Leibnizean optimism was invented to retain a “job” for god in a deterministic universe
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Yet another line of thought where I can tell I’m on the right track and it’s just a matter of getting the words right to efficiently get past all the predictable objections to the potentially interesting conversations.
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All my more serious writing challenges tend to evolve through that valley of the shadow of death by a 1000 semantic quibbles, because the words aren’t yet right enough to sneak past normalcy fields. Hacking through the OODA loops of well-rehearsed derp-defenses, one at a time.
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One of my Everests is writing a thing that makes interesting theists and atheists go “huh?” but derp-theists and derp-atheists don’t even recognize as salient to their concerns. Stealth kidnapping project, where you steal away core of a debate from people who think they own it.
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Heh, the primary example I had in mind for the original tweet was “market” and zero of the free marketers I usually argue with noticed
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A basic error many people seem to make is assuming everybody’s escapism is the same. Or more cautiously, that 2 people who nominally subscribe to the same religion must be escaping from the same thing. I have yet to encounter 2 people with even approximately similar escapisms.
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People who get closest are ones who have opted into, and paid a similar cost to enter, similar lifestyles. For eg, 2 people who broke into Silicon Valley at roughly same personal cost, to earn a similar lifestyle as reward, have similar escapisms, and therefore similar religions.
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I’ve been digging this damn tunnel out of Shawshank since 2015, and finally starting to get somewhere https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/01/16/on-the-design-of-escaped-realities/ … https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/01/can-you-hear-me-now/ …
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Curiously, and uncharacteristically, Buddhism adopts the strongest, most reified “all escapisms are equal” stance (dukkha) at an intellectual level if not at a praxis level. This is possibly a better definition of monotheism than “one god”... “one escapism”
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In this framework, procrastination is failed religiosity. Things you’ve failed to stop ignoring despite wanting and trying to. For example I have a failed religiosity around paperwork. Even as we speak, I procrastinating on some expense reports, tax prep, and a few other things
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True of first-order atheist debates vs institutional religion. When they go up against sophisticated theologians like Carse, they have to debate source of ghosts and such: search for meaning, and either defend nihilism (Rick on Rick and Morty) or that science can sustain meaning.
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