Nice to see O'Bama working on getting rid of midnight Bush rules

[kandrathe]

Entertain them to what end?

I find there is little point in trying to assert that any one of them is the only correct answer. I really don't know the right answer, I might speculate but couldn't prove it so, and it hardly matters to my daily existence.

Almost everyone is seeking to understand their own importance, and their role in the bigger scheme of things. I've said this before, but if the well worn grooves of our cultures help people to be happy in a knowledge, which may or may not be true, so be it. It is another form of societal glue. For example, there are some people I know that are atheists, or agnostics, but they don't mind if people "pray" for them and their problems. It certainly doesn't hurt, and at least it is a way that one human being shows another that they are concerned enough to take a moment once in a while to think about someone else's problems.

Most of the worlds modernized religions teach people to live peaceably with one another, and to care about one another. At least that is generally the case, until some bright bulb decides to form a sect that redefines some ancient text and uses them to justify a holy war or something.

Another way to put it is that I'm unwilling to pick a fight on existential truthiness with people (esp. one that cannot be proven one way or another), in exchange for peacefulness.