Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018)
by paulryanrogers on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:34PM
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> I think we'd be much better off being un-ironic sun-worshipers...
Better off worshipping unintelligent and non-existent beings, and all the foolish memes that inevitably accrete with magical thinking?
> hollowed-out atomised atheists.
Hollowed of what? Mostly harmful traditions many of which were designed to entrench unearned power and influence?
Hollowed of mystical modes of reasoning that provide unreasonably useful answers to our most pressing questions in a quasi-random fashion. You don't have to dig deep to find examples where this path outperforms "rationalist" approaches.
Yeah, exactly!
Imagine of instead of typing all that negative conspiracy theory rubbish on HN, you were outside intermingling at your local sun temple.
Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018)
by paulryanrogers on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:29PM
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Atheism is a conspiracy theory? Or is there something in my comment history that strikes you as 'rubbish'?
I think we'd be much better off being un-ironic sun-worshipers than hollowed-out atomised atheists.
And I see that as someone who is sadly in the latter category.