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lavalamp comments on Open Thread, January 16-31, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: lavalamp 21 January 2013 09:08:23PM 4 points [-]

I got a heavy dose of "think for yourself" from my parents that not all homeschool kids get. Some kids I knew got really huge amounts of religious indoctrination. I was well into my 20's when I finally deconverted, so I guess I did, too.

(I'm not entirely sure if they expected me to actually "think for myself" or not if it meant changing my mind about something like evolution, but regardless, I certainly did learn to do that.)