a big, contentious, people-flouncing-out-of-the-DM-group argument about astrology this morning has forced me to work out what i really think about divination. you may be shocked to learn that i'm a hardcore materialist, just not, as i said to my astrologer pal once, a basic one
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Replying to @chaosprime
Can you elaborate more on being a hardcore materialist? You believe that absolutely nothing aside from matter exists? What does it mean to exist?
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matter, energy, space, and time at least all i'm really doing is denying that dealing with things that exist on other levels of abstraction than the ones our basic senses handle requires imagining them to be constituted of some special undetectable gooey spiritual substance
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gods and demons and what-the-fuck-have-you exist in the same way that the derivative of a function exists: pragmaticallyhttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/917802824305664000 …
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Chaos @chaosprimeReplying to @suchaone @EchoExit_ @hikikomorphismwell, start from the basic demonstration of egregore existence: your neighbors all believe in the god Blorg who forbids rubbing marshmallow fluff on your genitals on Tuesday. you rub marshmallow fluff on your genitals on Tuesday and they beat you to death with sticks.1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
i'm convinced that spiritual dualism leads to understanding these things poorly and childishly, and i like people empowered so that bugs me
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