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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      I think the main thing I took from science fiction was wallowing in the pessimism of authors like James Tiptree or Peter Watts The POV that all of this shit happened by chance, there is no God, evolution is a mindless heartless force The world doesn't really want you here

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      And people really really resist and resent this message Like a lot of people say they're atheists and believe in the basic tenets of materialism and evolution but they don't get what that really means They still talk like an Intelligent Designer set all this up for a reason

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      Like... it's not a fair game you're intended to be able to win The challenge of living a good life is not a good faith challenge, with rules and a referee so that it's doable if you work hard and don't cheat and figure out the correct solution It is completely not that

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      When I was a teen I was really into Christian apologetics, which is largely based on just refusing to think certain thoughts because they hurt A lot of it was this argument from perversity, what @AlexandraErin calls the Shirley Principle "Oh, no, surely not"

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      A big argument for the existence of God is this circular thing about the argument from desire or argument from need The idea that if human beings desire something, like a relationship with their Creator, such a thing must therefore exist and be possible

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      That it would be perverse, cruel, just WRONG to give people a desire for something that doesn't exist and therefore can never be fulfilled Well, why the fuck not? The only reason to believe such a thing is impossible is believing in God in the first place

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      It is, in principle, trivially easy to imagine a desire for something that doesn't exist and can't be satisfied - a desire for a three-sided square, a desire to be simultaneously hot and cold, a desire for the comfort of being loved without the terror of being known

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      You could easily program a robot that wants there to be a three-sided square and spends eons trying to stick three 90-degree angles together and never actually succeeds and therefore is always unhappy and always will be unhappy It sounds more like the human condition than not

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      So I mean this family discourse "It's built into the way human development works: we all start as helpless babies, we need some adult or group of adults to have absolute power over is to survive, and those adults will have a profound effect on our psyche" Okay and that's bad

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      "But it's natural and inescapable!" Doesn't make it not bad "If it's the way we evolved to develop then it means we have no choice but to find a way to grow up this way without trauma and regret" Just cause you have no choice but to do it doesn't make it possible

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Dec 2020

      "So what, you're saying give up on happiness? Give up on a better world? Give up on the future of the human race?" Maybe! I dunno! Just cause we're here doesn't mean we're "supposed" to be here, just cause we're trying doesn't mean we're "supposed" to ever succeed

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        2. Xavier G. Richardson‏ @XavierGRichard1 14 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do. We don't know if life has any meaning beyond what we give it. So fuck it. Who gives a shit? Live your life. Do the best you can with what you've got. I say this as someone who believes in Jesus with all my heart and soul.

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        3. Xavier G. Richardson‏ @XavierGRichard1 14 Dec 2020
          Replying to @XavierGRichard1 @arthur_affect

          You don't need a deity to tell you to be kind and good. You don't need one to give your life meaning, either. Helps, maybe, but eh. Find your own way.

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        1. Ryan Rodman‏ @Rodman1_r2 14 Dec 2020
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          I might have to unfollow you dude, just saying. I struggle with these thoughts daily and I already have enough anxiety as it is. (I just want to live my life without having to think about it, don't need any more reminders than I already give myself.) :/

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        1. Kait Richardson‏ @potaterator 15 Dec 2020
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          That's basically how I feel, at least regarding some inherent "purpose". Also, I've never understood why I should care about the future of humanity. Genes may be selected for survival and propagation, but that says nothing about how you "ought" to feel.

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        2. not a tame owl  🦉‏ @NorsEllie 15 Dec 2020
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          That truth frees us to focus on what kind of life and what kind of world we want, and to make decisions and take action toward it, and to struggle with other humans over our different wants.

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        3. not a tame owl  🦉‏ @NorsEllie 15 Dec 2020
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          It’s the opposite of giving up on anything; it makes everything a decision, and therefore a responsibility.

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        2. Spacebeard‏ @spacebeard 15 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Evolution requires that we are programmed to fear death, but also demands we die. We can't ever like it, we can only become bored with obsessing over it . fear becomes angst becomes resigned nihilism.

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        3. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 15 Dec 2020
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          Evolution doesn't require any such thing. We don't fear death because of "evolution". It's a ridiculous statement on the face of it.

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