joe4 comments on Third Alternatives for Afterlife-ism - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2007 07:41AM

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Comment author: joe4 08 May 2007 11:28:52PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer,

I am not sure I ever believed. However, that is not to say that there are not aspects which I find appealing.

I see religion mainly as a form of social control. In some cases, I see it as an attempt to add meaning to life, and to explain that which we either do not know, do not understand, or are incapable of ever knowing.

What is your perspective of the view from the eye of someone who had never believed?