People who call me arrogant must seriously not know anything about Jewish culture. Every Orthodox Jew grows up hearing stories about all the famous Jews who got into arguments with God, and the most admired figures of all are those who, like Moses, won their arguments.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
Might this explain why Jews are overrepresented in groundbreaking science? I.e. No impulse to take the outside view because of years of status regulation slap down
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Replying to @amasad @ESYudkowsky
Once you turn your tribal God into a purely transcendental God, but bypass the state God of the Catholics or Muslims, the normative claims of your group don't rest on God's properties, and you become free to question all about Him without someone having to nail you to a tree.
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