Johnny_Logic comments on Professing and Cheering - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 August 2007 07:20AM

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Comment author: Johnny_Logic 02 August 2007 03:58:16PM 11 points [-]

More and more, I get the sense that the metaphor-loving religious are promoting something like their right to willingly suspend disbelief, like gamer does when involved in a 'verse, like WoW. It has the same virtues: community, immersion, the thrill of exercising imagination and participating in grand narratives. Only, World of Warcraft buffs don't let their fantasy life impinge on the public sphere as often. I'm aware that I will likely receive flak for drawing this analogy, as it seems terribly dismissive.