this kind of thing isn't just an atheist problem, it's a fundamental flaw of human perception, that we assume what we learn is natural
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but abstractions make for bad branding so a lot of hilarious fluff grew up around the concept, all of it just fucking ridiculous
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oh, okay. the way i think of this is with gods as models, just like the ones we have for, say, molecules
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so they mostly explain stuff but then the context gets stripped and you end up going to war with someone because of quantum mechanics
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that's a good avenue of thinking yeah. what i'm saying is that, for example, the Torah is the source code for a god called "is/was/will be"
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that is very snow crash
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snow crash is barely even distorting anything for story purposes, our neal knows some shit
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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. He's got really bullshit evopsycho ideas and 90% of what he thinks he knows about linguistics is just wrong.
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yeah, the way the snow crash virus winds up working is, uh, heavily dramatized to say the least
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