Religion

God, prayer, scripture, theology, myth and religious traditions outside the Buddhist frame

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Trusted voices in Religion

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  1. the_wilderless — trusted by 133 posters here
  2. vividvoid — trusted by 140 posters here
  3. eigenrobot — trusted by 122 posters here
  4. nosilverv — trusted by 142 posters here
  5. RichDecibels — trusted by 123 posters here
  6. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 129 posters here
  7. TylerAlterman — trusted by 114 posters here
  8. PrinceVogel — trusted by 106 posters here
  9. visakanv — trusted by 113 posters here
  10. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 82 posters here
  11. s0ulDirect0r — trusted by 80 posters here
  12. AskYatharth — trusted by 78 posters here

Top posts in Religion

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  1. Prophet: ok i'm gonna blow ur fuckin mind are u ready Disciples: yes Prophet: love people Disciples: [writing down] be a cop, got it (visakanv) — 53 likes
  2. [slams hand down on table] rationality is an attempt to reconstruct judaism but using exclusively the mind instead of the heart, and effective altruism is the same thing but for christianity.… (QiaochuYuan) — 45 likes
  3. "maybe we can figure it out together" is one of the names of God (Malcolm_Ocean) — 37 likes
  4. oh shit what if religions evolved to be a single source of truth that can be understood literally by the naive and metaphorically by the esoteric and therefore create solidarity across a great… (RichDecibels) — 35 likes
  5. can't believe i'm being led towards the most frustrating mix of woo beliefs i can imagine, "magic is definitely real and definitely works but god mostly doesn't want you to do it" (QiaochuYuan) — 32 likes
  6. We didn't kill God. We just took him apart to see how He worked and now we're putting Him back together (vividvoid) — 31 likes
  7. in my dream religion when you die god just, like, explains your entire life. like you see all the invisible forces that were acting on it, all the motivations of the people that were opaque to you,… (QiaochuYuan) — 29 likes
  8. a bunch of people grew up with no religion, went hyper-rationalist, left that behind, then started romanticizing religions as the New Truth,, but I'm now noticing that they never got the antibodies… (the_wilderless) — 29 likes
  9. God: Agapic lovePagan gods: distributed archetypesSoul: UnconsciousConsciousness: self-attentionChakras: embodied emotionsSpirits: semi-autonomous thought processesDemons: distributed processes that… (exgenesis) — 27 likes
  10. My favorite poem is actually a spell written by the ancient Egyptians: "Becoming a Light in the Darkness" (trans. Normandi Ellis)---Out of nothing I return to the white sea foam. I have made an end… (TylerAlterman) — 27 likes
  11. one thing I honestly do not understand is why there is not more serious scientific inquiry about “what happens after we die” except for this one UVa prof with a database of 2.5k cases of kids who… (relic_radiation) — 26 likes
  12. "Bitcoin" comes from the old Hebrew "Beit Cohen", meaning "house of the priest" or "temple". Jesus cleansed the temple in Jerusalem by driving out the money lenders. The implications of this on… (myhandle) — 25 likes
  13. a fun fact about the rationality and effective altruism communities is that they attract a lot of ex-evangelicals. they have this whole thing about losing their faith but still retaining all of the… (QiaochuYuan) — 25 likes
  14. lfg, God is good, wagmi, wagmi lfg forever and ever amen https://t.co/sTEF0sIBAo (RichDecibels) — 25 likes
  15. the way religious people talk to each other is fascinating. Heard this on the radio: Husband: "thinking of quitting my job" Wife: "is God calling you to leave, or are you running away?" (she's… (DefenderOfBasic) — 25 likes
  16. (me about to drag an unsuspecting rationalist to church) you might say its strong beliefs, held weekly (eigenrobot) — 24 likes
  17. hi new followers. quick lore recap > be me > rural new zealand fundamentalist christian family/school/church/everything > excommunicated age 20 > graduated engineering school, no good… (RichDecibels) — 24 likes
  18. hypothetically speaking if your parents massively failed to meet your emotional needs growing up it would be a pretty smart strategy to transfer your family loyalty to a supernatural parent in the… (RichDecibels) — 24 likes
  19. I'm a bit obsessed with @Plinz's reframe of Aquinas' 3 divine virtues 1. faith: take your place as a part of a higher-level agent 2. love: coordinate with others who serve the same higher agent 3.… (RichDecibels) — 23 likes
  20. A while ago I promised was going to write a little manifesto on spirituality. Here it is:Against “Spirituality”Hello! Welcome to my manifesto. Part One is called Spirituality is Bad, in which I… (TylerAlterman) — 23 likes
  21. I went to one of those new hippy secular spiritual but not religious churches and the first thing they said was we've got questions but we don't give answers you gotta use your own discernment and… (RichDecibels) — 23 likes
  22. communities can’t escape founder effects and nobody can escape their childhood religion. all you can do is deconstruct and reconstruct your relationship to it, one way or another (QiaochuYuan) — 22 likes
  23. just found a very cool world religions chartabsolutely no clue how it will look compressed but this thing goes crazy https://t.co/y1w96sws6f (michaelcurzi) — 22 likes
