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1. moderngamebantam said: @kontextmaschine interesting, I’ll have to look those up! lots of overlap between various Christian cults
2. kontextmaschine said: @moderngamebantam this was literally on the territory of the old Azusa street revival and there were tons of peculiar little congregations left around from that and the 60s-70s wave
3. moderngamebantam said: @kontextmaschine ah, no, JWs don’t distribute food! but they do believe fortune-tellers are evil… my mistake!
4. kontextmaschine said: @moderngamebantam there were some missionaries in LA who brought me a pretty random sack of food once and then wanted to read from the Bible with me but it was some weird shit about the nephilim and the evil of fortune tellers, that sound about right?
5. moderngamebantam said: do you, by any chance, have experience with Jehovah’s Witnesses? because those exact two questions feature in countless of their publications and “nothing” is likewise not considered within their culture
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8. kontextmaschine said: @ethnianmandarin we may have reached similar evaluations but assigned them different meanings and values
9. fruityyamenrunner said: nihilist annihilation is the default secular view. i don’t understand what your realisation was. did you have some lingering assumption that the default was still vaguely Christian?
10. kontextmaschine said: …what? Please explicate.
11. fruityyamenrunner reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:

    idgi. what was ur pre-realisation view on The Secular Answer

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    Thinking about how both formalized religion and "spirituality" were sold to me in the 20th century as "Answering the...