Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 02:50:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <199711120250.TAA22221@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19971112021408.64619@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Nov 12, 97 02:14:08 am
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> > I get the impression that many of the 'anti-religious' people somehow > > get the mistaken impression that somehow religion is based on childish > > notions, and that any adult with a belief in the scientific process > > can't be expected to have religious beliefs and still be sane. > > "Sane" is a relative term. My guess/feeling is that people with > religious beliefs probably are (on average) more stable and lead > better lives than the ones without them, if all other things are > equal. Yes. People who subscribe to a well defined memetic complex (any belief system is a memetic complex) are much more likely to stay within a standard deviation of their expectation behaviour. People like this make us happy, because they are predictable (as a group) with a high degree of accuracy). As far as comparative value of memetic complexes of similar orders... I'd rather have someone be a member of the gang "Baptists" than that they be a member of the gang "Bloods", in terms of what I view as negative impact on society. 8-). "Better" is a realtive term; certainly, it's better for those of us who have to live in a society composed of herds of people that subscribe to one complex or another. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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