Science fiction is the dominant religion of modernity. A lazy, wishful, and comforting extension of a default way of knowing about real things to a way of imagining nice things.
Older epochs of religion simply do that with less powerful default ways of knowing
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So I guess I’m religious after all. Science without science fiction is like candles, lamps, and incense in places of worship without prayer. Just a way to make light and nice smells.
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Too bad isn’t here to witness another convert to his favorite life attitude “religious but not spiritual”
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Remember that time you asked for a bad faith question: this would have been a nice answer to a bad faith question that i cannot put together right now.
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Isn’t dharma the more woke way to approach such spiritual matters? It’s not about an idealized worldview so much as how it gets put into action. Also etymologically religion has lotta “thou shalt” embedded within.
Many thanks to for his great lessons.




