Johnicholas comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

215 Post author: PhilGoetz 19 September 2009 09:05PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 21 September 2009 03:26:18AM 17 points [-]

IIRC, the position of the Catholic Church is that the death and resurrection of Jesus fulfilled the Covenant and freed humans from the obligation to live according to the Jewish law of the Old Testament. In other words, sometimes the blind spots are explicitly acknowledged and handwaved away instead of being overlooked.

Comment author: Johnicholas 21 September 2009 12:28:22PM 7 points [-]

Is this an example of Lampshade Hanging?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging

Comment author: DSimon 15 October 2010 09:38:49PM 2 points [-]

Maybe closer to an attempted conversion from Fridge Logic into Fridge Brilliance.