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user-inactivated  ·  3358 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did Christianity Create Liberalism? [book review]

No one ever clicks on the things which I praise as the best.





iammyownrushmore  ·  3357 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I always read the #goodlongreads, actually, but I sometimes feel that there's so much to discuss that I don't have a good enough grasp on.

user-inactivated  ·  3357 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The only thing I really know is that I don't know enough to reject ideas out of hand. I'm getting there, but it takes time.

Thanks for reading.

rezzeJ  ·  3358 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just read it. I probably wouldn't have, but I'm making an effort to actually read the articles people post and educate myself, and your comment tipped the scales.

Certainly interesting, if not almost completely over my head. Maybe that's why it wasn't shared much? It's a somewhat difficult read if you have no foregrounding in the subject.

user-inactivated  ·  3357 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for reading!

hubski shares skew toward shorter posts, and LCD headlines that encourage you to already have made up your mind before you read. This is an observation, not a condemnation; it's just how link aggregators tend to work. hubski's better than most. A fun thing is to pick an article at random every day and read it, regardless of headline.

I sent a long pm to mk which he never answered cough about this a few months ago -- the idea being that the users most valuable to follow are not those who share the most but those who share the most posts that no one else shares. If you attached some coefficient to "how likely was I to see this awesome post without x's share" -- some would be super high (for instance I find myself sharing a lot of things tons of other people also share) and some would be miniscule (some people tend to share hidden gems I would've otherwise missed).

Anyway I uh yeah. Lecture's boring today. I could recommend books to read to familiarize yourself with the evolution of liberalism, of legal morality from religious morality, etc, but it's a lot to start from scratch.