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I'm sure prayer seemed very real to them. That they didn't understand the power of the placebo is hardly surprising...
...With a little luck, we'll be done with this superstitious nonsense in a few more hundred years.
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Understanding the placebo and feeling its effects are two very different things, with what are we to replace the comfort of religion?
More television? Faster food? Greater consumption?
For all our superior knowledge of the world, what have we done with it?
Even if there's only the slightest chance of injecting the tinyest morsel of wisdom and restraint back into the world. I'd gladly trade a little superstitious nonsense for your celebrity magazines, your reality TV or your consumerisation of the planet.