of all the religions I've heard about, Buddhism and Judaism seem the most likely for me to convert to.

like, I was raised Catholic, but I reckon Jesus was nothing but a rad dude with some good ideas. I rebelled hard against religion generally, and jumped into scientistic atheism. I thought I'd stay that way forever. Why would I need a religion if I think it's stupid to believe in a god? But after sitting in that belief for a few years, I realised that, while science does answer a lot of concrete questions, all the important questions are in the realm of the chaos of human interaction and the web of life on earth, and it seems like hard science doesn't do much of a good job of answering any of those questions. how to be a good friend. how to live a satisfying life. how to avoid causing suffering. how to be a good member of your communities. how to achieve justice. even just, how to actually get humanity to stop killing the fucking planet. I think spiritual reasoning is closer to answering those questions than science is. I don't think I'm ever going to start believing in a god again, but I do think that scientism can delude us into ignoring the wisdom in spiritual beliefs (see: my posts about rituals and magical thinking), and make us arrogant that we understand things truly just because we understand them in isolation.

I don't expect Judaism or Buddhism to have a solid answer either, but I'm getting the feeling like they've at least got a ton of accumulated and refined wisdom for these hard questions, and it would be foolish for me to ignore them on the basis that "they aren't founded in science Western scientific tradition".

why those two specifically? I don't know, but I have a few guesses. for one, I think it's telling when a religion gets widespread despite not having an evangelical imperative like Christianity does. and in the case of Judaism, that (if I understood correctly) it doesn't lean on the promise of some better life after this one as its motivation to do good, but just on seeking to leave a good legacy. all in all, I think that both seem (at a surface level) to speak to goals I can relate to, and I want to see just how deeply I relate, and if they really do provide the means to those goals.

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whenever you leave a subreddit, there should be a "reason" field where you can specify why you left. the subreddit moderators should be forced to read and respond to every single one of those*. more than 100 without a response == subreddit becomes read-only and all moderators are removed

*enforcing this in a way that prevents automation is left as an exercise for the reader