However, regarding your hesitance to examine some beliefs, the obvious thing to do (since your hesitance does not tell you whether or not the beliefs are correct, only examining them does) is to make the consequences of your discovery feel less severe.
Agreed. And this is very good advice. My map has beliefs about my map and I figured those are very high priority. Any ooga-booga’s about touching an area is probably in the meta-map. As of right now, most of those are open for analysis. The big, annoying is a self-referential lockout that is likely to get tricky. Of all the discussions that would thoroughly surprise the community here, this one takes the cake. My younger self was pretty clever and saw the future too clearly for my own good.
The ulterior motive of this post is to give me a way to discuss these things without people going, “Wait, backup. You believe in God?”
The ulterior motive of this post is to give me a way to discuss these things without people going, “Wait, backup. You believe in God?”
Bear in mind that not everyone reads every post—assuming you continue to discuss matters related to theism without a major reversal of opinion (either on your part or ours—I, naturally, expect the latter to be unlikely), this will still happen occasionally, with increasing frequency as time progresses.
Agreed. And this is very good advice. My map has beliefs about my map and I figured those are very high priority. Any ooga-booga’s about touching an area is probably in the meta-map. As of right now, most of those are open for analysis. The big, annoying is a self-referential lockout that is likely to get tricky. Of all the discussions that would thoroughly surprise the community here, this one takes the cake. My younger self was pretty clever and saw the future too clearly for my own good.
The ulterior motive of this post is to give me a way to discuss these things without people going, “Wait, backup. You believe in God?”
Bear in mind that not everyone reads every post—assuming you continue to discuss matters related to theism without a major reversal of opinion (either on your part or ours—I, naturally, expect the latter to be unlikely), this will still happen occasionally, with increasing frequency as time progresses.
Agreed. Having this post in the archives is useful for my far-future self. I expect it to save me a lot of time.