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Originally Posted by verdi
If those expectations are met, then it'll be all just as though you lived in a world without magic as a non-believer.
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I don't believe this to be true. Replace the word magic with love. Now let's say you believed in love, craved for love, wanted love, expected love in return and then... fell in love. Perhaps you may have experienced something similar to this? Anyway, when you are in love, and that love is believed to be received back, your brain has so many more endorphins, so much more dopamine released that it actually provides a lot of further noticeable physical relief as well.
The level of happiness that is the norm for someone that believes in and believes they receive love is incredibly higher than those that do not. Now once you have been to Disneyland, why on earth would you want to just ride on the swings for the rest of your life?
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Originally Posted by verdi
But then again, some people prefer the bliss of knowledge (totally made that up), or feel that the truth is part of the pathway to happiness (or some **** like that!).
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Indeed, and if history is anything to go by, our current grasps of knowledge, truth, and free-thinking etc. will be laughed at in 1000 years, just like how many current "free-thinkers" laugh at the freest thoughts of the past millenniums. I believe there is ignorance in putting 100% faith behind anything and that includes science. Indeed science to me by definition is agnostic in that it accepts it can be proven wrong in the future, unlike many so-called scientists I have come across.
There is still a relative subjectiveness in objectivity. It's only a wave or a particle depending on the perceiver...