Interesting Links for 30-08-2021

[andrewducker]

The autistic spectrum is not a line

(tags:autism )

Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding (Or: How to keep them subscribing)

(tags:Adobe psychology OhForFucksSake )

Psychologists Have Uncovered a Troubling Feature of People Who Seem Nice All the Time

(tags:niceness psychology torture )

Train Wheels Are Cones

(tags:trains design )

To China's chagrin, Japan-Taiwan talks could pave the way for closer ties

(tags:Japan China Taiwan )

Everything turns into crabs or weasels

(tags:animals evolution )

Spectrum of theistic probability (I used to be a 6, nowadays I'm Ignostic)

(tags:religion atheism )

Comments

[darkoshi]

I hadn't heard this term before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ietsism

I would say I am somewhere between atheism and that.

[jducoeur]

Oooh, I like that -- it's a fairly good description of me.

I regard the standard Abrahamic definitions of God to be extremely unlikely (so Dawkins would probably call me a 6), but I don't consider myself "atheist" at all. (Indeed, I tend to define atheism as as religion, in that it is a dogmatic, unprovable set of beliefs about the nature of deity.)

But I'm at least moderately spiritual, and leave room for deity where permitted by scientific knowledge -- which is still quite a bit of room, just mostly unrelated to the way it's usually defined by the major religions. I often describe myself as "kinda-sorta-Buddhist" (in that I like a lot of aspects of what I know about Buddhist philosophy, despite having no truck with the organized forms of Buddhism), and sometimes "Minbari" in geekier environments. But "Ietist" isn't a half-bad label for me...