It even has drug induced brainwashing and coercive sex slavery, and it sees its inner circles (and the sufficiently devout) as gods in the making. This is full Thetan tear lunacy, but because totemic magic words like "SCIENCE" and "LOGIC" are slapped all over the outer walls, it hasn't gotten the same scrutiny.
This is all so online. I refuse to read the links.
Based on comments in this thread, this looks like people taking the most circuitous route through symbols and recursive self-annihilating 'logic' brain games just to avoid ever having to feel a genuine emotion.
All of their real problems are probably social/emotional/physiological, but it's too painful to parse any of that, so they crawl up their own arses to reinvent absurd first-year philosophy shit-talk forever.
I've never felt better about going on a walk :cat-vibing:
Kurzweil never managed to grieve the death of his father in a healthy way, so he created decades of magical thinking and tech occultism instead.
Yes, touch grass for us all. :rat-salute:
So much of our culture is re-inventing shit that my classmates and I discussed half-seriously while stoned out of our minds at 3am in a Denny's in Scranton.
They feel genuine emotions, like smugness and loneliness.