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Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by paulryanrogers on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:34PM (#32977078)
> 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?

Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by uoaei on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:39AM (#32979780)
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.
Re:Tradition is Smarter (2018) by LAC-Tech on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:06PM (#32977347)
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 (#32977562)
Atheism is a conspiracy theory? Or is there something in my comment history that strikes you as 'rubbish'?