If loving things feels good then I don't care if it's chemicals it feels good so I like it

  • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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    3 years ago

    I’ve said it a few times but mostly to fuck with a few friends of mine who are kinda hippies and love prattling on about “love” and “spirituality” and that kind of crap. I get it’s a dumb argument but it’s good to get a rise out of people who believe in woo woo shit.

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      • effervescent [they/them]
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        Fwiw I call myself a cultural christian because it feels dishonest to say I have no affiliation with a religion. The primary religion I’ve rejected is christianity and yet my morality is still fundamentally christian because that’s how I was raised. That’s a real different relationship from my relationship with Buddhism, for example.

        There’s no woo involved

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          • effervescent [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Ah I wasn’t familiar with Dawkins’ claim to the term, but I’m not surprised there’s bioessentialism at the end of that path

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              • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                yeah but Dawkins is one of those people that is actually just a petty mean spirited person that talks a lot of shit to justify themselves. Like Peterson

                Everything he says he thinks can basically be ignored as he's making it up as he goes to justify being so unpleasant

    • hahafuck [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I mostly don't say things if their only point is to upset my friends

      • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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        3 years ago

        Well you don’t know me or these people or anything about the rapport I have with them so perhaps don’t make judgements.

        If they were seriously bothered by my mild ribbing I assume they would stop being friends with me.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I only really use the it's just chemicals argument against the annoying "these drugs are showing me the universe man" hippies. But I mainly find them annoying as they are really boring to talk to as they regularly chemically remove their ability to tell when what they are saying is boring