good / interesting thread RTing the last tweet, which kinda sucks cause now you've got to scroll up, but it's expressly this tweet in the sequence I want to chain off of. It occurs to me that the decline in values in the post-Christian era (we kind of have some, but >>>https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/1221913761348382720 …
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2/ the woke gospel is not so much "do this and your soul will be in good shape", but "DON'T BE CAUGHT doing the opposite, or you will suffer socially". This is not the same class of values.) anyway, it occurs to me that the decline in the former, and the replacement w latter >
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3/ drives so much of the craziness and the trigger happiness we see in the Great aWokening. To exaggerate to make a point, in 1950, or 1850 or 1750 you could accuse a man of not giving enough to charity, or some other sin, and he could, if he was inclined, shrug it off.
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4/ "an honest man's pillow is his peace of mind" "that's between me and God" "I'm comfortable that my Maker understands me"
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5/ But under fully automated luxury terrestrial communism, there is no God, or if there is, she is very small and very far away, and mostly cares about carbon neutrality and refugees. ...so allegations that you once laughed at a joke about non-binary people back in the 1970s >
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6/ is full and complete social death. Having values that are not subject to mob interpretation, and holding yourself out to judgement only by God means not that you can - with great self discipline - force yourself to go against the mob. It means not even CARING about the mob.
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agreed ; similar and overlapping arguments!
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