Ah yes, let's live like rats. Keep everything secret, enjoy things furtively and scurry away from the light. /S

I'd rather openly talk about stuff I enjoy and have the balls to punch them in the face when they come to try and take it from me. Then maybe posse up and go proactively burn down their cult house for retribution too if they don't take the hint.

They want you alone, destitute and eventually dead. You have to confront them eventually.