Letters to the Editor
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A self-esteem cult
"...It's all selected, but it's still very frustrating for those few of us who see through all that."
And with those words, had_enough, you again confirm my theory that this dogmatic materialism/skepticism/nihilism is, above all else, a self-esteem movement. This is the school of thought:
"I don't buy into any of this God business, and since God is crap, everything supernatural or paranormal must also be crap. How superior I am to all the rest of you poor deluded slugs! Not only am I able to see through the illusions of religion, but I am clear-headed and courageous enough to confront the fact that our existence is meaningless and that we are chemical/neurological automatons without free will, built only to spread our genes. How evolved I and the few like me are! I pity the rest of you."
I'm not a believer, but I'm also convinced enough by evidence of the paranormal (which is not paranormal at all but a barely-understood aspect of our reality) to see that there is much we don't understand. Human arrogance compels us to think we have the answers. True wisdom lies in knowing we do not.