Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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f wood. That's just me. They did the same thing during World War One and Two. They did. Yeah I'm not saying it's a bad strategy. I'm just saying it doesn't sound like the winner's strategy. It sounds like in addition that the other side has better weapons. Because I don't think Russia is doing that. Do you think Russia is making a bunch of wooden artillery? They don't need to because they have so…

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ld be unrelated to the effectiveness. You wouldn't need any faith. There's just a mechanical process. You could add faith but it would neither add to or detract from the outcome. Somebody says God works best. I'm going to agree with you because we're all different. So I very much think that for some types of people the God prayer model is exactly the right one. And for other types of people maybe some other model is the one that works best. But I don't think it's universally true.

All right faith is not even close to being mechanical. That's what I said right? You think you're disagreeing with it? No that's what I said. Faith is not mechanical but you would only need the mechanical part to observe benefits. The faith might be additional but like you said they're not the same. Don't think that the mechanical process and faith are related. The faith is extra.

All right well that got everybody thinking didn't it? I think I'll leave you on this. Don't believe anything in the news. And I will talk to you tomorrow.

So I'm going to say goodbye to the folks on the X platform first and then YouTubers I'll see you tomorrow.