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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone who has ever done IT (or has elderly parents) feels this in their bones

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1d

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. Including atheists, which is what I was getting at.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 7h

That is not my premise, and I challenge you to show me where I said anything beyond "there is an arrogance reflected in atheists' surety of their beliefs." Nothing of disrespect or cruelty.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, my position is based on my ignorance, but go off I guess

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

Ok. I see what you're saying.

hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

No. It doesn't. But there seems to be no shortage of vocal atheists who don't feel the same.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

And I don't need it to be epistemologically sound! My only concern is that the person was moved by their experience, even if I didn't share it.

hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

Sure I am. If someone tells me, "I saw my dead grandmother and she spoke to me," I can share the comfort they might feel from that knowledge, without having to say, "No you didn't there are no ghosts."

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

If you're automatically connecting religious folks to racists, I'm not sure what else to say. Yeah, religious people do horrible things. They even do it in the name of religion. But if you're just going to return prejudice with prejudice, you've proven my point.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

No. I'm an agnostic. I accept that there are people who have sincere spiritual and religious experiences, even if I myself do not.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, I take threats against my queer ass seriously, so, yeah?

Have you ever met a religious person you respected? Or are they all beyond the pale? What about people who have sincere experiences that improve them? Should I just deny that out of hand because I don't have the same experience?

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

Silly Gnome. Where did I say you have to accept anything? Why do you think I'm a believer?

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

There it is! What makes you think I "don't believe in material reality"? Why are people who are religious, "silly?"

In point of fact, you couldn't be farther from the truth, as far as my beliefs.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

I can accept that you believe that, and that's cool, but it is hardly a widely held belief amongst vocal atheists. Look at all the people insulting others for believing in a "sky daddy" or the thinly veiled derision for anyone "dumb" enough to be religious or spiritual. That's what I'm calling out.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

It's a knowledge claim: I know that there are no gods, spirits, etc. Anyone who believes those things is wrong. That's the arrogance.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

As a point of self-correction, it should be "theists" not "deists." Apparently I had early American religious movements on my brain.

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

But how do you know? How can you be so sure?

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

On what basis? How do you know your beliefs are the true ones? How can you be so sure?

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 8h

Are you sure about that?

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 9h

AFAIC, being an atheist is an inherently arrogant position; it presumes an individual has the answers to some of our deepest questions. It's the mirror to deists who revile secular humanism. I consider being an agnostic the only respectful position for a nonreligious person: I doubt, but don't know

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 12h

They said they wanted to dismantle the administrative state and now they're doing it. Pretty straightforward

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 1d

Relieved she was released, but still disgusted she was taken

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

An update from WGN on Debbie Brockman: "Earlier today, a WGN-TV creative services employee was detained by ICE. She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her. Out of respect for her privacy, we will have no further statements about this incident.”

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

This morning, masked Border Patrol agents violently pinned a longtime WGN-TV producer to the ground after detaining another unidentified male in Chicago, eventually arresting her and hauling her off in an unmarked silver van.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 1d

the Milkshake Man
the Milkshake Man
Bringin it up whenever he can!
It's the Milkshake
Milkshake Man

hobgoblin of spooky mind @bigblueguitar.bsky.social · 1d

It's like not all Latinx people are the same. Huh. Strange world, innit?

Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

The way people are celebrating this Trumper who supports the killing of her own people off the coast of Latin America is wild to me. She is not who you think she is. Neither she nor Trump deserves the Nobel.

But what do I know? I've only been covering Venezuela for more than a decade.

Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 1d

Woot woot! All day long with this great news! I just love the taste of tangerine clown tears in the morning. 😏

#NobelPeacePrize #TrumpLost #Pinks

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1d

"The administration is doing dumb things, this proves they will fail."

1. They are not as dumb as you think in the areas that matter to them: grabbing power.

2. Being dumb is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarianism. Hiring based on loyalty does that.

3. This thinking is what leads to inaction.

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