RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
September 12, 2015 at 4:26 pm
(September 12, 2015 at 3:41 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(September 12, 2015 at 3:16 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: That sounds to me like letting satan into our heart is not a problem at all. Whatever the ultimate fate of the universe, we will all be long dead anyway, so it does not matter for our lives whether the universe crunches and does not expand again, or not.
One would think such people would put a greater effort into making the threat of some importance to one's existence instead of such irrelevant twaddle.
It's mutation and Natural Selection in action, in this case with an ideological meme:
Some mutations reproduce better. In this case, the meme got a defective characteristic in that its level of emotional threat isn't high enough, because the end-result threat is too far down the timeline.
It's not as likely to reproduce. Poor little religious meme.
It is not merely too far down the timeline; it is that the threat is totally irrelevant to one's existence. How the universe ends has nothing whatever to do with what happens to you.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.