
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Although then that puts you in the position of having to perfectly represent something. Meaning have a sense of humor about it and accept all the teasing.
That's fine in some sense. I think it's great to have a sense of humor.
I don't know.
In college, I felt like the poster child for Judaism. Hearing things like "You're not a Jap like the other Jewish girls I know."
Now I get to be the family poster child for vegetarians, reincarnation, homeschooling, etc.
Fun.
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I'm not sure what a poster for a poster child would say though.
When I think of poster child, I think of Jerry Lewis and that telethon. That must be where I first heard the term used. So I think of a cute little girl raising money for children with ... MS? Is that what it was for?
So I guess maybe for vegetarians, we could put you on a poster eating tofu with the caption "Vegetarians - They're Not So Weird."
Maybe?
So being the poster child for Jewish girls, did you feel like you had to try NOT to be stereotypical? I mean, I know you weren't to begin with, but was there ever anything you wanted to do or say but you stopped yourself because you thought it was stereotypical?
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As I think I have told you before, I never met anyone who was Jewish until I went to college. There is not a large Jewish community here, especially not where I grew up. There aren't even many Catholics there. Not too much diversity overall. So I don't really know any Jewish stereotypes except the money thing.
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I think in some ways it was exciting for me. Before that time, being Jewish was no big deal. Then suddenly, it was incredibly exotic.
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