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[Anonymous No.14103376]

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/

>religion is a memeplex built around a central delusion, the God meme—an entirely unsubstantiated proposition. Religion exists because this memeplex is adaptive. This explanation is both necessary and sufficient. It is also parsimonious, à la Occam’s razor. It may not be simple, but it’s a heck of a lot simpler than “God.”
>In Darwinian terms, Professor Dawkins’ main point is that the adaptive interests of religion—or of any other memeplex—are not necessarily the same as the adaptive interests of its host. As a celibate priest, for example, you are helping Christianity to be fruitful and multiply. It’s performing no such service for you.
>Biologists have a word for this: parasitism. Probably because he wants to be nice, Professor Dawkins tries not to use the p-word. But he’s clearly thinking it.
>The God delusion is a parasitic meme because, being alien to reason, it does not serve the interests of the host. Furthermore, some of the memeplexes—or “religions”—which include it include far more pernicious memes, such as suicide bombing, which are lethal both to the host and anyone within its blast radius.
I mean, is he wrong?

[Anonymous No.14103415]

>I mean, is he wrong?
m*ldbug is wrong about everything by default

>Furthermore, some of the memeplexes—or “religions”—which include it include far more pernicious memes, such as suicide bombing, which are lethal both to the host and anyone within its blast radius.
Dumb faggot avoids mentioning that the suicide bombers are outbreeding his race, making them evolutionarily superior by definition

[Anonymous No.14103426]

>>14103376
He's not wrong at all, and his extension of the concept to the various names he gives to progressivism was brilliant. Maybe he's not the first person to ever think of that idea but it's perfectly suited to deconvert young people who grew up in a progressive environment.

[Anonymous No.14103541]

>>14103376
I'm not sure what you're trying to ask. Dawkins is in no way refuted by your excerpt, at least.

[Anonymous No.14103733]

>can choose any name in the world as your pseudonym
>choose "mencius moldbug"

[Anonymous No.14103744]

>>14103415
>Suicide bombers are outbreeding his race
No, anon. I'm almost certain that no one who is breeding at all elects to become a suicide bomber. Anyone who adopts the belief "I, personally, should become a suicide bomber" is not benefitting from that belief.

>>14103541
>Dawkins is in no way refuted by your excerpt
Moldbug is explicitly agreeing with Dawkins here. I suspect the point of OP's post is a sort of counterattack against the Christfags and larpers thereof shitting up the board with their dead religion.

[Anonymous No.14103625]

>>14103376
Is that pic him? Holy shit he looks exactly like the way he writes! Holy shit! I can't believe what I'm seeing oh my god!

[Anonymous No.14104358]

>>14103376
oh god that chin and jawline

[Anonymous No.14105046]

>>14103376
>almost 2020's
>reading inane blogspot posts from the 2000's

[Anonymous No.14105535]

>>14103426
Except that they all just want another form of progress.
Real brilliant...

[Anonymous No.14105620]

>>14105046
with twitter, fb, ig, yt, and the rest of social media being crap, blogging will probably make a comeback because of its close roots to old internet.

[Anonymous No.14105629]

>>14105046
this is one of my favorite things to do on the internet

[Anonymous No.14105660]

>>14105620
Twitter has made blogging obsolete. People don't want to read 10 min long articles anymore. No one cares about the old internet except the tech boomers.

[Anonymous No.14106530]

>>14103376
>The God delusion is a parasitic meme because, being alien to reason, it does not serve the interests of the host.
He is explicitly wrong here, wrong in his conclusions, in his reasoning and in his underlying assumptions.

[Anonymous No.14106540]

>>14105660
twitter is for the retarded masses

[Anonymous No.14106625]

Someone needs facial masculinization surgery

[Anonymous No.14106640]

>>14106625
They do these? Now when I think about it, korean facial surgeries tend to produce a surplus of jaw bones.

[Anonymous No.14106715]

>>14106640
Yeah, the first one happened in 2017 iirc, very new

[Anonymous No.14106949]

>>14106715
Looks damn good.