From 7e2c6adee5e41b84dc186fd3b8ddc81e053d636c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 00:08:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] drafting "Peering Through Reverent Fingers" --- content/drafts/jesus-two.md | 13 ------------- .../peering-through-reverent-fingers.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 content/drafts/jesus-two.md create mode 100644 content/drafts/peering-through-reverent-fingers.md diff --git a/content/drafts/jesus-two.md b/content/drafts/jesus-two.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2bcb745..0000000 --- a/content/drafts/jesus-two.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -Title: Peering Through Reverent Fingers -Date: 2020-01-01 -Category: other -Tags: religion, sex differences -Status: draft - -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. - -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. [...] - -[reference class effect] - -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! diff --git a/content/drafts/peering-through-reverent-fingers.md b/content/drafts/peering-through-reverent-fingers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1a2e60 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/peering-through-reverent-fingers.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Title: Peering Through Reverent Fingers +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: other +Tags: categorization, ideology, sex differences +Status: draft + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[height base rates] + +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 + +[this breaks the mechanism for doublethinking around the first] + +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! -- 2.17.1