RE: Pastor once told me we all naturally believe in god
June 7, 2012 at 3:36 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2012 at 3:57 am by Cyberman.)
Haven't read the piece, I'm just going by what's been quoted here, but mightn't those Pirahã just have been taking the piss out of Everett and his belief in unseen spooks? Sort of how we do using the FSM and Ceiling Cat. Perhaps not, really, but I'd like to think that's what was going on.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
