I don't mind that our brains are really good at picking up on patterns; that is responsible for a vast amount of our more ingenious accomplishments. But yeah, it also needs to be balanced with the more sober logical bean-counter brain.

What damns us is when we reject the true for the comfortable.
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I've never understood the fetishization of 'faith' as a good thing (when applied to big things we don't have answers to)

I leave the door open to speculative things ~ gods, aliens etc ~ but until they show up, I'm focussing on the entities already sitting in my living room that HAVE materialized
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You need to remember that the guy telling you to believe BECAUSE there is no evidence is also the guy telling you to give him 10% of your income.
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