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army1987 comments on Open Thread, November 15-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 November 2013 01:45:39PM 0 points [-]

For some value of “normal”... Watch Good Bye, Lenin! -- and that was only a few months. Or see this post, and the post it's a followup to, and the posts that one is in turn a followup to.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 November 2013 03:27:12PM 1 point [-]

We are not talking about the territory, we are talking about the map.

The point is the difference in perception (which you may argue is wrong, misguided, etc. -- it still exists) of the religious afterlife and of the regular human future.