We're a society that likes "either" and "or." We have to boil everything down into simple terms so we can feel we're right and the other person is wrong. Then we apply that philosophy to things we don't understand, hoping to fill in the cracks later. But the great minds never discovered anything through blinders and colored lenses.
The universe is so vast and awe inspiring, and what we understand about it only proves how much more we don't understand. We can no more prove there's life out there somewhere than we can determine whether or not they're more advanced than we are. But we hope there's other beings, like us, somewhere. Isn't that like faith?
We argue about who's right, yet neither can prove it. And all we do is make the divide wider and walls higher. If I find more meaning in my life through faith and you don't, so what? It doesn't mean one's better than the other, or more intelligent. Nor does it give any of us a decent reason to verbally abuse each other. What's REALLY CRAZY isn't a belief or a person, it's how we treat each other over beliefs that can't be proven either way.
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