I need a volunteer

[Jacob(smooth)]

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='The Reality Salesman' pid='578731' dateline='1389196039']

God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Terry Pratchett.

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That is one dubious God. A God that works so mysteriously so as one cannot even distinguish what it does, might as well not be there at all in my opinion. Furthermore, praying to such a God sounds about as reliable as what one should expect from trying the remedies offered by homeopathy. I don't understand how so many people seem to willfully mistake their unreliable intuition that correlates with coincidence with divine intervention or miraculous cures derrived from deluded mineral water. Ironically, if I did I rain dance, and it rained, such individuals would likely have no problem shifting gears to point out the oversight in my attributing such correlation with causation. It's mind boggling.

Um. Yeah. Approximately that effective.

Actually, on purely empirical and statistical grounds, somewhat less so.

Hence my curiosity about how Enrico considers what I would class as religious belief as a type of science. I want to see if there is a way he has figured that some form of scientific investigation can be applied to spirituality with good results. Because if he can, perhaps can apply it to the massive amounts of cognitive dissonance and psychological cramp I'm presently experiencing.