Well hello there! Longtime casual anon contributor that decided to go legit a while back by making things official. I’m from a multiracial,multicultural, multiethnic, multi religious home where each parent was the absolute antithesis of the other to the most extreme ranges possible in most of their beliefs be it religious or political, their cultures, their upbringing and basic values (that one they differed on fundamentally but not in the extreme sense that the others fall under as in this case it would be quite a different situation if core values were polar opposites i imagine). One a teenage immigrant who arrived by himself in a harrowing story which would make a fantastic movie, that even if portrayed fully accurate to history, many would adamantly claim it was fictional based on the absurdity as well as the shocking level of some events that had to happen for his path here to be a successful one (It’s something that I have to put down on record in detail eventually)…as he escaped a civil war ravaging the country to get to US. While the other came from a much more traditional American southern family in a town so small it had no stoplights or even a stop sign at the time- or so I was told about the signs, decades later I traveled to the area where my mother was born and I have to admit that finally they at least had a traffic light…sure it was just a constantly flashing red:yellow one, but it was still an upgrade seemingly. Typical small town lower socioeconomic status and strong southern Christian faith in one hand and a foreign teenage boy from a strange land and “secretive” closed religion of one million people with a very unique and aged background dating nearly a millennium in hiding and of a land..enough vague puffery…a Druze man of Phoenician descent and white lower class (economically speaking) traditional southern Methodist woman from a large family that moved a lot and occasionally lived in rural areas and structures that might not necessarily have a traditional foundation that it’s “built” on…myself and my brother are a result of this disapproved very peculiar largely protested experiment of flavor mashup which took place once upon a time in a time before the interwebs when music was magical and everything and everyone seemed more confused about the world than even the people of today…im very thankful for such a vast diverse allotment of ideas that came together to help form what I feel to be quite a unique way of experiencing the world by having such different roots in so many things….however….even as thankful as I am, I wouldn’t exactly advocate for this approach and might at the least encourage some thorough discussion and pre counseling for any potential “scientists” about to hit the lab…
The above was jotted down largely as Freeform flow of thought and has not been looked back on yet as its quite late and I must retire. I will one day return to add much needed detail and hopefully tidy it up.
Cheers! -R