Rottcodd

@Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does one's autism affect their religious beliefs? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The way it made me really think about how truly expansive space and time are really made me think that “that’s not impossible to think that there is a 11th dimension being that has some agenda that we cannot understand.”

  Absolutely.

  But that’s not what I’m talking about.

  I’m talking about making the leap from recognizing that such a being could exist to believing that such a being does exist. That, to me, is so bizarrely irrational that I can’t even work out how it is that people apparently actually do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does one's autism affect their religious beliefs? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah - I don’t even really understand how all of that works. I see that people apparently sincerely believe, but I have no idea how - what it is that goes on inside their brains that allows them to make that leap to actually believing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does one's autism affect their religious beliefs? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know that it does, but I can see how it could.

  One way that neurodivergence can manifest is as a relative inability to simply assume things - a relatively outsized need for clear evidence on which to base a conclusion. And religion is notably devoid of actual evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aliens should take over to help us or something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I sincerely believe that if any aliens are observing us, they’ve concluded that we actually value and reward insanity and loathe and punish sanity.

  And they wouldn’t be entirely wrong…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does a whataboutist know that he is a ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it, particularly because it’s almost certainly the case that the people who deride it when others do it do it themselves in other situations.

  It’s far and away most common in partisan politics, and it happens because the simple fact of the matter is that most professional politicians and political parties are loathsome slimeballs, and the only thing a partisan can dependably say in support of their preferences is that they’re (purportedly) better than the alternative. So it’s nearly always the case that in attempting to defend or advocate for their preference, they’ll bring up the alternative and shift focus to them.