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Originally Posted by ketzer
Do you think you and/or others should have some basis for what they believe, or is it pretty much anything goes, we can believe whatever we want no matter what science or facts may indicate?
Why is it, and/or how is it, that some people can become so devoted to beliefs that to the rest of us seem so patently ridiculous against the "facts" that we generally seem to agree on? Answers with a psychological bent get extra Karma points on this last one.
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The phenom (which it strikes me is 'visible' in 75 to 95% of folks at least!) is 'explained' (I believe - lol!) by the following articles:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-pigeons-...itious-5746904
https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Pigeon/
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My own 'parable' in this regard: Two guys playing golf when the sky turns cloudy and a lightning bolt strikes one dead. The 'living one' become 'convinced' that
his 'god' loves
him and was (powerfully!) instrumental in preserving
his life. He becomes so 'dependent' on such a thought to help him resolve his own existential anxieties that will aim to eliminate you from his field of vision if you try to convince him otherwise (or 'threaten' his belief-system by yourself thinking otherwise)! Hence also the tendency to persist in thinking that what one believes is 'right' being
stronger in humans than 'dumb' animals. (Pigeons are
relatively 'clever' animals, BTW!)
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