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The lack of theism, and/or lacking belief in a god or gods.

What’s absolutely hilarious is watching these same people dive straight off a cliff into cultist insanity.

See also:

  • Deism – Belief that there was a creator who is currently not participating.




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Some old thoughts on reinforcement

2012-07-11 or earlier

  • Religious people end up being blackmailed into reinforcing their bullshit.
  • Reinforcement via church, singing, praying, “reading”, etc.
  • Reinforcement helps diminish the effects of cognitive dissonance.

Comedy

  • Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence
  • In April, Judge Eduardo Rodriguez ruled, in Granada, Spain, that Jesus Christ was innocent of the charges that sent him to death in Galilee, finding that Jesus suffered “significant” violations of due process of law, including the absence of a defender.

    • News of the Weird 4:41 PM 3/14/91 — At least as old as 04-Jun-1992 21:45

Historical

  • Peter Abelard wrote a book of 168 quotes from church fathers showing that they all contradicted eachother.

    • A quote from him: Don’t just accept anything you’re told. If you don’t understand it, don’t believe it.
  • William and Teary – 12th century, took the bible apart

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Coming out as an Atheist, the costs of atheism

See Getting the hell out of Dodge

Notes

Serpentine twenty-sided die from the Ptolemaic Period, Egypt

Writing > Dungeons & Dragons >
Roleplaying terminology >

The lawful evil perspective is generally thought to be the most long-term playable within a group of similarly aligned characters. Such a group will generally recognize that the attainment of power is of paramount importance, and will work together, if not as a team, to gain power.

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Dead Poets Society - (1989 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/

A coming of age story of a class of students learning poetry in an unorthodox way.

While I recommend and like this, it not great.

Something about it makes it feel somehow inelegant or simple, perhaps even predictable. Perhaps it stood out in its era, and it caught me at an impressionable moment for my first viewing, but as I watch it again it doesn’t grab me much at all. I think this would be weakly-mandatory for creating a well-rounded movie-learning experience in someone young.

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