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That feeling you talk about in your last sentence is one that's familiar to me as well, because I get it all the time when reading SSC, and we've got to be susp
by quacked 7y ago
That feeling you talk about in your last sentence is one that's familiar to me as well, because I get it all the time when reading SSC, and we've got to be suspicious of it- that's exactly how people who read <religious literature, cult creeds, academic papers> that confirms their preexisting ideas feel.
- skrebbel 7y agoI'm aware of the trap (it's why I added "not to my knowledge"), but to be honest I'm not sure how to avoid it. Any tips?
- TeMPOraL 7y agoNot every thing you read is meant to change your mind. I had this feeling with SSC too (more frequently in the past, in the Meditations on Moloch era, less so now), but I can clearly tell that I had pieces of those ideas developed on my own, and an SSC article only let me put them in a refined form. (Having been brought up in a pretty cultish religion, I'm now painfully aware of cultishness works.)