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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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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.
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Science will greatly benefit from accepting its religious nature. It claims that its pure goal is to understand how the world _really_ works, opposing itself to any beliefs. This is either hypocrisy or arrogance, depending on the strength of faith.
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