Science and God
June 12th, 2017 at 2:05:42 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Saw an interesting piece. There are thousands of people in the world that suffer from what psychiatry calls the 'Truman Show Complex'. That was a movie about a guy who is secretly on TV and his life is watched by millions of people. There are people who think this is happening to them, they believe it 100%. It takes years of therapy to convince them they aren't being videoed for the whole world to watch. This in no different than the god complex. People think they're so important, that their lives matter so much, they have invented a god that watches them 24/7 to make sure they're behaving so he can reward them properly. Of course this happens after they die, so it's totally uncheckable. The Truman Show sufferers have the same problem as the god sufferers. They feel small and inadequate without a nanny looking over them and judging them. People will believe anything, it's really quite astounding. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |