ROTF****!!!! Where is it written that listening to, or understanding that someone else has a different view then we, as an individual, view things, equals being manipulated by
them? Oh my dearest sweet individual spark of God, just because someone quotes some thing from someone else, it doesn't automatically mean we've been manipulated
And nor does it instantaneously make it right or truth for all, just because more then one person found the information interesting enough to pass it along to someone else who was asking questions.
Oh, yes yes yes, my dearest beautiful spark of God, by all means,
be awake,
be aware,
be self-determined, but also
be open enough to realize that not everyone has merely been manipulated by someone else