Posted by wunhuanglo [ 68.222.43.64 ] on January 10, 2004 at 15:54:47:

In Reply to: Re: Audiophile Darwin Awards posted by Wayne on January 10, 2004 at 13:16:54:

My operational theory is that the sort of thing you see in the tweak world is a direct result of promulating belief in the bronze age war gods of the middle east and their variants.

Once you believe in some sort of being in the sky that's affecting your life (or death), you then open up the possibility to believe in anything. And that's in fact perfectly reasonable - if magic can rule in one sphere, why can't it rule in any other? Why can't rational thought be banished when it doesn't fit the evidence in the physical world?

I read a paper relatively recently that postulated a causal relationship between religous belief and mental instability - the constant tension between the rational and the irrational. IMO it's a reasonable thesis.

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