Atheist, materialist, and libertarian views typical for this group; no drastic conversion involved from any previous views, so not much of a rationalist origin story.
Bit of a non sequitur I made there. How did I come to value rationality itself, rather than all those other things that are some of its fruits? I always have, to the extent that I knew there was such a thing. I remember coming across the books of Korzybski, Tony Buzan, Edward de Bono, and the like, in my teens, and enjoyed similar themes in science fiction. OB is the most interesting thing I’ve come across in recent years. For the same reasons I’ve also been interested in “mysticism”, but still have no idea what it is or any experience of it. Who will found “Overcoming Woo” to write a blog-book on the subject?
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Bit of a non sequitur I made there. How did I come to value rationality itself, rather than all those other things that are some of its fruits? I always have, to the extent that I knew there was such a thing. I remember coming across the books of Korzybski, Tony Buzan, Edward de Bono, and the like, in my teens, and enjoyed similar themes in science fiction. OB is the most interesting thing I’ve come across in recent years. For the same reasons I’ve also been interested in “mysticism”, but still have no idea what it is or any experience of it. Who will found “Overcoming Woo” to write a blog-book on the subject?