Post #4643413 · Elektrine

2026-09-07 23:45 UTC

New (to me) lore from theargumentmag.com/…/god-is-back-on-the-timeline This all kicked off last year when religious Substacker Ethan Muse wrote a heavily sourced essay arguing that the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima — a 1917 incident where large crowds of people reported seeing the sun dance and emit radiant colors — was a genuine miracle, unexplainable by any other method other than divine intervention. This inspired rationalist blogger Scott Alexander to write a more skeptical post titled “The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know,” which led to responses and counter-responses. The discourse continued into 2026 when other bloggers began jumping into the fray and Alexander began investigating similar sun miracles in Buddhism. It seems to have wrapped up with Alexander’s recent pilgrimage to a modern-day holy site where people still claim to see sun miracles to this day. lol pilgramage what. is he converting?

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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-09-08 12:07

Buddism us quite popular amoung the tech crowd from what I always gathered. So no shock there, that or Orthodox Christianity.

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@scruiser@awful.systems 2026-09-09 01:33

Because rationalists distrust mainstream normal science and skepticism, they are far more willing to dabble in the supernatural than normal skeptics.

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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-09-09 06:28

lol pilgramage what. is he converting? The parts I skimmed mostly read like a travelogue so tax write-off vacations with the family in Europe, plus he has an audience of marks that will eat up fucking anything as long as it’s framed as independent research into the parts mainstream academia doesn’t want YOU to know about. Still the cross-section between simulationists/transhumanists and mysticism enthusiasts was already huge before Yud mixed in adult Harry Potter fandom and an implicitly supernatural set of adages about human-to-computer soul transfer and living in the end of days waiting for the Artificial Godhead Intelligence to incarnate and judge humanity.

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