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@matiu_bidule #graeber is so duly missed 😭 much like #hitchens
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@matiu_bidule #graeber is so duly missed 😭 much like #hitchens
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just how true is that 👀 :blobcatgoogly:
"We have to find sources of #entropy
How many older people you know tell the same stories and jokes over and over? Watch the same shows. Listen to the same five bands, and then eventually two. Our aperture slowly shrinks until we die."
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just how true is that 👀 :blobcatgoogly:
"We have to find sources of #entropy
How many older people you know tell the same stories and jokes over and over? Watch the same shows. Listen to the same five bands, and then eventually two. Our aperture slowly shrinks until we die."
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just how true is that 👀 :blobcatgoogly:
"We have to find sources of #entropy
How many older people you know tell the same stories and jokes over and over? Watch the same shows. Listen to the same five bands, and then eventually two. Our aperture slowly shrinks until we die."
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just how true is that 👀 :blobcatgoogly:
"We have to find sources of #entropy
How many older people you know tell the same stories and jokes over and over? Watch the same shows. Listen to the same five bands, and then eventually two. Our aperture slowly shrinks until we die."
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just how true is that 👀 :blobcatgoogly:
"We have to find sources of #entropy
How many older people you know tell the same stories and jokes over and over? Watch the same shows. Listen to the same five bands, and then eventually two. Our aperture slowly shrinks until we die."
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Quem é tolo o suficiente para acreditar em Deus, ou em vida após a morte?: https://amorscan.blogspot.com/2025/03/quem-e-tolo-o-suficiente-para-acreditar.html?spref=tw #ateísmo #ateismo #ceticismo #ateus #vidaapósamorte #eqm #deus #filosofia #nietzsche #dawkins #hitchens #bigbang #sopaprimordial #choquederealidade #existealma #salto #reflexao
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“It now doesn’t seem ridiculous to have ‘approval ratings’ that fluctuate week by week, because these are based upon the all-important ‘perception’ factor, which has in turn quite lost its own relationship to the word ‘perceptive.’”
― Christopher #Hitchens
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https://youtu.be/RpGtwHzxnrM This is what this whole mess boils down to. How sad. How better, as a species, we would be without religion! #hitchens #christopherhitchens
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#lispyGopherClimate https://archives.anonradio.net/202407240000_screwtape.mp3 #archived
#climate #haiku by @kentpitman https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/112834854410048957
#Hitchens ~2011 on how the climate climate was bad and things were going to get worse
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/01/hitchens-201101
Kmp's Kamala note http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/07/kamala-candidacy.html#lisp #emacs #clim
Working on a minor mode for accepting-values and presentations git soon#ITS high trust historical computing, also by kmp^
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/07/social-computing-before-internet.html#music @datakrash https://revenge.day/discography
#unix_surrealism @prahou -
@kentpitman
A good article. Do you mind if I mention it together with
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/01/hitchens-201101
today? In which #Hitchens points out the mainstream conservative embrace of tea party rallies in the 2008 election ("Obama can't hear you! Global warming is? BULLSHIT") and personalities to excite their voters, and how consequences would get even worse in the future, which is now. -
A #review of the (posthumously published) #book “A Hitch In Time” by #ChristopherHitchens:
“Why Hitch Still Matters: On Christopher Hitchens’s ‘A Hitch In Time’”, Los Angeles Review Of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-hitch-still-matters-on-christopher-hitchenss-a-hitch-in-time).
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So I am a week into my #Zizek #Lacan #Hegel studies, through Zizek's lens. All good. I think Zizek's #philosophy of looking at Hegel through the Lacanian lens is seductive. That said, where I find the lens of Zizek lacking, and I now wish he'd not talk about these 2(3) things any more are:
1. #Buddhism (https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-lacan-is-not-a-buddhist-a-belated-reply-to-my-critics/)
-the boy criticizes Buddhism like people criticize #Freud. All or nothing, for the most part.
2. #Christianity and #God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABnznhzdIY
- I was a serious #catholic half my life, seminarian for minute, and an ordained deacon, still, even after I confessed my #atheism. So I get what he is saying. My atheism has never felt the same as #Dawkins or #Hitchens, whom we adore, and Zizek sneers. Slipping through the profound safety net religion and a transcendent, all powerful, personal god into the #existentialism of nothing was terrifying, it was my first experience of the "#real." This is it. This is all there is. The problem is it appears Zizek commits the #fallacy of #reification (if we understand it correctly). Clearly he knows it is #fiction, even if profound from a #psychoanalytic Hegelian #CriticalAnalysis, we get it we really do, but it is not real. The #event is real, and the fiction caused the event, but the fiction is still fiction. There is no God, IOP, that became an atheist. The #story Zizek emphasizes is powerful, the changing of the cosmos when #Jesus on the cross questions Gods love. Good story and that is all. Some RCC positions from recent popes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBZy_iu0m8 and https://www.romereports.com/en/2021/09/14/full-homily-of-pope-francis-at/
So please, Zizek, can I say stay in your lane where you are brilliant, please. -
The question of "god-belief" is already inherently biased toward religion. When someone asks you, "Do you believe in God," from an intellectual standpoint, it's like asking "When did you stop beating your significant other?"
There's no good response to the question. If you say you "don't believe," people get bent out of shape and start pestering you with nonsense like "how can you not believe--who made the universe, then?" or "no one knows what happens after you die" and "you can't prove that." Well, duh, the question was about *belief,* not proof. On the other hand if you say you *do* believe, most people take your belief at face value as your right under freedom of religion, and leave you alone.
So what's really being asked? Do you conform? Are you willing to submit to social proof? What group identity are you willing to embrace? It's a no-win situation. You either self-identify as a social pariah, you lie, or you face-plant intellectually.
