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But it's also not really functioning is it? Once you've eaten the forbidden fruit, taken the redpill (the movie one, not the political one), you can't go back,

But it's also not really functioning is it? Once you've eaten the forbidden fruit, taken the redpill (the movie one, not the political one), you can't go back, you're screwed. Living on a lie that you know to solely exist for comfort is not the same as genuine belief, and it is fundamentally broke. If you just run back into the matrix and pretend it's real because it's pleasant, in a sense you've managed to be more nihilistic than the nihilist and in a way schizophrenic because you have to live something you actually know not to be authentic. There is a lot of figures in our culture today who basically advocate this. People who declare themselves to be atheists but tell disoriented youth to just 'pretend to believe'. And it really has the quality of LARPing. It will not move anyone forward philosophically.

WatchDog 5y ago
> There is a lot of figures in our culture today who basically advocate this. People who declare themselves to be atheists but tell disoriented youth to just 'pretend to believe'. And it really has the quality of LARPing. It will not move anyone forward philosophically. I think you can come up with your own (stretched) interpretation of Christianity that doesn't require belief in the divine, and I think that approach, taking an existing societal value system that works pretty well, makes a lot more sense than trying to build a new one from scratch and getting everyone to buy into it. Personally speaking, I used to be somewhat of a militant atheist. I was really engaged with the whole new athiest movement of 00's. But I've distanced myself from that, I certainly don't try anymore to persuade people away from their belief. I don't describe myself as a Christian, although I do think that western society is built upon it's values. Maybe that's LARPing, inauthentic, not philosophically rigorous, but it's good enough for me.

WatchDog 5y ago

> There is a lot of figures in our culture today who basically advocate this. People who declare themselves to be atheists but tell disoriented youth to just 'pretend to believe'. And it really has the quality of LARPing. It will not move anyone forward philosophically. I think you can come up with your own (stretched) interpretation of Christianity that doesn't require belief in the divine, and I think that approach, taking an existing societal value system that works pretty well, makes a lot more sense than trying to build a new one from scratch and getting everyone to buy into it. Personally speaking, I used to be somewhat of a militant atheist. I was really engaged with the whole new athiest movement of 00's. But I've distanced myself from that, I certainly don't try anymore to persuade people away from their belief. I don't describe myself as a Christian, although I do think that western society is built upon it's values. Maybe that's LARPing, inauthentic, not philosophically rigorous, but it's good enough for me.