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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 18

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Andy C. Ngo

      Nuts, yes. (See our "Moon Meetings" paper.) But pagan feminist witchcraft might seem more nuts than more traditional spiritual beliefs which include bizarre rituals because we have much more familiarity with the latter, particularly those associated with the Abrahamic religions.https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1052986438357139456 …

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      Andy C. NgoVerified account @MrAndyNgo
      This is nuts. @kyrstensinema, who is the Democratic candidate for US-Senate in Arizona, was involved with the occult on issues of foreign policy. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sinema-invited-pagan-witches-to-anti-war-rally/ …
      9 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
    2. Keiko‏ @keikoinboston Oct 18
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I see this criticism as disingenuous Christian-based pagan panic. 1/

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    3. Keiko‏ @keikoinboston Oct 18
      Replying to @keikoinboston @HPluckrose

      In spite of our supposed separation of church and state, it is totally normal for politicians to invite faith groups to their events, to hold meetings w/ faith leaders, and to pray at houses of worship in their capacity as politicians or w/ faith leaders on government property.2/

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    4. Keiko‏ @keikoinboston Oct 18
      Replying to @keikoinboston @HPluckrose

      I doubt that when Republican politicians invite fringe Christian groups that the right-leaning media reports on it in the manner that they are reporting on Sinema. 3/

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 18
      Replying to @keikoinboston

      I'm not having a go at Andy and I agree it's nuts. I'm just pointing out that it's not objectively more nuts than Christian singing, praying, communion etc or Muslim bowing at the floor with your bum in the air or any number of Jewish rituals including bowing repeatedly at walls.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 18
      Replying to @HPluckrose @keikoinboston

      Humans are nuts. I include myself among them as I have a number of rituals of my own although none of them are religious and when I had OCD, they got diagnosed as nuts.

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    7. Keiko‏ @keikoinboston Oct 18
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Rituals can certainly be taken to an extreme but given their prevalence, is it fair to say that all rituals make humans nuts? It seems to just be human nature of different flavors.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 18
      Replying to @keikoinboston

      Yes. That's what I meant. As we define what is nuts as what diverges from normal human behaviour, we are not nuts. But if we try to look at ourselves objectively, I think we can see some thoroughly irrational behaviour in our species.

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        1. Stephen Rowe‏ @StephenRowe0 Oct 18
          Replying to @HPluckrose @keikoinboston

          Ritual has purpose for the group to which the ritual belongs. It's one of the methods of defining and reinforcing group membership, though it can also serve as a form of advertising through demonstration.

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