re: Do you think God controls the weather?

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anterior insular cortex, you don't believe people benefit from hope?

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Well, some people do. Some people are highly resilient, some people aren't. Even that boils down to neurophysiology, though.

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That to mourn and grieve in a pit of hopeless despair is more palatable than to mourn and grieve with a sense of hope?

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Well, this is quite the dramatic scenario you set up. I have hope in different things, though. I have hope in love, family, friends, good people, technological progress, etc. That doesn't leave me in a hopeless pit of despair. Maybe it is harder to get over something for some people when they don't have religion to fall back on. That doesn't validate the religion, though. Further, I haven't ruled out the idea of "god". Just the idea that we know anything about said "god" or that god intervenes in our lives.