Am 24.01.2014 22:52, schrieb Patrick Elliott:
> 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.

What you're forgetting about is the abundance of people who think there 
might be some supreme something, but don't equate that to the guy from 
the Bible.


> 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.

That's a serious problem with various religions, indeed. But that's 
nothing new.

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