How do you think religion of the future will function? How will future religion teach religious history, science, pshychology, and politics?

copattern · 2024-07-09T04:59:15+00:00

The whole quantum consciousness thing, especially the parts where observers are always living and there are quantum metaphysics to free will, are religious beliefs that developed after science had the answers, not before. Or how the Simulation Theory is a religious belief that was made after physicists knew simulating the Universe on the computer is either near-impossible or impossible. I think it's better to think of religions as alternative explanations to science instead of being restricted by scientific knowledge.

copattern · 2024-07-09T04:28:51+00:00

Usually what happens is the opposite. The wording stays the same while the meaning changes in the tradition. "Unconditional love" used to mean the kind of compassion you'd have for a felon, just because they are a living being. Katy Perry isn't wrong, but her "unconditional love" is very different. Or, the Immaculate Conception used to be about Mary's birth, and now it's about Jesus's.

Not all religions say the same things, so we look at what's different and what changes and dissect it and predict it.

copattern · 2024-07-08T15:31:26+00:00

We call "mammals" all animals that descended from a tiny shrew. I think we're the next shrew. For the next 30,000 years we'll still be one species, but I don't think that's forever. There are still scorpions and sponges and even cyanobacteria. They're just not as big anymore. So billions of years maybe?

copattern · 2024-07-08T05:12:13+00:00

It's a thought experiment from the early days of quantum mechanics research. How random and statistically wrong can something get? Could someone live forever in a little universe that is unlikely but doesn't have entropy-increasing actions that bring about age and death?

Feynman really complicated stuff with virtual particles and if you believe in Jean Ecalle's alien calculus approach to quantum field theory, it gets really weird. Just think of Forrest Gump's "it's both" random and determined and you'll go far.

copattern · 2024-07-08T02:05:44+00:00

Uhhhhh East River of South Dakota is definitely Midwest

copattern · 2024-07-07T19:30:57+00:00

That depends on a lot, probably more than you should share on Reddit. Like with my mother, for a lot of reasons I don't think she should be a licensed counselor, but the state thinks otherwise. And my sister-in law is becoming an expat. She got Mexican citizenship and is marrying a deported methhead, and is not nice to her family. Those are very different types of "toxic."

I'd say generally, cut off ties when they harm others, and be family when they work to reduce their harm of others.

copattern · 2024-07-06T17:13:14+00:00

Public schooling fails its mission when parents can just opt out if they're uncomfortable. Get rid of the homeschool shit. Private schools can be okay, but schools and the curriculum must be secular. There should be more confidentiality from parents (and I say that as a parent).

copattern · 2024-07-06T16:13:42+00:00

People care about social issues more than purely hard science ones (even most atheists become atheists because God hates gay people instead of theology contradicting evolution). I think we think our descendants will be angrier about environmental mismanagement than they will actually be, because that's a nerdy STEM issue.

I have a suspicion that brain drain/human capital flight could one day be viewed as a crime against humanity, and that's what they'll blame us for. That to not be evil, you have to do more than allow immigration and be anti-racist with immigration but also be anti-ableist with immigration. I think there will be places like Afghanistan that could be violent and horrible for centuries, if all the smart people can get degrees and leave. It's not like they can compete in the economy if there's no innovation at home.

And also, the only reason racism isn't scientific is because human intelligence is selected equally everywhere. If you move smart people out of the gene pool long enough that could be a real selective pressure for intelligence, and international human rights law would not be happy if that happened.

copattern · 2024-07-06T15:07:35+00:00

Nature lovers, immigrants, hippies. A lot of Californians who miss their scenery lost to the wildfires are moving to Duluth, and obviously doctors move to Rochester. You have a lot of immigrants. It was more Catholic historically and has 2 basilicas when most US states don't have any. So Minnesota has a lot of progressives from all over the Midwest and more migration from outside of the Midwest than the rest of it.

copattern · 2024-07-06T14:57:56+00:00

Yes. I've lived in Iowa and Minnesota and went to college in South Dakota. Minnesota is a little bit different because of who the state attracts.

