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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Call it fervor, an extreme amount of self-confidence, self-delusion or whatever, but I still find it fascinating. I could never work up that sort of belief in anything. He absolutely believed he was going to be fine and that the laws of physics would be suspended for him. Regardless of the outcome, I have to admit that I sort of envy that kind of belief in something in a wierd sort of way. I don't think I'd ever want to experience it myself, but it certainly is interesting to observe. The snake-handling Pentacostals seem very similar to me.
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I wonder if we'd all still find it fascinating or admire his conviction if religion were taken out of the mix?
What if Franck Kabele were just an ordinary guy who believed he could manipulate fire like Pyro from the X-Men universe? I wonder when he eventually burned himself to death, would we all still applaud his absolute belief?
I don't know. I just think that if this were someone else from any other walk of life who did this for some other silly reason, the responses would be littered with sly sarcasm and more than few Darwin comments (not that it won't happen anyway, but I think you know what I mean.)