Back to episode — Episode 1267 Scott Adams - Trump Presidential Library, Traveling With Restrictions, Fake News
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conferences and she only answered cleverly, oh are you eager to see him is that what you're saying? And the reporter said sure. And then she didn't answer the question. Don't you think it's going to be more and more of a story the longer Biden goes without opening himself up to unfriendly questions? Because the whole point of these presidential press conference things is that it opens you up to un…
← Previous segment →t you can observe that there are people who look otherwise normal who got all the wrong religion. People thinking you're reincarnating, well unless you believe that in which case it would be right. But if other people believed it you don't, that's crazy.
So you have religions in which there are people walking on water and resurrecting. Maybe that's the real one. But you got other ones in which somebody's riding a flying horse to heaven. Maybe that's the real one and maybe the other one's not. Some people believe in reincarnation as I said. Some people believe in heaven. Some people believe there's nothing there. One thing you can say for sure is that regular normal human beings with completely functional brains will believe anything. It's actually just built into our nature. We will believe anything.
But here's the only thing I want to add to that. Because on some level you do that, right? The thing I want to add to that is that the way humans believe is almost like choosing what clothes you're going to wear I think. And you can see it with this person who was talking to Anderson Cooper, the ex-Q believer. The way he spoke of it was almost like a lifestyle choice to adopt a set of beliefs. Because adopting that set of beliefs had some benefits. Maybe it made you part of a group. Maybe it made you interested. Maybe it was intellectually stimulating. But whatever the reason was it was just a choice.
And I would submit to you that people choose their filter or the set of things they believe based on what just feels good. The same way you decide well I'll wear this shirt or this other shirt when you get dressed. How do you make that decision which shirt to put on? You say well I like this one. T
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his is a better shirt today. I feel like this shirt. And that belief is more like that. That we pick the belief that sort of gives us some benefits, makes us feel good, makes us feel connected, whatever. And that we don't actually say are these beliefs based on science or truth? Can I prove it? Am I being gullible? What about those other people? Why do they believe something different? It's nothin…
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