(September 13, 2013 at 12:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They can't part with their fairy tales so they reject anything which calls them into doubt.
Yes, it's an increasingly sad attempt to shoehorn observed reality into the pages of a storybook. Then they blame reality for being wrong when it won't fit. That or pretend that it actually fits perfectly, while trying desperately to hide the bits that stick out.
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.'
