As someone who came out of this subculture, you really do never know how much they mean shit like this and how much they're bullshittinghttps://twitter.com/AndrewRestuccia/status/1348382682414256129 …
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Like even just charitably speaking about people who really do believe they hear God's voice - I strongly believe it's really important to at least try to understand why you're making a decision when you make them This kind of mystical shit is directly designed to obscure that
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Ironically I get this from CS Lewis, when he said the only two reasons you should ever do anything are that you want to or you ought to - there's a whole third category of reasons that don't fit into either bucket that you should just discard
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And the whole "Listen for God's voice" thing is explicitly designed to confuse these three categories with each other and refuse to unpack them Make it sound like you're morally obligated to do something you just want to do, or that some charismatic figure says you should do
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I read one of Taibbi's books (before he became whatever he is now) where he went to a megachurch in Texas and wrote about how phony it all was, like everyone was putting on the way they do in North Korea
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