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RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?

August 8, 2021 at 11:03 am

(August 8, 2021 at 4:16 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There's this saying. Tell me about heaven and Ill tell you what's missing in your life.

Its hard to conceive of any rational basis for anything that doesn't choose life. That may not account for much - and it may be a bad choice - but life is most certainly a rational choice.

I don’t understand. How so?

Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken.

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