Won’t get too detailed so I don’t accidentally dox myself or something, but I’ve been considering my life up to this point, and I can’t help but feel I definitely might’ve wound up on the wrong side of history if divine intervention and my own intuition hadn’t gotten in the way.
I know people who work at Neuralink, Facebook, Google, IBM, etc. My college was pretty successful for job placement at big name companies
I’ve been in some of the “financial centers and think tanks” of the world as a student. I was presented with opportunities to engage with their work, especially toward the end of my undergraduate career. Most of these people made me uneasy; at the time, I couldn’t place my finger on why. But I always felt the urge to keep those places at arms distance.
As a gifted kid, I feel incredibly blessed to have gotten out of public school relatively unscathed. I feel incredibly lucky I didn’t join the status quo in college despite the pressure to conform.
This refusal to conform is definitely giving me some roadblocks now that I’m trying to get started in my career, but it does feel like I’ve dodged many bullets on the journey. And I’m glad I’m not part of the hive mind like most of my peers.
Anyone else have the same experience?
Edit to say: thanks to everyone who has commented! Really appreciate knowing others have similar journeys.
When Catholics use the word tradition with respect to revelation, they mean all and only those things which Christ taught the apostles and commanded them to hand on, and which are called public revelation - that is, what Christ revealed and which His Church has always taught, faithfully, since it’s founding.
An obvious problem for those who want to have a Bible without a church’s authority backing it is not having any way to determine which books are or are not inspired by God, without essentially becoming their own pope (at least for themselves).
The reason it is essential there be a clear teaching authority for safeguarding and handing on faithfully all of Christ’s teaching is that otherwise you have some admixture of error, and who can resolve which is authentic vs just someone’s opinion. Thus we have 30,000+ different Protestant denominations, all claiming they are teaching only what is true, yet one can find disagreements over virtually every point of belief, including very important matters.