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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. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 21 Jul 2017

      Clay Routledge in the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/opinion/sunday/dont-believe-in-god-maybe-youll-try-ufos.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0 …

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    2. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 21 Jul 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev

      Intriguing thesis - people who move away from religion still have a religious instinct which they invest in other equally weird beliefs.

      3 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 21 Jul 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev

      Absolutely! We only think of it as a religious instinct because that was what it has been primarily mediated through for so long.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 21 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Of course, he could be wrong. It may be that the meme picture is a better explanation.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 21 Jul 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev

      I didn't read it but I do think its not religion specifically so many of us are drawn to. But yes, I could be wrong. The meme picture?

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 21 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Dawkins' explanation for religion. Some ideas just seem to scream 'copy me'. Religion is an information virus.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 21 Jul 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev

      I don't think the two are mutually exclusive tho. We need both the tendency to believe in weird shit & weird shit to spread.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 21 Jul 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev

      I hardly know anyone who believes in God now but so many people who believe in ghosts, mediums, psychics, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience

      2:57 PM - 21 Jul 2017
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      • Tamara Brouwer antihero_kate (((Christian JB))) 🐌
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        2. Avner‏ @avnerarik 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev

          human need spiritual sustenance...that was "opium of the masses" meaning.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @avnerarik @christianjbdev

          They need something. Our best hope is it to make it something other than nonsense.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Avner‏ @avnerarik 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev

          san harris have reach this rock on his way, how to explain "been lucky or unlucky" everyone i know uses "God", it scales rational.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @avnerarik @christianjbdev

          Could you rephrase? I think we have a language barrier there.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Avner‏ @avnerarik 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev

          i was talking about explaining the idea of "been lucky" having luck in life...how to do it without the concept of God...

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @avnerarik @christianjbdev

          How do you do it with God? I don't see why God would be indicated. Its not as tho believers in a particular one have more luck.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Avner‏ @avnerarik 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev

          you have been "blessed", a lovely family, a cat a dog, a job that you enjoy...God or Nature or Cosmic Justice...religion "try" to explain it

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @avnerarik @christianjbdev

          I don't see the need to explain it with any of those. I was born into a time where these things are possible.

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        2. antihero_kate‏ @antihero_kate 21 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev

          Shortly after my sister died I went down the pseudoscience rabbit hole looking 4 any excuse 2 believe she lived on. It was a grief thing tho

          3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 21 Jul 2017
          Replying to @antihero_kate @HPluckrose

          That's so sad. I've never had to deal with that kind of grief.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Galen Moran‏ @OnYouLikeGlue 22 Jul 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev

          I ditched my god belief way before I dropped my belief in Bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts. Wife use to tease me all the time about that.

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