cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22282731
Start your day with a moment of pessimism.
Jeez, just gonna call out half my extended family and damn near every "religious" person I've ever met in one truth bomb, eh Carl?
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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It's my impression that the ability for Instrospection is a rare trait in people as is Self-Criticism.
Not that I think Carl's dictum doesn't apply to those who have those traits: I just think it's harder for it to happen to them and it's easier (but not guaranteed) for them to spot that status of being captured by a belief in themselves and get out of it or at least try to work around it.
I am here to start a support group. Here are some things you might have been deceived on:
-Scientist and the science community have an agenda outside of: preforming science.
-Your religion is unique or special
-On that note, you are unique or special
-America is exceptional
-Government has the ability to solve every conflict
-Governement should solve every conflict
-Governement should exist exactly how it is now
-You will live long enough to explore the galaxy
-Everyone should want to have children and raise a family
-People in urban centers are different from people else where
The list goes on, feel free to add other common misconceptions.
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