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There should be an extremist cult of people who are certain only that uncertainty is the only certain thing
by bobson381 1y ago
There should be an extremist cult of people who are certain only that uncertainty is the only certain thing
- mapontosevenths 1y agoThere already is, they're called "Politicians."
- ameliaquining 1y agoLike Robert Anton Wilson if he were way less chill, perhaps.
- rpcope1 1y agoMore people should read Sextus Empiricus as he's basically the O.G. Phyrronist skeptic and goes pretty hard on this very train of thought.
- bobson381 1y agoCool. Any specific recs or places to start with him?
- Telemakhos 1y agoIf I remember my Gellius, it was the Academic Skeptics who claimed that the only certainty was uncertainty; the Pyrrhonists, in opposition, denied that one could be certain about the certainty of uncertainty.
- arwhatever 1y ago“Oh, that must be exhausting.”
- saltcured 1y agoThere would be, except we're all very much on the fence about whether it is the right cult for us.
- hungmung 1y agoWhat makes you so certain there isn't? A group that has a deep understanding fnord of uncertainty would probably like to work behind the scenes to achieve their goals.
- card_zero 1y agoThe Snatter Goblins? https://archive.org/details/goblinsoflabyrin0000frou/page/109/mode/1up?q=%22snatter+goblins%22 https://archive.org/details/goblinsoflabyrin0000frou/page/10...
- pancakemouse 1y agoMy favourite bumper sticker, "Militant Agnostic. I don't know, and neither do you."
- bobson381 1y agoI heard about this the other day! I think I need one.
- jazzyjackson 1y agoA Wonderful Phrase by Gandhi I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever-changing, ever-dying there is, underlying all that change, a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and recreates
- tim333 1y agoSocrates was fairly close to that.
- freedomben 1y agoMy thought as well! I can't remember names at the moment, but there were some cults that spun off from Socrates. Unfortunately they also adopted his practice of never writing anything down, so we don't know a whole lot about them
- JTbane 1y ago"I have no strong feelings one way or the other." thunderous applause
- tomjakubowski 1y agohttps://realworldrisk.com/ https://realworldrisk.com/
- Viliam1234 1y agoYou mean like this? https://www.readthesequences.com/Zero-And-One-Are-Not-Probabilities https://www.readthesequences.com/Zero-And-One-Are-Not-Probab...