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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      (I took the challenge to watch the slaughterhouse video and I still eat meat I don't think that's necessarily a good decision, I certainly don't think it means I "passed a test" -- it's a totally meaningless gesture in the end But also, like, literally the least you can do)

      3 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    2. muddlewait‏ @muddlewait 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      Maybe so, but being willing to surrender one’s moral superiority and acknowledge that one isn’t a Good Person who Deserves Good Things is IMO important. That’s again something Christians nominally believe, until they start talking about suffering people having made “bad choices”

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @muddlewait @loudpenitent and

      The thing about Christianity is that the radical humility they profess to aspire to is extremely rare and the person who has it wouldn't necessarily be a moral paragon but would at least be admirable for achieving such a different perspective from the depressing human default

      1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and

      But of course they don't actually do it Of course they don't, the idea of such a person -- "Christlike" -- is exciting because it's almost impossible to be that It's so much easier and more rewarding to pretend you've become like that, but actually stay the same

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and

      Not that they're special -- Buddhists aren't all that enlightened as a class of people either, and atheist rationalbros aren't very rational But the Christian "born again" narrative makes the way they deal with constantly falling short of their ideal a real headtrip

      2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    6. muddlewait‏ @muddlewait 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      Yeah, the point is not to perfect or justify yourself, but to admit your failings, surrender superiority over others, throw yourself at cosmic mercy and still try your best, knowing you will always fail. But it turns out that even just admitting fault is too high a price for most

      2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @muddlewait @loudpenitent and

      My cynical take on religions is that all religions offer you this pathway of some kind to becoming a better person, and cultural differences aside (and sexism and queerphobia and shit aside) I don't think any of the definitions of "better person" are all that bad

      1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and

      It's just that that's not the part people actually do Like in my darkest moments I don't even blame the religion People just... don't become better people

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and

      Any system or mindset or program you give to people to try to make them better people, they will find a way to do it so they can say the did it without the part where they became better people "Flexibly inflexible", like they say, infinite paths to route around real change

      1 reply 3 retweets 15 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and

      I mean this is a very Christian POV itself In the Gospels people keep on asking Jesus how to be better people and he keeps telling them and they don't do it But it's a running theme you see lots of places, Zen Buddhism developed as a direct reaction to this

      1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and

      Maybe it's not even a bad thing, I dunno People keep saying talking about virtue is easy and doing it is hard and therefore cheap talk is an active evil because it saps the will to make real change But hey maybe most people really just can't change

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and

          So maybe talking about it enough and thinking about it enough so they at least feel bad isn't... good enough, but it's *something*, isn't it It's better than nothing (I think this is what the whole central question of Bojack ended up being)

          1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
        3. muddlewait‏ @muddlewait 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          It can at least help people get used to the idea of not actively resisting a slightly kinder option once it’s made physically easy enough, and putting some resources into developing that option Like, maybe get people to eat impossiburgers or something Not a lot, but not NOTHING

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        1. muddlewait‏ @muddlewait 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          This is what frustrates me so much about my family All the pieces are already in their beliefs: original sin and divine acknowledgement of and accounting for that All they have to do is admit what they supposedly believe, that they need the same mercy as others And they don’t

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