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4. I've found the minds of fundamentalists to be like inflatable air mattresses
Thu Dec 31, 2015, 11:53 PM
Dec 2015

Usually, they're really good at some things -- finance, woodworking, even math sometimes. But it seems like those sections of their mind have benefited -- are fully 'inflated', so to speak, as a result of the underdevelopment of another part of their mentality. It's as though a heavy weight is sitting on the corner of their 'mental air mattress' that is capable of seeing how irrational most religious tenets are, and that the other corners are fully inflated because of that.

Maybe taking that weight away -- "rolling away the stone" (snicker) -- would actually be detrimental to their well being. That could be why they fight so hard whenever someone tries. Without the weight of religion, their other functioning 'inflated' portions might go flaccid.



Wow. Metaphorical thought is taxing.

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