*shrugs*
the only magic I've ever seen in my life is Pavel Datsyuk stickhandling a puck.
Just not my bag. Not here to shit on anyone else's beliefs or happiness, but I am everything you folks hate about "rationalists" minus the burning hate on for "debating" spiritual people and "proving" a negative.
I have never felt God's love because I have never felt God, either. Don't do tarot, don't do praying, don't do rituals.
If it's working for you, I ain't here to stop ya. But it's not for me.
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You misspelled "Ray Bourque", but okay.
@tlariv Loved those 90's era Boston teams. Convinced Cam Neely would be Alex Ovechkin if Kasparitus hadn't wrecked his knee.
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It was funny when I moved to Chicago and Jeremy Roenick was Neely and Chelios was Bourque (right down to both being traded away so they could win the cup they'd never get if they srayed)
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Only without being buds with Putin.
@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm constantly thinking about magic but mostly from the perspective of a rationalist who is worried about how autonomously complex bad ideas are capable of becoming. I also have some sort of schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and this complicates things further in unpleasant ways. f I'm trying to sell anything, it's a commitment to fighting a new front in the war on bad and predatory epistemics. If that front doesn't exist, or no longer, or can be prevented from existing, those are welcome revelations. I also don't have most of the normal anxieties people have about it, with respect to purity, or literally existing versions of mythical figures, or subversion of authority. There is a big ignored space at a critical time in history which all the worst people are engaged with and none of the best people are engaged with. It's going to concern me. The reasonable nature of the disengagement doesn't mollify me because it's only reasonable under non-adversarial thinking
That "magic" btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHxlzJPevxQ
(Warning, pretty sure Pavel is a big Putin guy and he went absolutely NUTS Orthodox fundie during Covid 19... so he's fun to watch, but he is not a great human being)
@AnarchoNinaWrites For a few of those goals the goalie is just standing there like... why am I even here when it doesn't matter at all?
@complexmath yeah, absolutely. I have never seen a guy with dangles like that. He can fake you out so hard there is no CHANCE to make the save.
