i think i'd like to do a religion thread on here some time. a way to whet my writing, which i've put off for too long. i'd want it to be opening up some of the repetitions i see in the discourses of ostensibly left critics (like anarchists)
i wonder how the Brent Nongbri book "Before Religion" would be received
i'm just saying the refrain of "i'm against religion because i'm against all false realities" really falls flat when you examine "religion" as a category at all
@exiliaex what the fuck is a reality that's some christian shit
@exiliaex @ZiaNitori isn’t reality just the medium through which we can affect each other and be affected?
@ZiaNitori @exiliaex is mean i guess i don’t really know a strong argument against solipsism
@destroy @exiliaex people use solipsism to describe anything they find absurd and i've yet to see what's absurd about being critical of someone trying to make a general claim about something "we" both experience especially when we presumably can experience radically different realities. the way you frame it too as the medium through which beings can affect each other also just sounds way to similar to reality being defined via relations to other beings which just screams christian to me cause those mfers think you can come to know gods world through correspondence with others
@ZiaNitori @destroy i would be heavily interested in reading some deleuze with you two and discussing its implications for world-making
@exiliaex @destroy ok but before deleuze i gotta read nietzche and before that i'm doing a bible reading group lmao