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Message: [QUOTE="IveGot0uts, post: 1351177, member: 45459"] Well first off. HAHAHAHAH WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. So being a good poker player takes much of what bellagio was saying, though I'd hardly say being atheist makes you a rational person. I'm one, I'd like to think both. Love the thread derailment. All religions do not require faith. Buddhism requires only that you not be an ass, basically. Thought there's also no god there, so I guess it depends on where you're drawing your lines. Technically its an atheistic religion for many/most practitioners. And you want quantity of gods forget egypt, check out Hinduism, they win I'm pretty sure. Avoiding a gambling problem I think comes down to personality traits in large part. Some people have a tendency towards addiction, others do not. Addiction can be a learned behavior for those who do not, and can be avoided for those who do, but in large part there is some determinism here. For me there is no rush from the gamble, its just about taking advantage of a statistical advantage and relying on math working. To explain away the development of and similarities in religion we can simply look to what it hopes to accomplish if we view it as a societal construct. It is the attempt of people to explain their surroundings on the one hand, and to control the masses on the other. One could argue that now we have science taking the former position, and rule of law/government the latter. The similarities between systems emerge due to the broad similarities in the challenges the religions were designed to answer. I could probably have said things better but meh, I'm on the exhuasting side of having just watched a sunrise. Sleep time. [/QUOTE]

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