I was going to bitch about the idiotic, religious ending of the otherwise really great movie 'I am Legend' (and the ending is probably a consequence of the fact that it is an adaptation from an older film, but that's really no excuse: if you adapt the setting, the characters and the advertising, why not the shallow ethics?), but instead, I'm simply going to give you a link to a talk by Sam Harris, philosopher and neurologist, called Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World.
And seriously: you believe a certain book is the absolute truth because the book itself says it's the absolute truth?
Smooth...
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Werkelijk verbazingwekkend hoeveel culturen opgebouwd zijn vanuit de redenering: het is zo, omdat het zo is.
Ik ga me alvast oefenen in het feilloos invoeren van zelfconfirmatie. Handig, want je hebt altijd gelijk. Je moet alleen mensen vinden die je willen geloven.
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