RE: Dear Theists
April 16, 2015 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2015 at 7:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think that we could extend that, no..since the bulk of life is not "mentally anything" - so far as we can tell...and it doesn't seem to affect their survival all that much.
Consider the oft brought up phantom lion in the grass. It may be the wind, but If I see a lion where a lion is not, that isn't going to be any sort of detriment. We (human beings) -all- have compromised relationships with reality, some of which are surprisingly effective as survival strategies. Long story short, it;s not all that easy to decide what is or is not detrimental or beneficial before the fact...because this, like the lion in the grass...can change with the blowing of the wind. Any "this is the good stuff and that is the bad stuff" statement is entirely arbitrary in a vacuum.
-I don't, personally, think that religion et al is a mental illness. I think it's a feature, not a bug...but that doesn't make it any less compromised a relationship with realty.
Consider the oft brought up phantom lion in the grass. It may be the wind, but If I see a lion where a lion is not, that isn't going to be any sort of detriment. We (human beings) -all- have compromised relationships with reality, some of which are surprisingly effective as survival strategies. Long story short, it;s not all that easy to decide what is or is not detrimental or beneficial before the fact...because this, like the lion in the grass...can change with the blowing of the wind. Any "this is the good stuff and that is the bad stuff" statement is entirely arbitrary in a vacuum.
-I don't, personally, think that religion et al is a mental illness. I think it's a feature, not a bug...but that doesn't make it any less compromised a relationship with realty.
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