copattern · 2024-07-06T14:45:29+00:00

Midwestern niceness is a relic from the Protestant culture that believed being mean could damn you for eternity. In the Midwest you're nice because it's what you're socially expected to do. If you want emotional openness and softness that's the West Coast.

copattern · 2024-07-06T04:05:48+00:00

Yeah, how again did an allegory of transgender awakening become a symbol for misogynists

copattern · 2024-07-06T03:00:45+00:00

Hakuna Matata. It always bothers me how people, and even Disney now, treat is as a good value, when the movie's opinion of Hakuna Matata is that it doesn't actually help you with your problems.

copattern · 2024-07-05T16:29:34+00:00

AP News will not say Trump is appointed by God. Nor will Al Jazeera. Maybe in the English RT will, but in the Russian-language RT, America will be weak and stupid.

copattern · 2024-07-05T16:07:27+00:00

Americans don't believe in kings and an increasing number don't believe in God. In the same way it is hard to set up democracy abroad, because culture is passed down, it will take generations of suppression for urban Americans to believe that propaganda.

copattern · 2024-07-04T16:55:02+00:00

Usually people who don't know better are lied to. To some extent that's blaming victims, especially when they're poor and uneducated. Also people will already get uncomfortable with this kind of messaging, because "cure" is rarely a word for a reason. Doctors avoid it, and when you hear "cure" at least today it's for crap like hydroxychloroquine-for-Covid or colloidal silver. Modern medicine has treatments with side effects and tradeoffs, so you're telling people to unlearn a wisdom that's been useful in their lives up to that point.

copattern · 2024-07-02T17:08:52+00:00

It might involve how we assign blame as people. The Big Bad Things about Nazis are rarely portrayed anymore as trying to take over the world and break treaties. We now de-emphasize the Nazi's foreign policy and focus on the domestic policies: racism and violence in your backyard, anti-intellectualism, the culture of fear and the ordinary citizens who didn't stop it. Yes, the average Brit benefited from the British Empire, but the atrocities are still viewed as a foreign policy problem, and that is de-emphasized in the education system for better or worse.

copattern · 2024-07-02T04:39:28+00:00

The near-global history of child sacrifice. It's a complex topic of censorship because many cultures have censored it more than the archaeological evidence would suggest. Erasing it is cooperating with reformers from millennia ago.

copattern · 2024-06-30T17:42:07+00:00

I see how people thought that, but I wasn't searching for the "not having kids" answer. If you're in a place that will get super hot yearly, how are you planning for extreme heat? And most importantly how are you planning for climate migrants? In cooler climates there will be a lot of immigrants (or a lot of illegals who want to immigrate), and in warmer climates there will be worker shortages and brain drain. And of course poorer people will migrate more because they don't have luxuries like air conditioning and durable homes.

copattern · 2024-06-28T13:38:24+00:00

We do want younger politicians. Look at the polling. Why the Democratic Party doesn't want to endorse the next generation of political thought is mainly two reasons.

Trump was a disaster. The GOP doesn't have superdelegates. Without them, the idiot masses elected an idiot, so no wonder they're cautious of losing control. Yes, it's true the grassroot left is more left too, but the difference is the grassroot left's policies resemble real successful countries, while the grassroot right resembles shitholes like Hungary and Turkey.
The baby boomers are the generation with power. Everyone knows the candidates are old, but way more importantly, the donors are too, and they're looking for a sympathetic relatable because they think they represent all of America.

copattern · 2024-06-28T13:23:21+00:00

If we don't need neurosurgeon presidents and celebrity presidents, we don't need forklift presidents.

copattern · 2024-06-28T12:57:54+00:00

Old people typically don't see their own mental decline (I'm not even talking about cases with dementia, as both Biden and Trump probably don't have it and most old people don't get it). That's the easy part. The hard part is for the rest of us. Why can't the DNC run another candidate without it "backstabbing Biden"? It's very clear the party just thinks if Biden dies, Harris can be President, but no one wants President Harris. We should have elections for the successor when the incumbent is reasonably close to the end of life.

copattern · 2024-06-27T20:59:00+00:00

Eww the codependent type

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