who are those believers? Abrahamic monotheists? if so, is it necessary that he is addressing them specifically? if so, is it necessary that he uses their language convention? if so, is it necessary that he remains orthodox within that convention?
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Replying to @danlistensto
Monotheists, polytheists, etc. The clear majority of people who purport to believe in Gods in the world purport to see them as agents. Defining God as some abstract phenomena that exists is just vacuous wordplay.
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Replying to @Intrinsic29
I don't follow. What do you suppose he's attempting to do here? Are you reading this as an attempt at theology? I don't think it is.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Intrinsic29
He's asserting a Necessary Meta-radicalism- just like the postmodernists, coincidentally. In *his* jargon, "faith" or "foundation" is his god. So: I'd call it theology.
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Replying to @averykimball @Intrinsic29
I don't know what Necessary Meta-radicalism means. Google didn't help much. I haven't seen the term used elsewhere. I can accept that this is a variety of theology, but not done in the manner of a priest, or any authority figure. I really think it's just psychology though.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Intrinsic29
Yeah, but *he's* the one tangling up psychology and theology. "God" is the assumptions you make, and the implicit theories you reason with? Come on, Peterson.
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Replying to @averykimball @Intrinsic29
how about "God is the organizing principle of creation" combined with "your own mind is part of creation"?
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Replying to @danlistensto @Intrinsic29
I feel like I can't engage with this critically because it doesn't say enough to reason about. Is "god" just a label for an unexplained organizing principle, or are we supposed to bring all the baggage of "god" to bear on the problem of explaining this principle?
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Replying to @averykimball @Intrinsic29
well there's the rub. which do you prefer: the label or the mytheme? seems like at some point you do have to make a value judgment w.r.t how you feel about the mytheme and then decide to use it or lose it. personally I go with lose it, but it does work for other people.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Intrinsic29
Imma think more on this, but mytheme is a cool word. I haven't heard it before. Is there a difference between mytheme and meme or memeplex?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytheme Mytheme is to mythology as Phoneme is to Phonology
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