RE: My Wife's Christian Co-worker
February 9, 2014 at 10:47 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2014 at 11:05 pm by bennyboy.)
Religious people may be happier. I mean, if you really believe you have an invisible, all-powerful companion, that has to be good for morale.
I prefer Puppyhova, myself, as Puppyhova is all-cute as well as all-powerful. He doesn't command the chopping off of people's wiener-tips, and he doesn't turn billions of people against each other in bloody warfare. He does, however, have a tendency to pee on cities once in a while when he doesn't get enough attention-- but whatcha gonna do? Also, I find it much easier to let Pupphyova into my heart than an old-man God who watches me masturbate in the shower. That's creepy.
As for the brain part-- I'm sure there probably ARE parts of the brain that respond specifically to superstition and unfounded belief, favoring irrational emotion and hunches over evidence. My dog is convinced, undoubtedly due to the way HIS brain parts function, that vacuum cleaners are evil, and that his pooh tastes delicious. I would not seriously entertain adopting either of those beliefs into my own world view, however, no matter how convinced my dog is-- nor how brightly his brain parts would light up in an fMRI scan.
I prefer Puppyhova, myself, as Puppyhova is all-cute as well as all-powerful. He doesn't command the chopping off of people's wiener-tips, and he doesn't turn billions of people against each other in bloody warfare. He does, however, have a tendency to pee on cities once in a while when he doesn't get enough attention-- but whatcha gonna do? Also, I find it much easier to let Pupphyova into my heart than an old-man God who watches me masturbate in the shower. That's creepy.
As for the brain part-- I'm sure there probably ARE parts of the brain that respond specifically to superstition and unfounded belief, favoring irrational emotion and hunches over evidence. My dog is convinced, undoubtedly due to the way HIS brain parts function, that vacuum cleaners are evil, and that his pooh tastes delicious. I would not seriously entertain adopting either of those beliefs into my own world view, however, no matter how convinced my dog is-- nor how brightly his brain parts would light up in an fMRI scan.