Atheists believe in themselves?

[Mystic]

You haven't proven a story is nothing more. If every movie was nothing more then a movie, why are they praised differently?

Can movies and books affect us emotionally? Yes.

Does that mean the movies and books are more than fictional? No.

It does mean they are more than fictional if they affect us emotionally.

Movies and books are supposed to contain that to which the audience can relate.

Good, how do they relate to it?

Just because a movie or book mentions a blue curtain which can also be found in reality does not mean that the entire movie or book is based on reality. Reality is dependent upon more than a simple element.

I'm not saying a story is totally based on reality. I'm saying it has meaning to us and the essentially meaning to us, is pivotal to our perception of praise.

The stories we read in school, you think they are all random? They aren't mean to give us perspective? Make us think?

When we project an image of a villain in a story, do you think all of us are projecting the same image? I know it's relative, what I am saying, is stories are making us project things in our psyche.

You think people just told stories of gods/prophets/spirits, etc, for the heck of it?

Everyone has perspective. When we see perspective, we take a leap of faith when we either reject it or accept it.

The tone, the style, the music, etc, all this plays on our emotions.

Reality is while you think religious people are basing everything on delusion, there is a similar impact of whatever culture one choses or what makes of what story/movie/poem.

Remember when Minimalist said my poem belongs into the trash bin? I am realizing it has a deep reminder to me now, but I am just realizing it now.

I plunged in a deep ocean and I have to come out rational and strong when I make it to the surface. I am drowning. I don't know how deep I am lost in, but I know there is a way out where there is a will.