RE: Why you all need others, to believe?
December 26, 2019 at 2:05 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2019 at 2:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We spread our religions precisely because we want to believe things that are true. We ping almost all of our beliefs off of other people - it's one of the main ways that we attempt to certify their accuracy. The flaw in this method is obvious...but it works out true enough, enough of the time, to be a useful heuristic. Ultimately, so much of religion isn't even concerned with what is, but what we think should be - an incredibly fertile field for this sort of communal reality-making.
In this context, even the mutual observation that things are not as we declare them to be is not and cannot be a counterfactual point of data - merely an undesirable state of affairs to be changed.
In this context, even the mutual observation that things are not as we declare them to be is not and cannot be a counterfactual point of data - merely an undesirable state of affairs to be changed.
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