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Re:Believing in God can trigger same reward regions of the b... by Fezzik on Saturday August 06, 2022 @09:42PM (#32373140)
Even if true, George Bernard Shaw dispelled the notion that it is important decades ago: ‘The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.’
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Re:Believing in God can trigger same reward regions of the b... by boredemployee on Saturday August 06, 2022 @09:54PM (#32373192)
even though I'm not a believer, I think that the beauty of life is in being able to be happy the way we want and that definitely doesn't concern anyone, as long as other people aren't harmed by it :)
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Re:Believing in God can trigger same reward regions of the b... by Fezzik on Saturday August 06, 2022 @10:28PM (#32373359)
If we’re to move humanity forward, intellectually and emotionally, caring about what is true and what is not is important. Regardless of how appealing and placating the lies and delusions are, the truth is superior.
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Re:Believing in God can trigger same reward regions of the b... by DevMois on Sunday August 07, 2022 @05:51AM (#32375209)
Sounds almost religious to me
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