Re: virus: Why people cling to faith

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:54:43 -0800

MemeLab@aol.com wrote:

>>That is an analogy to the christian experience in "meeting Jesus Christ".
>>It's
>>like a whole new world opens up, and you want to tell everyone about it.<<
>
>Yeah, and the bad part about it is that nobody rational will listen to
>testimonial evidence without corroboration - and its gotta be pretty
>excellent corroboration for such astounding hypothesis which I am
>sure you are just dying to talk about.

Or a pretty excellent meme thriving in its environment.

(By symbiosis???)

-Prof. Tim