Grail
Legislators will do anything except build a tram
It should say "gods are a fairy tale". "god is a fairy tale" is misleading grammar if you don't mean there's one. You wouldn't say "gremlin is a fairy tale", you'd say "gremlins are a fairy tale".
That depends on your definition of the word "god". Einstein certainly wasn't an Abrahamist, he was a pantheist. He believed the entire universe was comprised by a divine whole.
You shouldn't use "god" as a proper noun. No one being owns the concept of being a god. You're just legitimising Abrahamism, you're not helping the atheist cause. Helping Abrahamists erase polytheism doesn't lead to more atheism, it leads to more Abrahamists.
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/a-soulist-manifesto-4d0456dcb75a
All that being said, this isn’t really anything you can live by. At least I can’t. Most metaphysics are so much shit on a prick and untestable.
Oh, I live by anarcho-antirealism, and it's been very helpful in My life. For example, I used chaos magic to cure My girlfriend's sleep apnea - https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/curing-sleep-apnea-with-magic-vi-s-spellbook-d1c6f1658cdb
Here’s a theroy: holding power and wealth in modern society may not be strongly correlated with an accurate view of objective reality but is strongly correlated in strongly believing you have an accurate view of objective reality
I actually disagree with this as well. The rich and powerful certainly act like they believe in reality, because it's a useful tool for them. But they don't truly believe. They correctly understand the scientific fact that perception is belief, and so they manipulate public belief through the news media to rewrite the universe in their favour. Rupert Murdoch is probably the person who understands and practices this the best. His news empire rewrites consensus reality to favour Capital. This is bad, and we need antirealism so we can take this power away from the rich and "seize the means of perception".
Well the former president of the united states doesn't know that Israel is bad either, so knowing something he doesn't know isn't very hard.
Whoops, I'm too used to typing an S in web addresses. The link should work now.
I think people are trying to work off of objective reality, and that's a problem. For example, TERFs correctly understand that gender identity is subjective, but they make the mistake of thinking sex is objective. Because they're committed to working off objective reality, they believe sex is more important than gender, and dismiss gender. Thus, all their transphobia. If they didn't believe in reality, they wouldn't be TERFs. They'd value the subjective construct of sex and the subjective construct of gender identity equally in terms of truth, and recognise that gender identity is important to our wellbeing. I wish people didn't try to follow reality.
Money is a god. It has no existence in the physical world. In the physical world, it's just paper, common metals, and bytes. But in the social world, it's the arbiter of law, morality, life, and death. It controls all of society. I can't think of a better example of a god.
You may be aware that money isn't truly real, but you still engage in its rituals, live life as it demands. It has become your social reality. We must acknowledge that all things are subjective, so we can destroy them if they do wrong. There is no objective truth, we decide our world.
That's because anthropologically, realism is pretty new. The idea of a single objective truth to encapsulate the whole universe was an idea invented by the Romans. And everyone knows what the Romans did to religious diversity in Europe. Most cultures in the history of the world have to some degree acknowledged the subjectivity of perception and the self-contradictory nature of "objective truth".
I'm part of a political movement that opposes Roman/Abrahamic style realism. We believe it's the cause of the crusades, slavery, the nakba, the holocaust, the witch trials, and all of history's other greatest atrocities. True freedom will only come when we are free to perceive differently than those in authority. To live in a different perceptual universe.