My dad is a professional evangelical - gets paid for writing books and going around debating people. I didn't realize until after I lost my faith how that approach to information was so radically different to the non-religious - not just in content but the narratives around (cont
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And there's no way to get through to them by discussion - because they can't conceive that you're not at war with them, and if you're insisting you're not at war then you must be lying, pretending, and they need to call you out and shut you down before you can 'destroy' them.
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This is why I typically *do not engage* with people who see Reality As War. The only way to win their game is to not play.
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Atlas says to Heracles, "hold this for a just a bit its too heavy".
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For example, many people in different nutrition and human diet camps are quite vociferous
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Marginal belief systems view reality as war, because they are the ones with a stake in winning it. The centrist establishment ideologues benefit from a perspective of "rational" pacified harmony, because that befits their continuing domination.
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isn't that just puritan paranoia?
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Don’t omit economists from this lu#ist, both free marketers and Marxists.
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It was very dismaying for me going from a religious household to a secular college and finding the same styles of restrictions on thought patterns
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