But you can have the benefits of religion and spirituality without the corrupting elements that come with dogmatic worship. The idea of religion being a language virus, re-writing neural pathways, dulling critical thought, seems a valuable one.
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Replying to @Dark_Realist @StartaleTV
But it doesnt stop with religion sensu stricto, people tend to turn things, ideas, people they like into a religion.
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So caught up in their own narrative, not stepping back at regular intervals to adopt a different perspective. They get upset when their reverie is interrupted by someone pointing out flaws or inconsistencies and dismiss it all in stead of making adjustments and stay grounded.
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Replying to @Dark_Realist
I'm mainly of the same mind - that being said, technology/society has evolved far faster than things like religious systems have been able to keep up. That's why all of this Old Testament stuff seems pretty wanky, because honestly the text was made for a different time.
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Replying to @StartaleTV @Dark_Realist
So it's clear that society needs a new prescription, and replacing God with the Logos is putting far too much weight on an individual pillar of what makes us humans. We're not robots.
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Replying to @StartaleTV @Dark_Realist
I'm more of the mind that a proper philosophy is one that would likely be considered palatable to most people, grounded on western religious frameworks (like our laws for example) while also being in attunement with biology/psychology and the nature of life itself
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It's a hard ask to find a philosophy that fits all of these qualities but that's why we've evolved from the allegory of the cave by the greeks to jungian/nietzschean concepts (we even had a spat with freud!) That being said the perfect philosophy as of yet does not exist.
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Practically speaking, I would simply advise most atheists to check their premises, their lives are much more grounded morally in divinity than their might think, and throwing that/the bible away is just silly.
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A good atheist has at least a few books of scripture in his library. The stories are fun and fucked up.
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