The Freedom To Think Out Loud On

Imagine A World In Which Generations Of Human Beings Come To Believe That Certain Films Were Made By God Or That Specific Software Was Coded By Him. Imagine A Future In Which Millions Of Our Descendants Murder Each Other Over Rival Interpretations Of Star Wars Or Windows 98. Could Anything -- Anything -- Be More Ridiculous? And Yet, This Would Be No More Ridiculous Than The World We Are Living In.

Each Increment Of Knowledge Imparted In This Way Is So Satisfying-and One's Ignorance At Every Stage So Consequential-that The Process Of Learning Bjj Can Become Remarkably Addictive. I Have Never Experienced Anything Quite Like It.

You Almost Never Get The Pleasure Of Seeing That You Won The Argument In Real Time. People Just Don't Like To Publicly Change Their Minds. They Change Their Minds In Private.

We Rely On Faith Only In The Context Of Claims For Which There Is No Sufficient Sensory Or Logical Evidence.

We Have Christians Against Muslims Against Jews. They're Making Incompatible Claims On Real Estate In The Middle East As Though God Were Some Kind Of Omniscient Real Estate Broker Parsing Out Parcels Of Land To His Chosen Flock. People Are Literally Dying Over Ancient Literature.