19-XII-2011.

Wrote this as a comment to the conclusion of a series of Kolakowsky's analyses of religious discourse, on Škrba's blog:

I actually admire the believers' courage. To rely in one's life and wider (and this time I mean it literally) on a story like that, which excludes and denies logic, which doesn't even work (but has some millenia worth of excuses why it doesn't, which are part of the story itself by now) but takes their money and even commands them... requires a serious division of their head to the part which thinks and the part which acts contrary to logic and experience. This doesn't much differ to me from walking on thin ice with "no it won't crack".

Let everyone, on their own, believe whatever they want. But when that starts organizing, looking for ways to expand, it becomes politics, attracts the greedy and power hungry and ceases to differ from any other bureaucracy/government/mafia.

That was in the morning. Then we went off to dad's to keep him company for the slava. uncle Staja was already there, arrived the day before, and fried some fish. Of course we walked, so I could have a few drinks.

Meanwhile, on western front, news that Nick will be leaving SFBC. While he never did anything fast enough, and was about mid-competent, I had a feeling we'll make him out of mud. He was the administration where the rest of the house was bureaucracy.

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