Yes, resist capitalism and switch your brain off and become a hippy Christian because self delusion is so much better than consumerism. whatever, total downvote if I could.

QM - yeah, atheists dig their own graves.
How?


The audacity to call a religion self delusion.


Most people have a religion, be it christianity, a kind of cosmic idea of evolution (which in my idea is ten times worse than christianity) or a kind of panhumanist 'look at us', we are Man.
At least some of the christianw KNOW what they believe in.


http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/universalism-postwar-progressivism-as.html

So is ignorance and self-delusion. But that shouldn't stop people from trying to rid themselves of all three.

So scientific truth doesn't make people warm and fuzzy inside, so they make up shit that does. I personally don't really have any sympathy for that kind of willful self-delusion anymore.

"Sure, some people would rather suffer from pain than "be lied to". But also, I'm sure many people are happy in their ignorance by being able to take advantage of the healing power of the placebo effect."

lol. are you serious? Count me as one of those people who'd rather not be lied to then. Thanks, but I'd rather suffer with some pain and live in reality than persist in a perpetually boggling world of incomprehensible self delusion merely for the sake of possibly duping myself into a few placebo induced headache remedies. Hint: no one ever tricked themselves out of terminal glioblastoma.

Don't get me started on molecular phylogeny !!

Molecular inferences about whale ancestry conflict with morphological inferences; molecular phylogenies of animal phyla conflict with each other. Inconsistencies in molecular phylogenies have convinced many biologists to jettison the idea of common ancestor entirely.

The problem with molecular phylogeny is it ASSUMES the common ancestry it claims to prove. The entire field is circular.

Descent with modification has to be imposed on the molecules as the starting assumption. It's no better than reading chicken entrails, really.

Meaningless self-delusion.

lol. people are dumb. downvote for sad, sad self delusion. you can see the milk running down the chin of most of the statues.

What I oft wonder about these types of films is... did they know they were making crap? Was it a concious decision or was there some amount of self delusion involved?