@FullPresence well good on her, then, contributing! i'm embarrassed about my Rand phase mostly b/c i hate remembering the whole geek…
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@chaosprime Basically that it is the ultimate surrender of thinking. -
@FullPresence oh, well, yeah. or at least a species thereof. depending on whether your usage of "religion" requires woo or not. -
@chaosprime I think LaVey was honest about that; yes, it does, but if you do so knowingly somehow it make sense. -
@FullPresence mostly i mean that subsuming your cognition in a system can happen outside of things we normally think of as "religions" -
@FullPresence which iirc Rand addressed by calling Leninism a religion, which seems like terminology abuse to me, but whatevs -
@FullPresence also: every time somebody mentions Uncle Anton i am helpless to not remember how he wrote an essay in which he predicted that… -
@FullPresence …in the future we would all become exactly the chair-bound people depicted on the spaceship in WALL-E
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