calcsam comments on Resetting my perception of something - Less Wrong

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Comment author: calcsam 18 October 2011 11:49:53PM 6 points [-]

This might sound obvious, but:

Spending time frequently with different groups of friends with different value systems, each of which (you believe) has an accurate map of different parts of the world.

My experience:

My rationalist friends help me inject more empiricism/anti-happy-death-spiral memes into my church experience; my church friends help me keep other memes like "non-smart people are still worthwhile," "actions perceived as demonstrating character and virtue aren't all just signalling," and of course the "no sex, no drugs" purity meme.

I am in favor of all of the preceding memes but tend to forget each of them over time if I spend too long in a community that doesn't observe them.

Comment author: atorm 19 October 2011 01:28:05PM 7 points [-]

I grew up a very religious child, and I kept the no-sex meme long after I stopped being religious. Can you explain why you value no-sex purity?