The "belief" we're in a simulation is more like a interesting idea than something people organize their lives around. Is it possible? Yes. Am I going to praise the great programmer every Sunday? No.

The belief in God in most cases is not just belief in some general higher power but a very specific deity with weird morality, silly mythology and bunch of scam artists behind it.

I think there's a higher power...
Ok...
that got mad at us for eating fruits but then impregnated a lady with itself and pissed us off so that we murdered him and he could say he's not mad anymore.
... WTF?

[–] 5wim@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I more or less agree, but you keep using "believe" when you ought to use "belief." Just FYI.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ups, thanks. Totally missed that.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Oops."

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even more material for the "words you have been using wrong" thread.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

English is an endless deluge of that experience, because our orthography is bullshit. People have tried to fix it. Their clever rules were partly adopted and became even more exceptions and special cases.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep.

I just learned of the Shavian Alphabet yesterday. It's designed specifically for English and fits it well, except the sounds in it are so specific that when you write in it, you have to write in a specific regional accent. Fortunately it can't become a new set of special cases because it's an entirely new script not related to Latin.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At that point, surely we'd use the International Phonetic Alphabet instead.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The letter shapes are a lot nicer and they can all be written easily with a single stroke. IPA is really ugly IMHO.

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