Some thoughts
Going back to my atheist stance. I find it interesting that most people believe religious intolerance is a rarity to be endured and fought issue to issue. Why is it so hard to consider religious intolerance is much more prolific and the consequence of untested truths given to people at an age when truth is so difficult to detect? Perhaps I am wrong
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You say it is within the realm of possibility that tomorrow won't be here, an even more accurate and much more probable event is one of us won't be here, yet we live our lives as if tomorrow will come because it is more likely than not. If someone suddenly started acting like they were going to die tomorrow you would think they were probably a little nutty, suicidal... or dumb.
Nothing is outside the realm of possibility but we all base our lives and actions on certain probabilities. You get in your car every day and turn the key and your engine starts. You and everyone else base your entire life on the probabilities set forth by scientific theories.
If you came across a flat earther would you admire their belief in magic? If someone freaked out cause they broke a mirror and all the bad luck that came with it would you agree with them or tell them they were being superstitious. Nikki I've heard you talk about people who claim to have come across new truths while on drugs.
We've both had long conversations about a person with some truly whacked out beliefs as if they were dumb. Is the truth of a belief to be measured by the number of people who think it is true and how long they believe it, because if thats the case nothing new could ever be learned.
Finally I leave you with this, "Isn't it enough to see the garden is beautiful without having to believe there are faeries at the bottom of it too?"
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