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CellBioGuy comments on Open Thread April 16 - April 22, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 20 April 2014 06:22:08AM *  11 points [-]

Speaking from experience: don't kneejerk too hard. It's all too easy to react against everything at all implicitly associated with a religion or philosophy that you now reject the truth-claims of and distort parts of your personality or day to day life or emotions or symbolic thought that have nothing to do with what you have rejected.

Comment author: ErinFlight 23 April 2014 03:22:53AM 1 point [-]

Thank you. Last week was full of "Is this religious? Yes? No? I can't tell!." My brain has thankfully returned to normal function, and I will avoid intently analyzing every thought for religious connotations. The lack of guilt is nice, and I don't want to bring it back by stressing about the opposite.