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One River, Many Wells
July 21, 2010 by Brandon Leave a Comment
All religions are not the same. All religions do not lead down the same path, or achieve the same goal. You may notice that there are some similarities that many religions share with each other, but make no mistake, one of those similarities is divisiveness.
For whatever the reason, I’ve been thinking about people who seem to think that all religions are a path to the same end. It’s called pluralism. It might be because the Dalai Lama recently said on his 75th birthday that all religions basically preach the same message.
How horribly untrue this is. The fact of the matter is the similar concepts that religions sometimes share and get right, ideas of compassion and love, are not ideals exclusive to religion, but to human nature. And that is why religions also happen to contain those messages. One only needs to delve under the thin veneer that religions coat themselves in to discover the darker, deleterious truth.
Personally, I think that those who subscribe to this pluralistic ideal are simply people who are afraid to be wrong. Perhaps they think that this is the correct answer to Pascal’s Wager. If they think any path is the correct path, then they’re certainly hedging their bet. The only problem is that they aren’t taking into consideration that nearly every religion, especially the major world religions, go to great lengths to describe how everyone but themselves are wrong, and that they are the one true path. Heck, they can’t even agree amongst themselves most of the time. There are an estimated 38,000 unique denominations of Christianity alone. Which one is right? Which ever one you belong to, and the others are all wrong.
So let’s be realistic. The idea that there many wells, but one river is silly. People either think this in a vain attempt to win a false cosmic gamble, or they’re just pretentious, conceded pricks who think that they sound deep and meaningful when puking up this nonsense.
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What is Fractal Wrongness?
The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.
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