RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
October 17, 2023 at 1:16 pm
(October 17, 2023 at 1:08 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There's the dilemma. We propose that people are indoctrinated through education. By people telling them stuff. We also, apparently, think that -other- people telling them -other- stuff is different, and the solution to the problem that people telling people stuff creates. We can and do think for ourselves -even in ignorance. In that case, we just think for ourselves over a more limited field. We think about the shit we know, and not the shit we don't.
Religious ideation isn't wrong. The current crop of religions are really bad representatives of the set, is all. Credit where credit is due. They put in the work to be horrible, because they think that the world really should be horrible.
Of course. I should have said something like that before, especially on religious ideation being wrong, and that the current crop of religions are bad representatives as you said. Also, yes, I rather meant that people think for themselves in a more limited field as you also said. Quite a shame people think that way, as said people may assume things they don't know, or just listen to someone who also has a more limited field of things, and is also not qualified to tell others things because they don't know themselves. Yet, people will believe it anyway.
