Rottcodd
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- Comment on Does one's autism affect their religious beliefs? Why or why not? 1 year ago:
The way it made me really think about how truly expansive space and time are really made me think that “that’s not impossible to think that there is a 11th dimension being that has some agenda that we cannot understand.”
Absolutely.
But that’s not what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about making the leap from recognizing that such a being could exist to believing that such a being does exist. That, to me, is so bizarrely irrational that I can’t even work out how it is that people apparently actually do it.
- Comment on Does one's autism affect their religious beliefs? Why or why not? 1 year ago:
Yeah - I don’t even really understand how all of that works. I see that people apparently sincerely believe, but I have no idea how - what it is that goes on inside their brains that allows them to make that leap to actually believing.
- Comment on Does one's autism affect their religious beliefs? Why or why not? 1 year ago:
I don’t know that it does, but I can see how it could.
One way that neurodivergence can manifest is as a relative inability to simply assume things - a relatively outsized need for clear evidence on which to base a conclusion. And religion is notably devoid of actual evidence.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I don’t spend any time on Mastodon.
Why? Are there anarchists on Mastodon? Or is this some kind of sarcasm I’m not getting?
I do have a Mastodon account, but I never use it. I much prefer forums over microblogs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The implication here is that anarchists are relatively common on the fediverse, and if so, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen this idea expressed.
But the thing is that I am an anarchist, and I’ve been keeping my eyes open, and I haven’t seen any other anarchists here. LOTS of authoritarian leftists, ranging from naive social democrats to full-blown “submit or die” tankies, but not one single other anarchist.
So are you actually trying to say that anarchists are common here? And if so, where are they?
- Comment on We could not stop Gary Thuerk and subsequent followers, so why do we think we can contain AI? 1 year ago:
As is generally the case, only a relative few have enough power to actually do something meaningful, and as the winners of the countless battles that had to be fought as they crawled their way up whichever hierarchy to the top of which they now cling, they tend to be ruthless, self-serving, dishonest, amoral and entirely heartless, hiding behind a convincing-enough veneer of principles and integrity.
So as is generally the case, the world can be roughly divided into those who could do something but won’t. those who would do something but can’t, and those who aren’t paying attention, for whatever reason.
- Comment on Older games with female protagonists? 1 year ago:
Eien no Filena on the SNES/SFC (it was Japan-only but it’s been fan-translated).
Not only is the protagonist a woman - that fact is repeatedly plot-relevant.
- Comment on Consideration to Defederate Hexbear 1 year ago:
Yeah.
You know - I’ve been thinking the same thing about water. There must be a team of people all working together to push the idea that it’s wet. Why else would so many different people all say the same thing?
- Comment on Ska is the "pineapple on pizza" of music genres 1 year ago:
Sounds like adolescent edginess to me.
- Comment on Ska is the "pineapple on pizza" of music genres 1 year ago:
Wait… there are people who hate ska?
Why? For that matter, how? What’s to hate?
Granted, I’m GenX, so my concept of ska is rooted in the 80s, but I can’t imagine that it’s changed much since then.
Wait a minute… is this one of those deals where it’s trendy in some peer group to broadcast a hatred for something? Like anyone who wants to hang with the cool kids has to verify that they too hate ska?
Which would be sort of like pineapple on pizza now that I think about it, so might well be the whole point here…