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RE: The Organic Mafioso EXPOSED: How What You Eat Makes You A Superior Enlightened Being (Or Maybe Just An Arrogant Asshole...)
Hahahaha great post! I was myself in all that new-agish, crystal healing, reiki, horoscope, woo energy, "look at me I am so enlightened and sooooo spiritual", mumbo jumbo, bullshit! :D
Then I have learnt how to apply scientific method to my own thought process and the bullshit just ceased to exist within months :-)
It is just impossible to reconcile with logical reasoning :-)
AwakenWithJP is a cool channel. I like many of his videos.
I would also recommend these videos:
And these:
I'm about to lead you down a rabbit hole. The scientific method isn't the end all be all. There are philosophical statistics arguments against GMOs, so the New Agers are right for the wrong reasons. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf
Many scientists are specialized in their own fields, but they have poor understandings of statistics and epistemiology, so they often reach the wrong conclusions. Take a look at this http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/prob.as.logic.pdf
and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
Also, read this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/who-will-debunk-the-debunkers/
Sometimes, there's a need for us ultra-skeptics to debunk the debunkers.
Unfortunately, there is still a lot of categorical thinking between many "scientists".
Many scientists are not true scientists, because they are not able to apply scientific method to their own thought process. I call them semi-scientists. An example would be a scientist who believes in god and follows religious traditions.
True scientists would also refrain thesmelves from categorical thinking by trying to, generally educate themselvesin many different branches of science (also statistics) , despite their specialization. This would give them more multidisciplinary system approach to the problem they try to solve.
Thank you for the links :-)
Agreed. Although there needs to be a distinction made between serious belief in a personified God and following traditions for perceived personal marginal benefits.
See this: https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10152548740888375
I think many people go to churches for the social connections. Also, think about it this way. Imagine that Star Wars fan clubs receive religious funding from the government and the meetings happen every Sunday morning. You have a pastor who analyzes virtues that you can learn from Yoda's words and the life lessons that you can learn from scenes from the movies. Then you meditate on how you can act more like Yoda to live a more fruitful life. To end the meeting, you sing the theme song from the movies. I think that could be a great time and adds marginal value to my life. I think both religious fundamentalists and gnostic atheists are foolish for taking things too seriously. Just chill and have a great time! :D
Bonus if you attend the meetings while on cannabis, MDMA, shrooms, or LSD. There is some evidence that this may in fact be the real origin of Christianity
lol. your content never fails to entertain, inform, inspire, and boggle my mind, @limitless :-)
Well that wouldn't be very sustainable socially, unless these Star Wars fans did not believe in these as factual :-)
Once you start believing in something like this, then it becomes a problem :-)
LOL of course. (replying here to comment below because we have too many nested replies)
I see a problem that I would describe as "daddy issues" among the extreme atheists that the same problem with extreme evangelical vegans. For well adjusted people, we know that God isn't literally real and there exists problems with eating meat, but the people who have been brainwashed one way will overcalibrate their rebelliousness and swing way too far the other way to a different type of crazy.
Also, I think myths are extremely powerful regardless of if people literally believe them to be real. Stories that invoke deep emotional responses are far more memorable than simply memorizing a bland list of facts and virtues.
Yes, you are right. People tend to drift from one bullshit to another. From one extreme to another. From frying pan into the fire. In desperate attempt to cling to some sort of identity to give them the illusion of psychological consolation. Particularly, when their previous experiences (usually from childhood) conditioned them to be unable for their ego to survive without such identification.
Atheists, vegans, Christians, Fascists, "Anarchists", and so on. It is all attachment to an illusion of identity. Believing that identity is something real, which they cannot live without.
We can have any identity we like. We define it oursleves. No one can impose it on us, so why desperately get attached to it and look for it, and when they really need some identiy why identifying to identity which is realy dumb, like religious or political.
Self integrity and character does no require self generated belief of who we think we should be and defined by (identity). There is only one true identity, which all humans share. The one defined by nature.
It's called humanity. This is our only true nationality, and our planet is our only true nation.
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100% agreed, awesome conclusions.
It already takes a shit load of study just to be specialized...I'm not saying multidisciplinary systems don't work... it just takes a literal ton of homework to be proficient in more than one subject! I am supposedly trained in broadcast telecommunications with a BA & computer technology with an AAB...but believe me, I am NO expert because progress moves faster than one can keep up with!