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Yup, it could be a bit of both. We're probably wired to believe some things, *and* memes could take advantage of that.
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Well, yeah. Neither would work on their own.
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I hardly know anyone who believes in God now but so many people who believe in ghosts, mediums, psychics, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience
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human need spiritual sustenance...that was "opium of the masses" meaning.
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They need something. Our best hope is it to make it something other than nonsense.
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san harris have reach this rock on his way, how to explain "been lucky or unlucky" everyone i know uses "God", it scales rational.
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Could you rephrase? I think we have a language barrier there.
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i was talking about explaining the idea of "been lucky" having luck in life...how to do it without the concept of God...
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How do you do it with God? I don't see why God would be indicated. Its not as tho believers in a particular one have more luck.
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you have been "blessed", a lovely family, a cat a dog, a job that you enjoy...God or Nature or Cosmic Justice...religion "try" to explain it
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Yeah, it's both imo. Ideas with traits that let them survive and replicate will do so, but that's separate from what traits cause that.
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