• Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    People won’t listen to “if you walk under a ladder you might get hit by a paint bucket” but they will listen to “if you walk under a ladder some nondescript aethereal force will give you bad luck”. What is wrong with our brains.

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      It’s pretty much the same as “Don’t do that, it’s wrong.” vs “Don’t do that, God doesn’t like it.”

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      2 months ago

      That is from times where a majority of people were trained to believe in an a nondescript invisible being. It does things to your brain.