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The religious version in fact seems more restrained in its promises, with the "arrested" bit at the end. (Not unexpectedly BTW; IMO comparing any such pitch to
by _yosefk 11y ago
The religious version in fact seems more restrained in its promises, with the "arrested" bit at the end. (Not unexpectedly BTW; IMO comparing any such pitch to a religion is usually a compliment to the pitch, as religions of today evolved over many centuries and so are better debugged than many an age-of-reason attempt at scientific-sounding wisdom. And personally I'm deeply not religious, but still.)
I did read that rats run faster towards a reward than they run from a punishment etc., so yeah, scarcity vs abundance, sure, but if someone is paid to coach me when I have a deadline to meet, I'll show them some abundance.
- kaybe 11y agoI suspect many religions also suffer heavily from legacy issues. Maybe a rewrite would help, debugged or not.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoThe original technical debt.
- douche 11y agoChristianity in particular seems to suffer from the Lava Layer pattern[1] [1] http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-pattern.html http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-p...
- Animats 11y agoThe religious version in fact seems more restrained in its promises I picked one of the more conservative sites promoting "abundance". There are much worse. See "Prosperity Theology" in Wikipedia. That, however, seems to have declined since the 2008 recession. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
- _yosefk 11y agoSure there are worse sites - I wasn't 100% serious there...