Comment on #EverythingHappensForAReason

• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Go ahead, now I have to know

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  • Lemmist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh well.

    Gods, dragons and democracy are real in context of their appropriate fairy tales. So gods are real in context of the story from Bible.

    You were so serious, that I jokingly assumed that you never read a fairy tale in the childhood and don’t understand how fairy tale worlds are working. And where is the place where is no fairy tale books? History/documentalistic department of the library.

    That was awkward :)

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    • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This must be some cultural/language disconnect.

      My original comment is not really serious and straight forward. I am abstracting and rephrasing the story of Abraham in a more scientific and dark satirical humor. I’m pointing out the contradiction of holding up Abraham as some kind of faithful and loyal figure against his documented behavior. In essence, I am showing that he was a deeply flawed person that most people would condemn in the present world of cultural norms. I’m also specifically obliterating the junction point of all Abrahamic faiths to invalidate all of them equally. Such a statement will be dismissed for various reasons by anyone that is dogmatic, but this information places a seed of doubt in some that might help them navigate away from the blindness of dogma.

      In a way, I am doing this out of kindness. I am attacking the narrative at the most neutral point possible and I am humanizing the individual that is at the foundation of the mythos. If this point in the chain of religious teaching is so deeply flawed, everything else in that chain lacks a grounding in truth.

      I exist in this kind of abstracted functional thought space. This type of functional thought is one of the more rare outliers, but is still neurotypical. I encourage you to look into the spectrum of functional thought and learn to appreciate the variety of people, what motivates them, and how it is difficult for everyone to relate to some of the different forms of functional thought. You likely care far more about inner personal interactions, relationships, your sense of judgment of others as entities, and think in more polarized absolutes. I am abstract in everything. I see you as a collection of changing actions and statistics. I am good at big picture connections across many contexts and spaces and am driven only by my many curiosities. You and I are likely opposites that struggle to relate to each other. You will likely struggle to understand my abstractions as much as I lack the emotional depth and development to understand what you see and experience with others. We can still learn from and appreciate the diversity of thought and ideas and try to understand how others view the world.

      Don’t feel awkward. I appreciate you for who you are.

      Yes, I am the librarian… and I like it! :)

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