You yourself just said that you’ve updated on your beliefs due to things you’ve heard here.
I’m not entirely sure that it’s beliefs I’ve updated on. Yeah, my attitude has changed since I started spending a lot of time on LW, but I was already an atheist before, too.
I don’t mean beliefs in a strictly religious sense (I didn’t think that’s how it’s usually used here, either), but your attitude might have changed due to your deeper understanding of human psychology/biology. Then again, I’m not following you around with a notepad. So you think that you haven’t learned anything useful from LessWrong?
I have learned things, and I guess they make it easier in some ways to understand how and why people can be wrong. I have definitely learned a lot of useful things, but I don’t find that ‘being annoyed by religious people’ is a useful thing to have learned.
Which is why I was pointing out that “being annoyed by religious people” is a side-effect of the learning, not a behavior that you purposely adopted. I’ve had similar struggles myself.
There are probably other social groups that dovetail your goals as well or better than the church, but sad to say, that group meetup you attended is not one of them.
I’m not entirely sure that it’s beliefs I’ve updated on. Yeah, my attitude has changed since I started spending a lot of time on LW, but I was already an atheist before, too.
I don’t mean beliefs in a strictly religious sense (I didn’t think that’s how it’s usually used here, either), but your attitude might have changed due to your deeper understanding of human psychology/biology. Then again, I’m not following you around with a notepad. So you think that you haven’t learned anything useful from LessWrong?
I have learned things, and I guess they make it easier in some ways to understand how and why people can be wrong. I have definitely learned a lot of useful things, but I don’t find that ‘being annoyed by religious people’ is a useful thing to have learned.
Which is why I was pointing out that “being annoyed by religious people” is a side-effect of the learning, not a behavior that you purposely adopted. I’ve had similar struggles myself.
There are probably other social groups that dovetail your goals as well or better than the church, but sad to say, that group meetup you attended is not one of them.