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User23 on March 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on

> There's a certain IQ threshold for that, as it requires the de novo construction of a new metaphysics.

That IQ threshold isn’t very high as witnessed by the proliferation of supposedly novel midwit metaphysics propounded on the Internet.

“It’s all random and emergent man” isn’t any kind of impressive intellectual construct.

karp773 on March 28, 2023 [–]

Just dumping the old one does not require much IQ or anything, really. It's the establishing of a long lasting replacement that's hard, as evidenced by the very few successful world religions.

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