Ah, I’m not a Christian, and it’s not non-Christians that bother me so much as people who think they know something about how the world works despite, um, not actually knowing much of anything. Inadvertent trolls. My hometown friends are agnostic with one or two exceptions (a close friend of mine is a Catholic, she makes me so proud), my SingInst-related friends are mostly monotheists these days whether they’d admit to it or not I guess but definitely not Christians. I don’t think of for example you as a heathen; there are a lot of intelligent and thoughtful people on this site. I vaguely suspect that they’d fit in better in an intellectual Catholic monastic order, e.g. the Dominicans, but alas it’s hard to say. I’m really lucky to know a handful of thoughtful SingInst-related folk, otherwise I’d probably actually join the Dominicans just to have a somewhat sane peer group. Maybe. My expectations are probably way too high. I might try to convince the Roman Catholic Church to take FAI seriously soon; I actually expect that this will work. They’re so freakin’ reasonable, it’s amazing. Anyway I’m not sure but my point might be that I’m just trying to stay away from people with bad epistemic habits for fear of them contaminating me, like a fundamentalist Christian trying to keep his high epistemic standards amidst a bunch of lions and/or atheists. Better to just stay away from them for the most part. Except hanging out with lions is pretty awesome and saint-worthy whereas hanging out with atheists is just kinda annoying.
Ah, I’m not a Christian, and it’s not non-Christians that bother me so much as people who think they know something about how the world works despite, um, not actually knowing much of anything. Inadvertent trolls. My hometown friends are agnostic with one or two exceptions (a close friend of mine is a Catholic, she makes me so proud), my SingInst-related friends are mostly monotheists these days whether they’d admit to it or not I guess but definitely not Christians. I don’t think of for example you as a heathen; there are a lot of intelligent and thoughtful people on this site. I vaguely suspect that they’d fit in better in an intellectual Catholic monastic order, e.g. the Dominicans, but alas it’s hard to say. I’m really lucky to know a handful of thoughtful SingInst-related folk, otherwise I’d probably actually join the Dominicans just to have a somewhat sane peer group. Maybe. My expectations are probably way too high. I might try to convince the Roman Catholic Church to take FAI seriously soon; I actually expect that this will work. They’re so freakin’ reasonable, it’s amazing. Anyway I’m not sure but my point might be that I’m just trying to stay away from people with bad epistemic habits for fear of them contaminating me, like a fundamentalist Christian trying to keep his high epistemic standards amidst a bunch of lions and/or atheists. Better to just stay away from them for the most part. Except hanging out with lions is pretty awesome and saint-worthy whereas hanging out with atheists is just kinda annoying.
Is this meant to be ironic?
Half-ironic, yeah.
Then upvoted.