I have thought for a while
that the people who need demonstrably insufficient evidence to believe an assertion should be classed as having a mental disorder.
This would of course mark most religious people as being a bit mental.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 30 Apr 2020, 9:25,
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Religion is just a memetic disorder.
It's literally passed on via memes.
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That is a scary epistemological/psychological rabbit hole.
At some level we are forced to believe many things simply because we cannot test everything, nor verify exhaustively.
That gets complicated by research showing people make unconscious decisions before awareness of the decision, while maintaining that they made a conscious decision. Who is deciding this, and what constitutes the self that is, or isn't believing.
If an irrational belief has demonstrably useful effects, is it therefore rational to believe?
Questions that lead me to drink. Of course that's my belief in the construct of self...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gMfCTBkMgKY
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 30 Apr 2020, 17:55,
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