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Why do otherwise bright people beleive stupid things?

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fulizer:

--- Quote from: abyaly ---- Therefore the sun will rise on saturday.
--- End quote ---
aoparently not in some places on this places a night can last weeks

MysticalDumpling:
Apparently, this is about religion. Being a Roman Catholic, I would like to make a few points:

1- I am "religious" because 89% of the population has the same religion as me
2- I do not believe in 90% of what the Bible says
3- We do not place anything in our religion above science (mostly)

Also, religion brings some comfort. Who cares if it is wrong? It creates a sense of community, nationalism, is an excellent instrument to teach morals; it seems to work better than saying this is good, that is bad, ect. It also creates a far superior mode of dispensing aid to the poor- if communism taught us anything: the less the government interferes (not less gov't, period), the better off the majority is. Socialist concepts in my country has proved that communism does make equality- everyone is poor, everyone is starving, and everyone is treated like sh*t, instead of some poor people, a lot of ok people, and a sprinkling of rich people. Trust me- I lived through communism. I lost members of my family to it.

Edit- flipped number

Peter:
What country is that?

MysticalDumpling:
Poland

spike43884:
I personally do not believe in any religion, but let me put forward a notion of neutrality to you. A belief cannot be solidly proven, nor can it be disproven solidly, hence why it is called a belief, because people simply believe in it, but do not know it. Theorys and science and religion are much the same thing, a solution to a given problem in the known universe, their creators solidly believe (in most cases) their findings, and have evidence which to them seems legitimate. Sometimes they are truely proven, sometimes not proven. the THEORY of EVOLUTION is not proven yet, its a belief, a widely believed belief but no more true than god creating the universe and all planets revolving around us.
in 2000 years time, we may have all been completely wrong...Vikings discovered (actually a good while before columbus) America, they believed it had 2 great wide (like sea-width wide) gaps in it splitting it into north, central and south, then south america was connected via land to the bottom of Africa. That might sound like a ridiculous notation today, and one of the most silly beliefs ever, but back then it was groundbreaking science.

The only truely accurate thing in all of the world is one notation put forward by many poets (and one of the few things poetry got right)..."Reality is in the eye of the beholder"

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