Philosophy

Calling yourself an “atheist” or “agnostic” doesn’t excuse you from grappling with life’s great mysteries.

It’s a negative definition, like saying, “I’m not a wooly mammoth.”

You need a value system for the journey.

Otherwise, the algorithms will upload one into you.

Kinda seems wrong to equate atheist and agnostic imo 

Atheists have decided something about life’s great mysteries. It is a concrete position 

Agnostics are the fence sitters who can’t commit

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I don’t think anything above is untrue, however…

The original cast I think makes a very good point in the sense that there is a social use for having a unified belief about the world/universe and an atheist is not positing a new belief but just negating specific ones that already exist. The idea is that there is a social benefit (and maybe necessity) in having new unifying belief if you’re going to say the old one is wrong

Epistemologically, atheists could be correct but pragmatically they are failing

When the status quo fails to deliver what it used to promise, you get a lot of people willing to trust alternatives that are unproven or would have seemed ridiculous previously.

The problem is that there will always be way more bad alternatives than good ones.

Disagree. It's fundamentally the same position on the more important axis, but just shifted up or down on the axis of epistemological hubris

The key position is 'I do not subscribe to this one firmly-prescribed notion [that a judeo-christian, bearded, ripped, white haired god exists], despite its broad support'

and then spiced up with certainty or doubt

Which is not a radical matter in the grand scope of all possibilities, but it's a pretty culturally significant one in the context of actual reality

Kind of reminds me of this cast

rereading that, I was pretty messy and unclear

theistic vs not theistic is a much bigger deal than certain vs uncertain in the context of western culture, which is so deeply steeped in theism

so I think it's fair to lump atheist and agnostic together almost always

Disagree. It's fundamentally the same position on the more important axis, but just shifted up or down on the axis of epistemological hubris

The key position is 'I do not subscribe to this one firmly-prescribed notion [that a judeo-christian, bearded, ripped, white haired god exists], despite its broad support'

and then spiced up with certainty or doubt

Which is not a radical matter in the grand scope of all possibilities, but it's a pretty culturally significant one in the context of actual reality

Kind of reminds me of this cast

https://farcaster.xyz/ryanfmason/0xad9062fd