There should be an extremist cult of people who are certain only that uncertainty is the only certain thing

▲ hungmung 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

What makes you so certain there isn't? A group that has a deep understanding fnord of uncertainty would probably like to work behind the scenes to achieve their goals.

	▲	cwmoore 8 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The Fnords do keep a lower profile.
	▲	dcminter 8 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		One might even call them illuminati? :D

▲ pancakemouse 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My favourite bumper sticker, "Militant Agnostic. I don't know, and neither do you."

	▲	bobson381 8 days ago \| parent [-]
		I heard about this the other day! I think I need one.

▲ rpcope1 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

More people should read Sextus Empiricus as he's basically the O.G. Phyrronist skeptic and goes pretty hard on this very train of thought.

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Telemakhos 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

If I remember my Gellius, it was the Academic Skeptics who claimed that the only certainty was uncertainty; the Pyrrhonists, in opposition, denied that one could be certain about the certainty of uncertainty.

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bobson381 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Cool. Any specific recs or places to start with him?

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rpcope1 8 days ago | parent [-]

Probably the Hackett book, "Sextus Empiricus: Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism"

	▲	bobson381 8 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks!

▲ jazzyjackson 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A Wonderful Phrase by Gandhi

  I do dimly perceive
  that while everything around me is ever-changing,
  ever-dying there is,
  underlying all that change,
  a living power
  that is changeless,
  that holds all together,
  that creates,
  dissolves,
  and recreates

▲ Viliam1234 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You mean like this? https://www.readthesequences.com/Zero-And-One-Are-Not-Probab...

▲ card_zero 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Snatter Goblins?

https://archive.org/details/goblinsoflabyrin0000frou/page/10...

▲ tomjakubowski 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://realworldrisk.com/

▲ tim333 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Socrates was fairly close to that.

	▲	freedomben 8 days ago \| parent [-]
		My thought as well! I can't remember names at the moment, but there were some cults that spun off from Socrates. Unfortunately they also adopted his practice of never writing anything down, so we don't know a whole lot about them

▲ JTbane 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"I have no strong feelings one way or the other." thunderous applause

▲ saltcured 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There would be, except we're all very much on the fence about whether it is the right cult for us.

▲ mapontosevenths 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There already is, they're called "Politicians."

▲ ameliaquining 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Like Robert Anton Wilson if he were way less chill, perhaps.

▲ arwhatever 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

“Oh, that must be exhausting.”