RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 25, 2022 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2022 at 4:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Some of them appear to greatly precede formal math. What’s funny is that you can imagine them on a nature documentary made by a species that thinks we’re not sentient. “Nature has found an ingenious way to help the lowly man tell time, even though he has no specific sentient capacity to do simple math, himself”
Here we are very accurately calling them tricks, as people commonly refer to hypothetical machine sentience. -and yet….they work. Ultimately, we reach a point where all we’re wondering…all we can wonder, is whether a mimic could be so competent as to be indistinguishable from the genuine article, without accurately being the genuine article. A non diamond with the exact same properties as a diamond.
We’ve gone on a little digression. It was originally about the possibility that mainstream Christianity would become an ideology of allegory, rather than belief in a particular version of a particular god. I think the secularization of the west (including western Christian’s) shows that it can and at least in that area, the work is well underweigh. Evangelical preachers will tell you it’s already done- and they’re not entirely wrong, even if they tend to lump their personal boogeymen in there as a rule.
Here we are very accurately calling them tricks, as people commonly refer to hypothetical machine sentience. -and yet….they work. Ultimately, we reach a point where all we’re wondering…all we can wonder, is whether a mimic could be so competent as to be indistinguishable from the genuine article, without accurately being the genuine article. A non diamond with the exact same properties as a diamond.
We’ve gone on a little digression. It was originally about the possibility that mainstream Christianity would become an ideology of allegory, rather than belief in a particular version of a particular god. I think the secularization of the west (including western Christian’s) shows that it can and at least in that area, the work is well underweigh. Evangelical preachers will tell you it’s already done- and they’re not entirely wrong, even if they tend to lump their personal boogeymen in there as a rule.
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