timtyler comments on BHTV: Yudkowsky & Adam Frank on "religious experience" - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 March 2009 01:33AM

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Comment author: timtyler 23 March 2009 10:51:30PM 5 points [-]

You are doubing there are things of value in religions? Many religions contain things which have proved to be valuable in modern times. Consider Hinduism and Hatha Yoga, for example. Civilisation didn't get Hatha Yoga because science rediscovered it - it got it from the Hindu religious tradition.

Comment author: ciphergoth 24 March 2009 07:52:39AM 4 points [-]

Sure, so let's dump the religion and keep the yoga.