Good religion doesn't thrive on lack of knowledge nor is its basis founded on unchanging principles oblivious to reason and evidence. I would welcome interacting with an alien species, if that becomes possible within my lifetime.
I agree that if you see everything as good, pleasent and happy, then you are delonsional. However that doesn't mean there's no room for optimism in this world which is devoid from a lot of skeptics comments I've seen on this site. If you're truly wlooking at an even and realistic view of life you shouldn't assume everything is good or bad, just take things as they are and use them to their most functional. Having an overly skeptical and overly pessimistic (or just plain crabby) nature I haven't found (in my experience) to have a positive relevance to something's usefullness in fact predisposing something's positive or negative natures are both biasing and counterproductive
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I agree that if you see everything as good, pleasent and happy, then you are delonsional. However that doesn't mean there's no room for optimism in this world which is devoid from a lot of skeptics comments I've seen on this site. If you're truly wlooking at an even and realistic view of life you shouldn't assume everything is good or bad, just take things as they are and use them to their most functional. Having an overly skeptical and overly pessimistic (or just plain crabby) nature I haven't found (in my experience) to have a positive relevance to something's usefullness in fact predisposing something's positive or negative natures are both biasing and counterproductive
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"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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