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LINK Michael Shermer: Why people believe weird things | TED Talk

The beginning of causal view of science. The end of intelligent design."

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rainmanjr 8 Oct 7
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I like Shermer. Why people think that 666 (the number of man, or the number of a man) is the number of the Devil is beyond me. Book of Revelation barely made it into the Christian bible. Even so, a Mormon girl once asked me "how do you think it is all going to play out?" Yes, she was talking about "end times." IDK? Jesus told his followers that we were in the end times already.

Because turned around it's 999. That was thought to be man's final year in bondage because Jesus would come back. Satan is the inverse of god so 666. That's my theory, anyway, and I was born soon after so trust me.

@rainmanjr I studied to be a Pentecostal minister and everything is just so much bullshit.
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People believe pseudoscience, false conspiracies and superstition for the same reason they believe the world was created in 6 days, that a virgin gave birth or that Jeebus even existed.

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I love it! 😂

He's fun and informative so he's two things.

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