"Why do people have different religions?" I was asked. "It seems like the best one would win, eventually, and we’d all believe the same thing...?"
Well, “Imagine that a group of curious bees land on the outside’s of a church window…. Here, each bee gazes upon the church’s interiors through the different hues of these stained glass panes. To one bee, the church’s interior seems all red. To another it is all yellow; to the third bee it all looks dark and so on... Yet these bees cannot experience the true and same views of the insides of this church directly; the bees can only see it what they are seeing individually...? They can never touch or feel the interior of this church or even get smell it or even interact with it in any way. If these bees could really talk, then they might argue over the true colors of the interior of this church!
Each bee would stick to his/her version of their views, hence, not capable of really understanding that the other bees were looking through different pieces of these stained glass windows of the same church! Nor would they ever understand the purpose of the church, or how it got there or anything about it!
The brain of a bee is not capable of such things. “But, these are curious bees, and when they don’t understand something, they become unsettled and unhappy. In the long run, these bees would have to choose between their permanent curiosities — an uncomfortable mental state of delusions…. These bees don’t like those choices, and they would rather prefer to know the true color of the church’s interior and its purpose, but the bee's brain is not designed for that level of critical understandings. They must choose from what are possible [true] visions to them. Either discomforting or self-deceptions, the bees that choose discomfort will be unpleasant to be around and they will be ostracized! The bees that choose self-deception will band together to reinforce their true visions of a red-based interior or even a yellow-based interior and so on.”
“So the saying, we’re like dumb bees?” You would ask, trying to enlighten the mental phishes…?
“It’s worse… We are just curious!”
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