Best-fit pattern in which of my friends have gone off the deep end into a conspiracy mindset: what I’d call a religious temperament (100%), a weak sense of humor (90%), and an inflated sense of their own importance (75%).
My sample is at least a dozen at this point.
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what are the components parts of what you call a religious temperament?
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It’s a gestalt of several things: a strong purity instinct, a conviction that existence is meaningful, that perfection is reachable, etc etc.
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I was brought back from the edge by the banality of evil conversation myself. The funny thing is that what "makes things shitty" is always really simple... People would rather it be complicated in stunningly nuanced weird ways.
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Spot on. Extreme (devoted) religious thinking is basically the opposite of Occam’s Razor, where the least likely, most complex explanation is deemed the best. Exactly the same as conspiracy theories. Let’s call it “Billy Graham’s big fat blunt knife” to give it a moniker.
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