"... we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist." This quote is found in Ayn Rand's Anthem, a book which creates such a dystopia that everything in it seems absurd. But how absurd is it really? How absurd is it that people cannot accept what cannot be proven to them? Look at religion. Entire followings based upon blind faith in an entity that in some people's eyes does not exist. To the believers, there is no doubt their God is their. They can believe without seeing. To the non-believers, they cannot accept the fact that a God can exist unless given tangible proof. I end this entry with a quote from Yann Martel's Life of Pi:
I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, “Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain,” and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.
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