If I claim I can shoot fire balls out of my hand, most people would say impossible.<p>If I claim a person in the past could shoot fire balls out of their hand, most people would say impossible.<p>If I claim I can walk on water, most people would say impossible.<p>If I claim a person was able to water on water a long time ago, suddenly I can be taken seriously.<p>Why do so many people not see the logical inconsistency here? Why do people not see that believing certain religious thoughts are a delusion?
We don't want religious flamewar here, so please don't post religious flamebait to HN.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>
You deceive yourself every day.<p>You and your “facts” cannot actually account for that which you lack empirical validation.<p>That you’re certain all circumstance are as you conjecture them to be is an irony of your position.<p>Is that the only part of the story that disturbs you? If this one part was stretched (easiest way to early assimilation is fake news) what of all the rest of human account?<p>Resist your false certainty. Take the account of ledgend, history, third hand account, etc on their own terms.<p>You don’t really solve anything with your nihilistic incredulity. You’re not even on to something as far as ironies are concerned.