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I wonder--is living with someone who shares your philosophical viewpoint a good idea? I'm not suggesting that we should all go live with fundamentalists just to be in contact with someone different, but living with someone whose beliefs are a mirror image of your own reeks of confirmation bias (especially if they are actively involved in the rationalist community). I lived with a very religious person for a year, and we managed to get along.
I have similar reservations about the rationalist community as a whole, especially in light of reading about that anti-evolutionist woman being booed at the atheists convention in Australia. As with almost all communities, some level of groupthink seems inevitable. Then again, I've never actually been to a meeting, so I'm only speculating.
I don't know if I could live with someone who didn't think that neodeconstructive rationalism evokes the same fusion of Dionysian and Apollonian drives as the classic Greek tragedy.
Haha, I spent a good five minutes trying to figure out what you were talking about before I figured it out.
April Fool's Day aside, though, shouldn't we try to be tolerant of other people's beliefs, at least to the point where we can live happily with someone who doesn't take their religion too seriously? I'm not suggesting that we should respect those beliefs (after all, there is a difference between tolerance and respect), but I am in favor of tolerance.