Ask A Genius 165 – Silver Lining in Bullshit
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/05/01
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Rick Rosner: Plus, with Scientology, the deal where you get audited. You hold tin cans in some piece of crap technology while somebody asks you questions about your past until you’re okay with what happened in your past, which is a little bit like the talk therapy of psychiatry or other kinds of counselling. Although, Scientology hates psychiatry. It is possible for it to do good for you even though it is basically bullshit.
It is possible for new religions to arise that embrace modernity, morality, and spirituality. I believe IC has at least the teeniest bit of spirituality in its directionality because 20th century science feels cold and random because it is not driven by anything. Nothing is in charge. Randomness is in charge. The random mutations are in charge of organisms. The random breaking of the false vacuum spits out all of the space and time and particles that form the current universe.
I think a more sophisticated viewpoint is that it is not randomness in charge, but information in charge. Information implies persistent in time and order. Time, order, and persistent implies values that are geared towards creation. It is just the tiniest bit spiritual.
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