Doesn't that kinda make Scar correct in his dismissal of Mufasa and Simba and make him the good guy? And yes I'm aware some societies had adoptable heirs, like the Roman emperors.
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Not sure why you're trying to go so hard at me, but w/e.
The fact that they are errors in thinking is why you don't actually have to have them. Religions and magical thinking aren't requirements for being human, they are merely and outgrowth of the how the human brain tends to work. I don't see correcting attribution errors as an inhuman act.
I feel like your argument wouldn't make sense when applied towards religion rather than away from it. Couldn't you say the exact same thing about human behaviors regarding sex or violence, and that claiming there might be a need to control them is also anti-human?
I don't think it's particularly anti-human to ask people to discipline themselves.
That wasn't meant to be a go at you, just atheism in general. You weren't speaking as yourself so my response wasn't at yourself but the concepts as a whole.
I didn't intend personal offense with it, and you know I would own that if I did.
The inhumanity is in thinking you are capable of it. Its ascribing that your conscious mind is superior to the subconscious and that you are capable of wrangling your mind (the thing you use to have such thoughts) to your will.
Its ironically magical thinking itself to think that because you think "I am free of these silly errors" means you actually are, when many of those silly errors are designed by your brain to make you never even aware you are making them in the first place. Your brain loves to straight delete data and your perception of reality if it sense you might be wrong about something, and it will emotionally invest you in something to keep that hidden.
That's why its such an insidious organ and you must be on constant vigilance against its machinations. My issue with what you said was that in thinking you can actually leave all that behind, instead of being a constant lifelong struggle of discipline, much like an alcoholic who is never truly "free" but rather just sober today.
Discipline is the correct choice, but its anti-human to say that your process can actually purge you of things that are inherently human, not simply religious failings.
No problem, no offense taken.
And yeah, I think we're actually on the same page. There's no way to purge that. I definitely think there's many political philosophies that claim that, but all of them are false. You can't get away from magical thinking, you're going to do it, but you have to be vigilant enough to recognize it when it happens, correct for it when it does, and hopefully keep yourself from doing it too often.
That's really what I mean when I say "taking the mantel of responsibility onto yourself" as part of the Deconversion process. You can never off-load that responsibility ever again. You must permanently hold that responsibility for your mind going forward, otherwise it's merely an abdication of responsibility. You can't pass it to someone else and just trust an institution or authority to handle that responsibility for you.
It's a bit of a curse. You "bit the apple", as it were. You can never go back, and you're also never finished.
Yes then, we are in agreement here.