drafting "Peering Through Reverent Fingers"

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-Title: Peering Through Reverent Fingers
-Date: 2020-01-01
-Category: other
-Tags: religion, sex differences
-Status: draft
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-As an atheist, I'm not really a fan of religions, but I'll give them one thing: at least their packages of delusions are _stable_. The process of losing your religion is a painful one, but once you've overcome the trauma of finding out that everything you believed was a lie, the process of figuring out how to live among the still-faithful now that you are no longer one of them, is something you only have to do _once_; it's not like everyone will have adopted a new Jesus Two while you were off having your crisis of faith. And the first Jesus was invisible anyway; you won't be able to pray sincerely, and that does set you apart from the community, but your day-to-day life will be mostly unaffected.
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-The progressive _Zeitgeist_ does not even offer this respite. Getting over psychological-sex-differences denialism was painful, and while I still don't think I understand the details, I've read a lot of books these last fifteen years, and I think I've faced and finally come to accept the horrible truth: women and men really are psychologically different, and for biologically- and not merely culturally-mediated reasons. [...]
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-[reference class effect]
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-You really are expected to believe in Jesus Two! And it's even _more_ ridiculous than the first one! I'm never going to get over this!

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+Title: Peering Through Reverent Fingers
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: other
+Tags: categorization, ideology, sex differences
+Status: draft
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+As an atheist, I'm not really a fan of religions, but I'll give them one thing: at least their packages of delusions are _stable_. The experience of losing your religion is a painful one, but once you've overcome the trauma of finding out that everything you believed was a lie, the process of figuring out how to live among the still-faithful now that you are no longer one of them, is something you only have to do _once_; it's not like everyone will have adopted a new Jesus Two while you were off having your crisis of faith. And the first Jesus was invisible anyway; you won't be able to pray sincerely, and that does set you apart from your—the—community, but your day-to-day life will be mostly unaffected.
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+The progressive _Zeitgeist_ does not even offer this respite. Getting over psychological-sex-differences denialism was painful, but after many years of study and meditation, I think I've finally come to accept the horrible truth: women and men really are psychologically different, and for biologically- and not merely culturally-mediated reasons. This sets me apart from the community, but not very much.
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+The original lie wasn't _invisible_ exactly, but it never caused too many problems, because it's easy to doublethink around: most of the functional use of sex categories in Society is handled by seamless subconscious reference-classing, without anyone needing to consciously, verbally reason about sex differences.
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+[height base rates]
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+But in the ten years I had my back turned reading science books, my former quasi-religion somehow came up with _new_ lies: now, it's not enough to believe that women and men are mentally the same, you're also supposed to accept that those words refer to 
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+[this breaks the mechanism for doublethinking around the first]
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+You really are expected to believe in Jesus Two! And it's _far more_ ridiculous than the first one! I'm never going to get over this!