[extropy-chat] Faculty X

[Samantha Atkins]

Yep.  The notion that atheists are missing some faculty is pretty lame. 
  Personally I am by nature contemplative and mystical AND logical and 
rational.  I deeply appreciate things on the religious side.  I have 
had to learn to consciously chose my stance from all these aspects.  I 
possess more of "faculty x" than many who are active adherents of some 
religion or other.

- s

On Mar 3, 2005, at 10:48 PM, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:

> So what about a spiritual atheist like me?
> G.
>
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:09:50 +0000, Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> 
> wrote:
>> Imagine a group of people who lack a certain innate quality of the
>> psyche, faculty X.
>> Their lives are both made easier in some circumstances, and more
>> difficult in others because they cannot understand in any depth what 
>> it
>> is they lack. They know the words for it, what effects are manifest in
>> other people, and tend to consider those who possess faculty X
>> themselves be irrational and enslaved by it. They have learned to work
>> around such foibles in others and even exploit them for their own
>> benefit. They feel themselves to be a superior kind of person because
>> they lack this obviously useless baggage.
>>
>> When X =  conscience we call these people psychopaths
>> When X = spirituality we call these people atheists
>>
>> --
>> Dirk
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