Because the question assumes its own premise, that there's a God that can be "believed in" or "not believed in." Stripped down to its essentials the question is asking you to accept that this all-important thing, hinges on the opinions of human beings.
As George Carlin pointed out, no one has to ask if you believe in the Sun.
The better question about God is, "does it exist?" Well, what is "it?" Most people refuse to define their terms. Let's take a commonly accepted definition:
"God is a supreme being, a creator and ruler of the universe, who is believed to be transcendent, omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent."
This definition is absurd. Logically inconsistent and nonsensical for all the familiar reasons.
-Any creator of the universe must also have a creator, so "god" solves nothing.
-A "ruler" of the universe would mean that it's an undemocratic place. Hitchens' "celestial dictatorship" is the model for all Earthly dictatorships. Which are a horror show.
-Despite all the efforts dedicated to theodicy over the centuries, there's no way to reconcile the problem of evil with a benevolent God.
-Epicurus famous Trilemma: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
So, to sum up:
1) The question of god-belief is a nasty bit of social engineering to force you into a positive answer, with the implication that a negative response will be punished with exclusion.
2) The question of "god's" existence is logically absurd and meaningless, in addition to being unfalsifiable. Dismissed without regard or hesitation.
So "atheism" (as declared non-belief in god) only makes sense as a political reaction to the cultural hegemony of god-belief. Forget Dawkins' 7-point scale and all that jazz. Without "God" as the default position, atheism has no meaning. Nor does agnosticism.
This is why I self-identify as an *anti-theist.* Anti-theocracy. Because what's worth opposing with every gram of passion you can muster, are all the despicable things being done in "God's" name.
#atheism #antitheism #carlin #dawkins #epicurus #hitchens #theodicy #god #theocracy #agnosticism
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An oldie but goodie:
"Like many #fanatical preachers, #Falwell was especially disgusting in exuding an almost sexless personality while railing from dawn to dusk about the #sex lives of others. ...From his wobbly base of opportunist fund raising and degree-mill money-spinning in Lynchburg, Va., he set out to puddle his sausage-sized fingers into the intimate arrangements of people who had done no harm." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/05/jerry-falwell-faith-based-fraud.html #hitchens #taxthechurches
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An oldie but goodie:
"Like many #fanatical preachers, #Falwell was especially disgusting in exuding an almost sexless personality while railing from dawn to dusk about the #sex lives of others. ...From his wobbly base of opportunist fund raising and degree-mill money-spinning in Lynchburg, Va., he set out to puddle his sausage-sized fingers into the intimate arrangements of people who had done no harm." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/05/jerry-falwell-faith-based-fraud.html #hitchens #taxthechurches
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An oldie but goodie:
"Like many #fanatical preachers, #Falwell was especially disgusting in exuding an almost sexless personality while railing from dawn to dusk about the #sex lives of others. ...From his wobbly base of opportunist fund raising and degree-mill money-spinning in Lynchburg, Va., he set out to puddle his sausage-sized fingers into the intimate arrangements of people who had done no harm." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/05/jerry-falwell-faith-based-fraud.html #hitchens #taxthechurches
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An oldie but goodie:
"Like many #fanatical preachers, #Falwell was especially disgusting in exuding an almost sexless personality while railing from dawn to dusk about the #sex lives of others. ...From his wobbly base of opportunist fund raising and degree-mill money-spinning in Lynchburg, Va., he set out to puddle his sausage-sized fingers into the intimate arrangements of people who had done no harm." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/05/jerry-falwell-faith-based-fraud.html #hitchens #taxthechurches
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An oldie but goodie:
"Like many #fanatical preachers, #Falwell was especially disgusting in exuding an almost sexless personality while railing from dawn to dusk about the #sex lives of others. ...From his wobbly base of opportunist fund raising and degree-mill money-spinning in Lynchburg, Va., he set out to puddle his sausage-sized fingers into the intimate arrangements of people who had done no harm." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/05/jerry-falwell-faith-based-fraud.html #hitchens #taxthechurches
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Stunning talk by Christopher Hitchens on the Catholic Church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRsaxXrjk3w
#youtube #justice #children #Inquisition #Apology #church #doctrine #Catholic #Hitchens #moral #ethical #Fascism #Holocaust
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RIP #ChristopherHitchens who died 11 years ago tomorrow.
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Just finished a re-read of Christopher Hitchens' Letters to a Young Contrarian. Recommended, even if you don't support all his viewpoints, and Hitchens does often leave me feeling slightly inadequate at times.
He sums up towards the end:
"That one should strive to combine the maximum of impatience with the maximum of skepticism, the maximum of hatred of injustice and irrationality with the maximum of ironic self-criticism."
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Thinking on the ways in which I try to redress the fallibility of my mind, and incorrigibly lazy spirit, brought me to reason more systematically about a process that now feels innate, but has taken a lifetime to develop and hone. I hope this provides a little context to the art of reading more efficiently and effectively.
#ReadingWell #UmbertoEco #Wittgenstein #Hitchens
https://robert.winter.ink/reading-more-efficiently-and-effectively/
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Autism in the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
https://embrace-autism.com/autism-in-the-psychodynamic-diagnostic-manual/
#DiagnosticandStatisticalManualofMentalDisorders(DSM) #BehaviorRatingInventoryofExecutiveFunction(BRIEF) #InternationalClassificationofDiseases(ICD) #Super-ego(psychoanalytictheory) #Hitchens’srazor(epistemology) #Structuralmodelofthepsyche #Ego(psychoanalytictheory) #Id(psychoanalytictheory) #High-functioningautism #Executivedysfunction #Psychoanalytictheory #Cognition
