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

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.

The Fnords do keep a lower profile.

One might even call them illuminati? :D

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

I heard about this the other day! I think I need one.

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.

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.

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

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

Thanks!

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

The Snatter Goblins?

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

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

https://realworldrisk.com/

Socrates was fairly close to that.

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

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

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

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

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

“Oh, that must be exhausting.”

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