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2026-05-07 08:59 UTC

@Tattie@eldritch.cafe I love that. My own atheist phase was very angry (as coming connected with a thorough investigation into Christianity and separating myself from my pastor father), and bleak. I have come to understand personally that an amount of unfounded belief is necessary for a humane society to function, but needs to serve ideas like justice. Thus holding unfounded beliefs is not a defect, but a function of the minds in a social species. And that is prone to abuse, even if not the purpose - like organs in a body can become infected and malfunction.

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@Tattie@eldritch.cafe 2026-05-07 12:30

@thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone this is such a good take, and something I've been grappling with in the past year or so as I embrace witchiness. I know my beliefs in this regard are unfounded, a matter of faith. Almost the point of it all is to sit with uncertainty, to be comfortable with not knowing. Peace necessitates being able to be in relation to others who might have wildly different philosophies, and to do that I think it's necessarily to have at least an inking of the contingent nature of our own belief system.

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@bright_helpings@mspsocial.net 2026-05-10 12:52

@thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone @Tattie@eldritch.cafe Terry Pratchett is my go-to on this. In a conversation about the equivalent of Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, etc., the personification of Death says: As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies. The human (for these purposes) who he's talking to says: So we can believe the big ones? Death says: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

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