• RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      :lady-doge: I don't know shit about any of those words

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Essentially that you really don't have to care whether or not there is a god because based on everything, if there is one we understand it about as well as a fish understands quantum computers.

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Ah, nice. I like that tale about some "demiurg" or whatever that goes like "something started all this shit but it never really ran the place nor cared for it" or something like that

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, but indifference instead of uncertainty. It's a hair split. Also it has the near certainty that all existing religions are definitely wrong.

            • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              If you're thinking about it this much, I don't think you are indifferent.

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                You can have well justified indifference. I cared until I figured out I shouldn't and that's how I got there.

                  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                    3 years ago

                    My grandfather was a Reddit atheist despite being born in 1939. When he was dying he complained and got a nurse change because the one he had insisted on praying for him and talking about it. Dude just didn't suffer bullshit. So that was my baseline from birth. My Reddit atheist phase was learning to respect religion to a degree