Total Fucking Fuck You Rant: Please Ignore

[Vincenzo Vinny G.]

It's anecdotal, but I have a feeling there is a higher rate of mental illness in the atheist community than other communities.

Do you have any sources or links to support that opinion at all?

Or is that simply a feeling you have?

A FEELIN



WOO OOH

I discussed some of it in a previous post. Like one post above yours. Read bro.

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It's not just openness. Although that's certainly a factor.

It's that human beings work best when they feel an innate purpose, a drive that they can latch onto even through the difficult times.

It's said in the behavioral sciences and marketing that the consumer can actually become stressed out if provided too many choices or too much freedom. Removing freedom is often more helpful to cognitive thought than taking it away.

And to make a choice as to what your purpose in life is, now that you've decided you don't really have one, and that "God hasn't give you one" is profoundly difficult.

So that's why you believe is it? It's healthier to believe in a lie, than work through difficulties. Its less stressful to lay in bed, but if you don't exercise, soon that is all you will be able to do.

It's about optimal functionality.

A soldier performs better if he thinks he's fighting for a moral cause. An athlete performs better if he feels like he can tear up the opposition. Your sense of confidence goes thru the roof if you believe chicks dig that awful haircut you're sporting.

Truth and lies are valid and important factors. But if you put that aside, you will always find this relationship between a positive delusion and better performance/health.

It's one of the weird paradoxes of human nature.