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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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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 28

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted The American Conservative

    Except that 'atheist' isn't defined as someone whose ancestors didn't believe in god(s) or someone whose brain doesn't have the same evolved cognitive stuff that makes humans prone to believing in gods.https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/989708213787357184 …

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    "If you think you are an atheist you are wrong, says Peterson, because your mind has been bent and shaped and molded by a god-fearing past stretching back into the unfathomable abysm of time." https://theam.cn/2JjSOJY 
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      2. Josh Boeke‏ @JoshBoeke Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        There are admittedly legitimate theories that people cannot escape a belief in the supernatural. If you don’t believe in ghosts, for example, but feel fear when alone in a “haunted” room in the dark, is that implicit belief in ghosts? It seems unclear. Not sure it matters though.

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      3. Josh Boeke‏ @JoshBoeke Apr 28
        Replying to @JoshBoeke @HPluckrose

        For all practical purposes an atheist is an atheist, at least in so far as beliefs can influence actions. Some feelings are not operating on the level of the conscious though and may be prone to evolved flaws in agency detection that are not cognitively penetrable.

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      2. Shea‏ @SheamusCogan Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        "It is hard to recall a recent bestseller that’s been so misread, so misunderstood, and so misrepresented." 🤔

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      3. Wilf Ratzburg‏ @pop2cas Apr 28
        Replying to @SheamusCogan @HPluckrose

        Occasionally Peterson gets some things right. On this he is wrong.

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      4. Shea‏ @SheamusCogan Apr 28
        Replying to @pop2cas @HPluckrose

        Perfect example of someone wilfully or otherwise misinterpreting what has actually been said because they are focussed on apportioning subjective right or wrong values - we're supposed to be prompted to think more not blindly accept his or others subjectivity

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      1. T.J.‏ @tjaffry Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        You are responding to clickbait.

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      1. Giulia Piccolino‏ @gpiccolino83 Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Peterson is a smart but very intellectually dishonest person. This is not the only example...

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      1. Lynette Craig‏ @Nothercupacafe Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Oy. Eagle eyeroll Jordan.pic.twitter.com/jrQqMjJn2u

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      2. John Dukenford‏ @dukenford Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Is 'atheist' defined as 'someone who doesn't believe in god(s)' or 'someone who says he doesn't believe in god(s)'? I understand Peterson as suggesting that you cannot take people's beliefs as what they self-report, but as what drives their actions.

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      3. Pallor Ergo Doom‏ @SlagOffTwits Apr 28
        Replying to @dukenford @HPluckrose

        That's the thing with JBP... His gibberish doesn't have any rational, clear meaning, so everyone assigns their own. He doesn't obey his own admonishments for clarity.

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      4. John Dukenford‏ @dukenford Apr 28
        Replying to @SlagOffTwits @HPluckrose

        It is difficult, I agree. Mostly due to the fact that he often speaks about the 'phenomenological world' without clearly stating that he is. For me, at least, it has been worthwile to try and understand him. It has broadened my worldview somewhat.

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      5. Pallor Ergo Doom‏ @SlagOffTwits Apr 28
        Replying to @dukenford @HPluckrose

        Lol! If that is true, I think YOU deserve the credit, not JBP.

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      2. Daniel Oakes‏ @DanOakesWriter Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It's only about 1/5 of people who think they're atheists who are wrong (no, I'm serious...see paragraph 5). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/23/ST2008062300818.html …

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      3. Daniel Oakes‏ @DanOakesWriter Apr 28
        Replying to @DanOakesWriter @HPluckrose

        (Yes, I know I cheated by borrowing the agnostics, but it was still too funny (to me) to pass up).

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      2. Irene Ogrizek‏ @ireneogrizek Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        There's a good argument for displacement, i.e., groups uphold certain values that serve the same function as religion. I've known a lot of atheists & I've always been surprised at how religious their arguments against a belief in God sound.I'm agnostic & have no skin in the game.

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      1. NewYorkEgg‏ @EggAccount1648 Apr 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        To be fair, & without having read the source material, was that a fair quote of Petersen, or a “hot take”?

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      1. Rooster King  🇮🇹‏ @R00sterKing Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        The title is clickbait, that is not what he meant

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      1. Roxane‏ @brigadam Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Is a person who uses deepities to make profound points actually making profound points? 😉

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      1. Adam Sheridan‏ @MuckTheDog Apr 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        If what he's saying is true then so is the other side. If you think you are a theist you are right... etc etc. Kind of reduces human beliefs to the zombie level.

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