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Well, let's go back to worshipping the sun, then. Who knows, if we don't, it might not rise tomorrow... I think we'd be much better off being un-ironic sun-wor
by LAC-Tech 4y ago
Well, let's go back to worshipping the sun, then. Who knows, if we don't, it might not rise tomorrow...
I think we'd be much better off being un-ironic sun-worshipers than hollowed-out atomised atheists.
And I see that as someone who is sadly in the latter category.
- paulryanrogers 4y ago> I think we'd be much better off being un-ironic sun-worshipers... Better off worshipping unintelligent and non-existent beings, and all the foolish memes that inevitably accrete with magical thinking? > hollowed-out atomised atheists. Hollowed of what? Mostly harmful traditions many of which were designed to entrench unearned power and influence?
- LAC-Tech 4y agoYeah, exactly! Imagine of instead of typing all that negative conspiracy theory rubbish on HN, you were outside intermingling at your local sun temple.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoAtheism is a conspiracy theory? Or is there something in my comment history that strikes you as 'rubbish'?
- uoaei 4y agoHollowed of mystical modes of reasoning that provide unreasonably useful answers to our most pressing questions in a quasi-random fashion. You don't have to dig deep to find examples where this path outperforms "rationalist" approaches.