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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Replying to @NoraReed
and the funny thing is, it's the same kind of flaw in human thinking that leads us to thinking there are gods and ghosts
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and it's just ridiculous that people will figure out that there are hundreds of thousands of toast pieces that don't look like jesus
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so the one piece of toast that does have a jesus like image in it isn't really exceptional, it's just a statistics thing that happens
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the people who managed to get that don't decide to move on and think "hey, maybe other things i learned my whole life were wrong, too"
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"maybe the same thing that makes most people stick to the faith that they were raised with as absolute truth happens to me, too"
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"maybe that happened with (gender, capitalism, hierarchy, race, etc)" they don't do that, because it's uncomfortable
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anyway that's why movement skepticism/atheism is completely useless towards actually correcting flaws in how we think
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movement atheism is deciding that because you've figured out that Best Buy isn't always really the best buy, the store doesn't exist
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Replying to @chaosprime
this sounds clever but i'm not parsing it. can you elaborate, if you feel like it?
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sure. what i'm saying is that "gods" and such have a referents in social systems, which old timey fuckers like Sophocles understood fine.
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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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