>The 'tribe' of skeptics sit in their 'right' place because they've earned
>it, not because they read it, or had it told to them, or because they
>live amongst those who do, and because every fact is backed up by the
>entire universe, not just recited on a Sunday from a pew.
Is it so important, in this fragle life of ours, that we must be `right'?
(Whatever that might mean.) Now there, *that* meme, <possessed of the
truth=good or happy>, he is the little critter at the very heart of the
inbred human *need* for religion. He is the meme fed by the rituals and
dogma--the great motivator of religions. (And science to boot!) His
voracious hunger drives men to think and do the most unspeakable of things.
But to see him so ravenous within you, Wade...
So sad. Still stuck in the duality, eh, my friend?
Remeber: "Facts are highly overrated."
-Prof. Tim,
who wonders what chemicals are released in the brain when one thinks they
are `right' and can see how this feedback loop of neuro-chemical rewards
could easily grow into an addiction for many.