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You know, this does illustrate the problems with false binaries in a lot of ways. The comments on Youtube, however, are not funny. It brings me to another point. There a few basic rules I have in life. Here are two of them: never engage in a land war in Asia and never read the comments on YouTube.
I feel similarly about Twilight:
I, however, disagree that Twilight is “impressively well-written.”
For years, even when I was practicing Theravadan buddhism, I never understood why people gave Tibetan Buddhist an out and painted Buddhism as a sort of proto-secular humanism. While there are some very good things in Buddhist literature–Kalama Sutta, also known as the Buddha’s demand of free inquiry, being a prime example–Buddhist history is loaded with many things that people rage about in other contexts, particularly when done by Muslims or Catholics.
I am will be working on the “Skeptic Cult,” but I can’t figure out how to turn DOUBT and EMPIRICISM into a means of cult power despite what many conspiracy buffs I have known say.
Imagine the Tenets that I would try to get cult devotion for:
- Trust ONLY what you see and is consistent with experiments and structured logic…
- Doubt others’ claims, doubt your own intuition, doubt your own biases and motives.
- Trust but verify.
- Just because some experienced something doesn’t mean your explanation for it is valid.
- Anecdotes are not proofs.
- Differ to experts only when they have compiling evidence.
- Differ judgment until you have all the context to understand something.
- This is probably the only life you have–don’t waste it.
I really can’t see jihadis, people’s churches, martyrs, crusades, pyramid schemes, and what not in the name of this sort of thing. I mean its hard to get people to follow you unconditionally when you teach them to treat like as conditional.
