One that comes to mind is "Religion for Atheists". It is a great book that highlights the non-spiritual functions of religion in society. The idea is by identifying what function you got out of religion in the past, you may find ways to replace it without getting involved in the collective delusion of pretending to know the unknowable.
If you're stepping away from the god of Abraham, you could always read Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" but i dont really recommend most people read Nietzsche without some solid footing in philosophy and some helpful context, since he can lead people to some straight up Nazi shit which he elsewhere explicitly warned against. Context important with him. But it's a scathing criticism of the role of dogma in society.
If you feel a need for a spiritual drink without relapsing on god, I recommend exploring the Dao De Jing. It's another one that benefits from context, rereading, and meditation, but it can explain the world quite nicely without need of an invested anthropomorphic god.
Finally, you might want to pick up some existentialist literature if you feel like life has no meaning and you're lost. Sartre or Frankl come to mind.
Meat chickens are totally different from egg chickens. The meat ones are born to die and don't live nearly as long, so the virus hasn't affected the population as much.
Yeah, linguistics is always an absolute abomination in Trek. i'm just getting through Enterprise now and despite the idea of the development of the universal translator being done by a hot korean linguist of my dreams, you'd think this show would culminate in everything i love in the world, and yet it's tacky, poorly thought out, and leaves so much unexplained. yeah, okay, she can communicate in a brand new language if she just believes in herself. right, that's how it works. they just can't handle linguistics in Trek. i wish they just overlooked it altogether and attributed it to narrative limitations.
BUT that said, the Darmok people communicate via allegory. you're right that allegory would need something to be based on, which indicates that the proto-language for the Allegorical Language was something that did have more familiar semantics. but over time it evolved to only use the allegories as signifiers themselves, thus words like "welcome" fell into antiquity while "his arms wide" came into common usage. honestly this episode was one of the rare times when linguistic questions were handled with somewhat appropriate depth and care! there's a lot of cool questions we could look at from the idea of an allegorical language.
also props to Enterprise for at least suggesting something cool in the Risa episode of S1: "i can't say it any slower; it'd change the meaning". i have never heard of an Earth language with this property. do you know if there is one? what other Trek episodes do linguistics well?
Sorry but the language here alienates those who cannot have kids. you can speak for youself just fine but the response as stated was gross. ugh you're gonna fuckin reply to me again aren't you. i really dont want to continue with this discussion, please, as a personal favor
lemmy needs a fucking disable inbox replies option. i dont want to block anyone and i feel the need to point out this perspective but i really hate getting msgs like these on this particular subject days later
I see the misunderstanding, sorry. You're still in the wrong though. while you weren't calling it thinking, the article certainly was. THAT'S why we're saying it's not. we're doing what you said we should, but it's the inverse, and you call it anti-AI. the jackass who wrote that article is jumping the gun and we're saying "how tf can you call it thinking" and i see your reply calling that anti AI, seems like a reasonable mistake ye?
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