Re: Sklansky\'s Handicap
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Religion is one subject in particular that really starts to scare me when I consider its truth. I don't think it's all about the fire and brimstone either - it happens with Buddhism, Taoism, all that stuff. It makes me feel like I'm sinking in the ocean. I think it's just the dissonance that stems from questioning hard assumptions that I have.
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It's also to do with the fact that you'd be ignorant of something extraordinarily important if you were in fact wrong. I've been trying to do this recently with religion, and 'sinking in an ocean' is the perfect description - I think this is because it'd be so overwhelmingly meaningful if you were to accept it without reservation.
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