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0 pointsaj_hackman5mo ago0 comments

> All major religions are essentially meme-conglomerates.

This is quite the reduction, akin to claiming that my wife and I got married because human beings are a pair-bonding species - it checks out on the surface, but discards an incredible breadth and depth of human experience. I do not close my eyes at night and talk to a loose collection of ideas cobbled together by a bunch of random people attempting to outline a system of objective morality in the pursuit of societal control. I am participating in an eternal relationship with the author of truth and love.

> There's no payload, just absurd emptiness.

It's developed a commentary on internet culture vs. legacy media.

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dusted5mo ago

> This is quite the reduction, ...

Thank you, that spawned this notion in my head, I wonder why. It’s funny, I think, how quickly people dismiss the subjective experience of a crackhead having an ecstatic conversation with God or the universe — yet insist that the depth of their own experience of love, religion, or meditation can’t possibly be reduced to neurotransmitters.

lioeters5mo ago

> love, religion, or meditation can’t possibly be reduced to neurotransmitters

You can reduce all of human experience to chemistry, but you'd be missing most of the meaning, understanding, and wisdom of it. (If there is any, in the case of the cracked visionary.)

aj_hackmanOP5mo ago

> insist that the depth of their own experience of love, religion, or meditation can’t possibly be reduced to neurotransmitters

To bring things full circle and quote a dead meme, why not get you a girl who can do both?

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