Saturday, January 20, 2024

Multiple Personality Disorder

What happened to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Did Dr. Jekyll end up in heaven and Mr. Hyde in hell?

Reality sucks.

You don't have to read much history to understand where we are coming from. Endless wars, torture, exploitation and abuse of other people, animals and nature, slavery, starvation, cancer, and death... No wonder we have invented beliefs to comfort us. There must be a reason for all this horrendous suffering and pain.

Richard Dawkins has shown that all religious beliefs are delusions. He wants us to face the facts.

However, people who are suffering don't care about facts. They don't want to hear that their suffering is meaningless. Religious beliefs are helpful. They can make us survive. The problem is when the beliefs are unhelpful and cause more harm than good. This happens when the lucky elites are appropriating them to be used for their evil purposes: God wants you to go to war, God wants you to be a slave, and you'll get pie in the sky when you dieif you do as you are told.

Superstitions can be helpful. To hell with reality, facts, and the truth.