"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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Replying to @NoraReed
"maybe that happened with (gender, capitalism, hierarchy, race, etc)" they don't do that, because it's uncomfortable
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Replying to @NoraReed
anyway that's why movement skepticism/atheism is completely useless towards actually correcting flaws in how we think
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Replying to @NoraReed
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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Replying to @NoraReed
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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Replying to @chaosprime @NoraReed
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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Replying to @chaosprime
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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Replying to @NoraReed @chaosprime
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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Replying to @NoraReed
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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it's a machine made of people that converts people into parts for itself; corporations are its nimbler, scrappier, even hungrier cousins
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Replying to @chaosprime
so you can sort of think of existing social mechanisms as gods in a kind of chaos magic way?
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Replying to @NoraReed
yup, from a pragmatism perspective. if people believe that Blorf prohibits wearing marshmallow fluff as a hat, and you wear marshmallow...
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