From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 07:27:17 +0000 (-0700) Subject: begin "Jesus Two" X-Git-Url: http://232903.hjopswx29.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6c96ccdae2e734647e1656951e7f1d033d0bf75;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git begin "Jesus Two" --- diff --git a/content/drafts/jesus-two.md b/content/drafts/jesus-two.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20dd77f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/jesus-two.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Title: Jesus Two (working title) +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: other +Tags: religion, sex differences +Status: draft + +As an atheist, I'm not really a fan of religions, but I'll give them one thing: at least their packages of delusions are _stable_. The process of losing your religion is a painful one, but once you've overcome the trauma of finding out that everything you believed was a lie, the process of figuring out how to live among the still-faithful now that you are no longer one of them, is something you only have to do _once_; it's not like everyone will have adopted a new Jesus Two while you were off having your crisis of faith. And the first Jesus was invisible anyway; you won't be able to pray sincerely, and that does set you apart from the community, but your day-to-day life will be mostly unaffected. + +The progressive _Zeitgeist_ does not even offer this respite. Getting over psychological-sex-differences denialism was painful, and while I still don't think I understand the details, I've read a lot of books these last fifteen years, and I think I've faced and finally come to accept the horrible truth: women and men really are psychologically different, and for biologically- and not merely culturally-mediated reasons. [...] + +[reference class effect] + +You really are expected to believe in Jesus Two! And it's even _more_ ridiculous than the first one! I'm never going to get over this!