(March 11, 2016 at 1:21 pm)robvalue Wrote: Well, this "other world" is made up. So it may be of practical help as a coping mechanism sure, but it's not real. Theists think it is real, in contradiction with observable facts. And the real one is real too, even though they both can't be.
If you can actually learn things reliably, about anything, you're using some version of science. Otherwise, it's bollocks.
All of literature and poetry .. just a comforting lie?