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Have you ever had those. . DEEP questions. Like, which came first the chicken or the egg? what is the meaning of life?

If so, what are they? Just wondering.

This question, well more of a statement, was brought up in a book I read.

Lets say, that since the MOMENT you were born, everyone lied to you. Your mother, your father, your best friend in kindergarden. EVERYONE. They all lied about everything they said. If that happened, wouldn't the lie of your life become the reality of your life?

Yeah, think on that one.

Nice one.

That kinda of reminded me of the Jim Carey movie...The Trumam Show or something like that.

Wow. That is deep. o.o;

Something else I find difficult is fitting my head around the concept of the question: "Is there life elsewhere?"
I mean, when you think about it, IF all of the theories were true and if you start to think about just how colossal the universe is--and the fact that there may be an infinite number of them--you might go crazy.

Well, at least it does that to me... sweatdrop

I have a bunch of more questions like these that just refuse to come to mind at this moment. ._.;

Someone once told me a long time ago that the human brain can't comprehend or fully understand huge numbers, which is why you rarely see numbers in the trillions. However, if a person does see something like that, they can't comprehend just how large a number that really is. Going on the theme of just how colossal the universe is, the same goes for numbers larger than the billions. People would go nuts trying to understand just how large a number a trillion is, why people don't fully understand that a lightyear is really long effing ways away, etc.

Of course, that could just be a load of crock. sweatdrop But it makes sense, in a way ...

Depends whether or not the lies were contradictory and whether or not you lie to yourself.

Although, the first thing that comes to my mind is religion, children are spoonfed religion as fact, children from birth upto about 5-6 are programmed to believe things without question, when religion is engrained into their minds at such a young age as pure fact, which is not only morally wrong but also somewhat sick and inhumane, what impact would that have on their progressive understanding of reality?

Images of fire and torture for all eternity at such a young age if you do something wrong can be psychologically scarring. If children are brought up by parents who teach them to believe 100% in a god in the sky that loves them, then how will they feel when either they give in to reason and realise that is obviously a load of bullshit, and their faith is shattered, or even worse, what will happen if they actually go on to take these stories as fact far into their adolescence and beyond? There is nothing worse than a grown adult believing absolutely blindly in a pixie in the sky, who condemns everyone who doesn't believe in his certain brand of skygod to eternal damnation and who incecently bombards the reasonable members of society with their monotonic ancient fairy tales designed to control, manipulate and seperate.

Religion causes and actively breeds ignorance and incredibly abrasive confrontation, isolation and conflict.

oops, I ranted ._.

How do you prove that the green I see is the same green you see?