Christmas is aesthetically catastrophic. The lights are mostly ok, but everything else is garish, mishapen. Trees dying in your apartments, brain dead sing song blaring from every speaker, inane symbolism long unmoored from any spiritual roots. Wake me when it's over.
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Rationalism is fascist?
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Yes. Humanism does not follow from rationalism.
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Could you not also argue that rationalism leads to nihilism or apatheism? And do you think that humanism contradicts the 'greater whole/good'. Sounds like a moral dilemma. I guess that's what you meant with 'skip biggest problem'...
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No, the advice to skip your biggest problem is just a generic heuristic for mental issues. The thing that you consider your biggest problem is something that you could not solve in the past, so it may not have a solution, because the problem is elsewhere.
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Funny that most designers of intelligence don’t believe in an intelligent designer.
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Because they believe in Ockham’s Razor
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Interesting Joscha, i would love to see you expand on this maybe in a blog post or something. But where is the evidence that we have a crisis of meaning. Why do you think humans need to have this higher purpose? As our knowledge expands, the idea of god gets a little smaller
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Isn’t that what Nietzsche put forward with “God is dead”. It’s not that a supreme being suddenly died but that the belief on such an entity withered to the point of a value / meaning crisis. Still, we might find purpose in our scientificist narratives.
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