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[life-insane]

Running from my problems like: 👻🎃👟 (at Terror in the Corn)

[argumate]

Look when I claimed that America was a pumpkin-strewn dystopian hellscape I was only joking

[mitigatedchaos]

Only a fucking coward would say there are too many pumpkins in this country.

You’re not a coward,

are you, Argumate?

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“Capitalism with a Human Face”

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[nuclearspaceheater]

tfw your early writings that would ruin you if connected to your life now, can’t be, because the name you wrote them under was so unoriginal that other people have made dozens of accounts with the same name and a higher pagerank than any of yours.

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RE: Negative Singularity Anon:

Obviously, this belongs in the Spooky Stories for Rationalists book.

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Anonymous asked:

One frightening possibility I have considered: Hell is not merely a misunderstanding of a single thing, but a conflation of two misunderstood things: the aforementioned cessation of existence for people who fail to recognize God, and an inevitable manmade Unfriendly Singularity that will cause a finite but vast amount of suffering for every person so unlucky as to be assimilated into it.

is this the thing where souls are tormented for some amount of time and then destroyed?  I think at least one sect of one religion believes in that.

if it isn’t that, you’ll have to elaborate.

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Anonymous asked:

IMO it's not as alien as you might think, so long as you accept the existence of Heaven. Life as we know it is a minute portion of our life cycle, a tutorial, if you will. God is trying to make as many distinct beings as possible to enjoy eternity in Heaven; our finite sufferings here are random seeds for those beings, and the infinite joy that is to come infinitely outweighs it. It's not alien, just... Correct.

that sounds like something an alien would say

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ascalaphidae asked:

Have you heard of Rob Bell and/or his book Love Wins? Quote: "It's been clearly communicated to many that this belief (in hell as conscious, eternal torment) is a central truth of the Christian faith and to reject it is, in essence, to reject Jesus. This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy" That eternal torment by a loving good is *insane* isn't strictly an atheist belief

TBH, one thing I thought about from time to time is that if you’ve got an adversary figure with real magic powers, it could fake a bunch of miracles and make a fake religion with a fake Word of God, and even influence the emotions of people to make them feel like they were getting a real connection out of that.  And how would you know?

But just inserting a few sprinkles here and there in the right places of an ordinary holy book could be pretty effective.

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Anonymous asked:

Over in more worldly concerns, spiders *still* make considerably better and sexier vampires than bats; this is an untapped opportunity.

Don’t worry, we’ll get to your other ask, I just didn’t want to dump it in the middle of a big pile of religious argument.

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Anonymous asked:

But yeah, the implications for theology convinced me of MWI's truth value significantly more than its implications for physics did.

I mean, the incongruence of infinite punishment convinced me more that religion was false than a number of things, so that does make sense.

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Anonymous asked:

IMO the many worlds interpretation is the single most shockingly underused response to the "omniscience of God vs free will" dilemma; I suppose that Christian apologists and theoretical physicists must simply travel in the same circles infrequently. God knows exactly what you're going to do, and the answer is an unimaginably large number of different things which separate yous will experience. Every moment has a single past and a vast variety of futures.

That was along the lines of something I considered, although I don’t really believe in Many Worlds myself.

Omnibenevolence shouldn’t be something we look at and it’s clearly wrong, but it could be something we look at and it’s clearly alien.  So, “make all possible worlds, such that all possible people have a chance to exist” is more along the lines of what one would expect.  Or, “God cannot imagine a world without creating it” (nesting realities proposal) “and this is part of the reason evil exists - lack of infinite forethought”.