fubarobfusco comments on Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 29 November 2012 06:19AM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 29 November 2012 08:22:55AM 0 points [-]

If it was really "experimental", it would be science, not philosophy.

There was a fellow in the early 20th century who labeled his religious writings with the catch-phrase, "The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion."

Comment author: Nornagest 29 November 2012 08:34:42AM 4 points [-]

Crowley was surprisingly lucid in methods for someone with a habit of calling himself "The Great Beast 666"; much of his work might be described as what you'd get if you took an empiricist epistemology and applied it to a profoundly anti-reductionist ontology. I've gotten some mileage out of his quotes on religious practice elsewhere.

Comment author: Bugmaster 29 November 2012 08:34:30AM 0 points [-]

So did L. Ron Hubbard, doesn't mean that either of them was right. But at least your guy didn't extort money from his followers, AFAIK...