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Flying spaghetti monsterinan - God's not real you fucking idiot
I had not heard of it so went googling and maybe it rings a bell deep in my brain as something I was previously exposed to. I haven't
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Flying spaghetti monsterinan - God's not real you fucking idiot
I had forgotten about this thread, particularly how sensitive some are to taking their standard Hardcore Husky lumps when it comes to this topic.
Raised Nazarene, church and Sunday school every week, played on the basketball team, did lock-ins and trips and whatnot, friends also went there, yadda yadda yadda. Switched to the new Foursquare church that opened up around my freshman year in high school when everyone else did because it was the new hotness. Youth pastor spoke like a surf bra like literally every youth pastor on earth, but that's his job.
I never questioned it until I found myself with a long-term girlfriend who was smarter than me, not religious, and fine with me touching her vagina. It became kind of hard to keep going to church and being told that what I was doing was wrong and I was going to hell. That late in my mental development, it was literally the first challenge to religion I'd ever experienced, and I found out quickly that the whole concept was a house of cards in my mind. I mean, Jesus didn't have a vagina that I could touch. Amazing how silly it all suddenly seemed the very first time I actually stopped to think about it. From then forward, I decided to just ditch the whole concept and just do what makes me happy and be good to people, tie going to the latter.
Turns out I'm lucky (or not depending on where you stand in this thread). There is science behind the difficulty in changing one's mind. Every brain is built differently, both nature and nurture, and some people are going to find it far harder to change core beliefs. Google will return a thousand papers if you look, but a quick summary can be found in this article by some UConn professor titled Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don't Change Minds. Quick summary from the article:
"Your worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions. It influences how you think of yourself and how you interact with the world.
For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position."
There are few if any spring chickens at Hardcore Husky. Everyone here's had plenty of time and been provided with plenty of evidence to help them change their mind if they were ever going to. Comparing notes is fun and all, but the more detailed and researched the notes, the more pain centers are going to be activated in brains.
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Flying spaghetti monsterinan - God's not real you fucking idiot
I'm gonna check out this paper. Thanks for sharing.
