(November 4, 2012 at 7:15 am)Daniel Wrote: Yes, this is in the science forum, because it's a question of science - not ethics, religion or even philosophy.
How many people actually believe what they claim to believe? It can't be very many people. Let me demonstrate using my own country - Australia.
1. Smoking. Supposedly this is bad for you. Most people SAY they believe this. 48% of Aborigines are smokers, therefore 48% or more of Aborigines don't actually believe it's bad for their health. The smoking rate in Australia has dropped in recent years, it's now about 18% of the adult population. So 18% of Australians don't believe that smoking is bad for their health.
That was just the first point, it gets worse with the second...
2. Overweight. 63% of Australian adults are either overweight or obese. 28% of Australians are obese. Thus, 63% of Aussies don't believe that being overweight is bad for their health, and 28% of Aussies are really confident in that belief! There is absolute proof that they don't it to be bad for them because I know people who "tried to loose weight" and then "gave up" after only loosing "some" weight.
A person cannot say the believe one thing, and do the opposite - that's nonsensical.
The sort of mindless waffle that you'd expect from a religious fuckwit.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
