Recently I find myself consuming atheism-focused content which, I’m afraid I can only describe as, masturbatory. I know I can get on with living without much need for support, knowledge, community or ideological validation for my atheism. But the excitement at finding ‘new’ others in various stages of the ‘old’ debate is in some strangeContinue reading “Coffee with a Presuppositionalist”
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Dissonance-led Deconversion
Some beliefs hold on to us, even after we have dropped them, simply because we grew up with them. Also because the people closest to us hold on to them. These are organised in cohorts of functional heuristics that are deeply entrenched into our psyches. Fear-based admonishment is one such embedded belief- retention premise. DeliberatelyContinue reading “Dissonance-led Deconversion”
The Bleerbet…
Science, pseudoscience and irrationality compete for a chunk of our worldview at a memetic level. There is a sociological Darwinian utility for irrationality because its inherent quirkiness allows for profligate variations of genetic options. If behavior was binary, based on true logic, then there is a limited outcome of inter- and intraspecies dynamics. The downer,Continue reading “The Bleerbet…”
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