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Skip wrote: ↑Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:42 am
All humans are. Religion is one fairly popular coping mechanism.

Some people even commit suicide once they realise there is no God because they just cannot handle the truth.

Similarly, some people even commit suicide when they make a more startling realisation that there is no person.

Some people just cannot handle the truth, they even resort to killing the teller of the truth, or if they cannot stomach that, they get someone else to kill the teller.

The human mind is one sick entity, where in it's inability to cope with the truth, it seeks an escape route through death...thinking death is what kills off what is only ever an idea that cannot be proven nor experienced.

Sad but true.

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The operative words there is "some".
Humans are more or less crazy - the scale from more to less being a very long, very shallow one. One reason is that we have intelligence, instinct, emotion and imagination, not necessarily all on the same page at the same time. The other reason is intense sociability and complex language, so that we can very effectively communicate our ideas, fancies, desires and misconceptions to one another, so that we can spread both enlightenment and benightenment to large numbers of our kind very efficiently.
Most of us, most of the time, are neither homicidal nor suicidal: we just want to get on with the pursuit whatever little prize we've got our individual hearts set on, but that can change to feeding frenzy behaviour with the drop of a slogan.

Skip wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 3:11 pm If humanity has a future, it doesn't depend on pseudo-science.
Religion is not evil in and of itself: it's a tool for controlling people.
As long as there are too many people and they're insecure, there will be demagogues to take advantage of their anxiety, to offer an them an alternate reality with which they're more comfortable than facing the real world and their own insignificance.
People cannot be vaccinated against delusion. They either outgrow their childhood fantasies, or they're eaten by the monsters under the bed.
If your basic premise is flawed, whatever elaborate theories you build on it will crumble.

I presume the above is related to my posts.

I did not imply resorting to pseudo-science at all.

I mentioned;

• However there is a need to expedite the process and this is possible in the near future [50-100 years] given the current trend of the exponential expansion of knowledge and technology.

The above exponential expansion of knowledge and technology is based solid upon sound scientific principles and methods.
These will be in the areas of Genomics, the neurosciences, IT, AI and other advance knowledge and technology supervened by Philosophy-proper [rationality, wisdom, ethics, etc.]

Good luck!