Tim Ferriss

Uh...

But... a friend of mine, a few years out of college, was getting divorced, and he joined a church that was very, very, very extreme.

And... I would say a weaponized version of religion.

Like, very extreme.

And I was incredibly worried for him.

But he was very, very, very, is very, very, very smart.

And so he had done all this reading.

He had kind of prepared himself for every possible counterargument.

And I was like, well, I gotta stock up on some materials here.

So I bought all these books.

and, like, Bertrand Russell and this, this, and this.

And we would have these long debates, and I'm trying to kind of prevent him from being weaponized in this church, because he was, like, the heir apparent.

Like, he's got a really smart guy, very intense, super aggressive in everything he did.

And I was very concerned, but ultimately realized that at that point in time, he had no safety net.

He was going through this horrible divorce.

His life was falling apart.

His family was having all these problems, meaning his family of origin.

And I was like, I think if this gets taken away, I'm not even convinced I can take it away, but if I were to be able to take it away, then what?

And I was like, I'm not willing to, I would rather him roll the dice with this particular church than have on my conscience that he killed himself or something horrible happened.

But from that point forward, I had this really bad taste in my mouth.