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Utopia (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Sacred Is an Attitude and It's Okay for God to Construct Your World

Kids are very sensitive to the possibility that they're living in a constructed reality and the reality constructed by their parents. One of the principles of the sacred is this idea that You don't choose or control or construct the sacred It is outside of your control and you are accommodating to it and it more constructs you. If our highest ideals are achieved by struggle as long as we don't construct the struggles And they are constructed by this outside sacred force that is inscrutable to us But if we are choosing it and constructing it then we have Made that profane and it's no longer the sacred struggles.

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