Fundamentalism v. Rationality

11:11:31 AM+Renjinhttps://www.vox.com/2018/5/30/17405720/liberty-evangelical-movie-trump-prophecy
11:11:42 AM+RenjinEvangelicals are incredibly weak-minded humans.
11:11:48 AM+Renjin"Liberty University students and faculty are making The Trump Prophecy."
11:12:54 AM+Dreamst39if God chose Trump...He has a sick sense of humor
11:13:58 AM+RenjinThere are no gods.
11:14:10 AM+RenjinThis is obvious to all non-moronic people who live in modernity.
11:14:45 AM+NoSetAlarmuetzalcoatl
11:14:54 AM+NoSetAlarmquetzalcoatl i mean
11:14:56 AM+RenjinTheism is a cognitive orientation in our species as a result of evolutionary pressures on agency detection and the role of socialization in behavior modification for community-driven actions v. self-driven actions.
11:14:57 AM+Dreamst39renjin... I was making a point.... I'm not a theist
11:15:16 AM+RenjinDreamst39: Never give any legitimacy to theism -- it's a failure of a person's mind to be a theist.
11:17:03 AM+RenjinEvangelicals are not our peers in modernity.
11:17:42 AM+RenjinEvangelicals are a cognitive sub-species that has been domesticated by oligarchs who use their flock to game our universality based political infrastructure.
11:18:11 AM+RenjinBecause there were many destructive ideologies in the past that leveraged human inequality for abuse, our current society has a taboo about labeling any group of humans as a sub-species/inferior/etc.
11:18:25 AM+RenjinThis has many advantages. However, there are disadvantages, too, which are rarely discussed.
11:18:57 AM+RenjinIt means it's off-limits to case our scientific and philosophical attention into that space of human dynamics, which means unsavory characters are given a free hand to 'do their magic' in that space.
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11:20:07 AM+RenjinIn a metaphorical sense, we have our small castle on our plot of land, but we have exiled former sorcerers for their ungodly work. Never seeing them we feel we have resolved the problem. But, they did not die. They are just beyond the mountains, In the Forbidden Bog, casting new spells and raising an undead army to overthrow their former oppressors.
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11:21:05 AM+RenjinWe will continue this until there is an unhideable crisis in our civilization at which point we'll be forced by the deviation from reality and our model of reality instantiated in our cultural values to course correct our axioms.
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11:23:00 AM+RenjinOf course, we are not guaranteed to free ourselves from this yoke of our ignorance, as there is also incredible seduction in society elders to label that crisis as stemming, not from a fundamental misperception of reality, but rather from our insufficiently following the Core Truths of our Metaphysics, i.e. a return to fundamentalism.
11:23:55 AM+RenjinYou can see Islam currently experiencing this debate quite strongly. They seem Crusader armies in their lands and they can't help but wonder if there system is flawed in some way. But, there is always the preacher to tell them their system is Perfect just as mom and dad said, but we failed to *truly* follow its wondrous insights!