On 1/23/2014 2:23 PM, clipka wrote:
> But that's exactly the point: How confident someone is about the
> existence of a supreme something /is/ painted with personal desire,
> fears, subjective observation, and all sorts of other things.
>
Well, I think my point is, there isn't going to be a lot of people 
managing to dither themselves into a perfect state of, "I think the odds 
are 50:50." Not unless they are doing it as a hypothetical, for some 
silly assed equation. They are going to be on one end or the other, and 
the gap between, if they ever do reach it, isn't one they will be on for 
very long. Its kind of like a rickety rope bridge, or a narrow beam. 
Sane people are not going to stay on it longer than necessary, before 
either deciding that its not worth it to cross, or getting to the other 
side as fast as feasible.

Part of the problem, imho, for the believer side of the mess though is 
that there is some damn idiot with fog machine, on their side, making it 
impossible to see "if" there is something on the other side worth 
getting to, and his partner is describing all the horrible monsters they 
will find when they get there.

-- 
Commander Vimes: "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any 
different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."

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