More or less. Here are some related pieces of content:
There’s a twitter thread by Qiaochu that ostensibly is about addiction, but has the idea “It’s more useful to examine what you’re running from, than what you’re running to.” In the context of our conversation, the Christianity and Rationalism would be “what you’ve been running to” and “what you’re running from” (for me) has been social needs not being met, not having a lot of personal agency, etc.
Meaningness is an epic tome by David Chapman on different attitudes towards meaning that one can take and their repercussions.
Regarding regarding examples and generalizing, I’ve been finding it that it’s really hard to feel like I’ve changed my mind in any substantive way, unless I can find the examples and memories of events that lead me to believe a general claim in the first place, and address those examples. Matt Goldenberg has a sequence on a specific version of this idea.
More or less. Here are some related pieces of content:
There’s a twitter thread by Qiaochu that ostensibly is about addiction, but has the idea “It’s more useful to examine what you’re running from, than what you’re running to.” In the context of our conversation, the Christianity and Rationalism would be “what you’ve been running to” and “what you’re running from” (for me) has been social needs not being met, not having a lot of personal agency, etc.
Meaningness is an epic tome by David Chapman on different attitudes towards meaning that one can take and their repercussions.
Regarding regarding examples and generalizing, I’ve been finding it that it’s really hard to feel like I’ve changed my mind in any substantive way, unless I can find the examples and memories of events that lead me to believe a general claim in the first place, and address those examples. Matt Goldenberg has a sequence on a specific version of this idea.