  24. if God’s not real why are boobs so nice? checkmate athiests (RichDecibels) — 22 likes
  25. do you think whales have religion. do you think when they talk about god they say that god is music. the most perfect harmony, the harmony of all things. and all whales are notes in the music of god (QiaochuYuan) — 22 likes
  26. Ok so I already knew Christianity is EXTREMELY CRACKED but here is two specific ways: Forgiveness - EXTREMELY cracked. If you start going around punishing slights it'll never end and will spiral… (nosilverv) — 22 likes
  27. ideological deconversion can be worse than that! i know a lot of ex-evangelicals, the kind who really believed. they'll tell you losing faith is like the world is ending. like there isn't goodness… (QiaochuYuan) — 21 likes
  28. Science fans really self-ID as atheists when every Nobel physicist talks about the universe in the awe-struck register of a medieval mystic (vividvoid) — 21 likes
  29. You’re building a pipeline to take someone from depressing materialist “we’re electric meat trapped on a spinning rock in space” worldview over to a more hopeful, present, interconnected “awe &… (the_wilderless) — 21 likes
  30. life protip 1. most religions have little self-help sections inserted into their holy texts and theyre usually pretty good 2. academic psychology is completely fake 3. so if you need to fix yourself… (eigenrobot) — 21 likes
  31. god made twitter to train the faithful https://t.co/Xvo1hfmREy (eigenrobot) — 21 likes
  32. prayer is co-regulation with the divine https://t.co/hsIy1XSlj4 (the_wilderless) — 21 likes
  33. if you have religious parents: ❌ trying to talk them out of religious dogmas ❌ avoiding talking about it altogether ✅ doing little epistemology exercises *within* the religion's framework (DefenderOfBasic) — 21 likes
  34. fascinating quote from an anthropologist realizing that people from other cultures can have a sense of humor about their spirituality https://t.co/3ut1bbJ7R0 https://t.co/1MkzV4lcXt (visakanv) — 20 likes
  35. the crisis of meaning was precipitated when sacredness was lost to us consequence of people being a bunch of little bitches who cant or wont commit to the bit during important rituals (eigenrobot) — 20 likes
  36. oh no what if Christians accidentally misinterpreted the sky father / earth mother, sun / moon duality in analogy with God / Devil and we ended up with the bodily, earthen, lunar, potential, depth,… (exgenesis) — 20 likes
  37. Such a gulf between people who grew up with religion, left it, and are going back with new eyes and the people who never had it and are just running in headfirst screaming 'lindy lindy lindy!' with… (the_wilderless) — 20 likes
  38. oh, i see. societies evolved taboos and rituals around sex, not because they were a morally inferior, irrational species, but because sex routinely fucked social relations up, and the cultures that… (AskYatharth) — 20 likes
  39. I now admit that it took me until today to start reading about Ian Stevenson's scientific evidence for past lives and...it's kinda shocking. Upon reflection, I put it off because I didn't want to… (TylerAlterman) — 20 likes
  40. Was skeptical abt this chakra stuff, but descriptions of root chakra blockage map almost perfectly onto my history & experience 😬Has anyone here successfully "healed" their root chakra… (TylerAlterman) — 19 likes
  41. Here is a stronger case for my original tweet: Transcendence, awe, wonder - the ability to commune with the great mystery of Being - these are irreplaceable parts of the human condition. Without… (vividvoid) — 19 likes
  42. i almost had it here but it’s not even a different religion https://t.co/FoJFkXovrH (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes
  43. this is an extremely specific subtweet of an event i was just at but i think if you ask a bunch of people to repeatedly chant religious mantras in a language they don't know it would be respectful,… (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes
  44. Most of the spirituality content I find floating around the internet functions exactly like porn. It conveys a fantasy to the viewer that they *could* have great wisdom and holiness whenever they… (vividvoid) — 19 likes
  45. Hindu-mythology themed roguelike where you are Vishnu. Each death progresses you through the ten avatars, in a cycle, each avatar having different powers and goals. There’s no way to win or lose… (eshear) — 19 likes
  46. This is EXACTLY what happened with Jesus https://t.co/qton7WJhXY (nosilverv) — 19 likes
  47. having a real God Is Good moment https://t.co/N4jm3QcRWL (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  48. I worry that some of you think buddhism is like, Real and I really worry that some of you think christianity is Definitely Real i'm mostly amused that some of you think philosophy is Real - but it's… (the_wilderless) — 19 likes
  49. All the world’s a stage? All the world’s a cage: Buddhism All the world’s a gauge: empiricism All the world’s a mage: animism All the world’s a page: occultism All the world’s a rage: Gnosticism All… (eshear) — 19 likes
  50. guys idk if you knew this but there are a lot of books about spirituality by a lot of people with a lot of different opinions about what to do in what order and how to make sense of everything and… (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes

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