Wonderful chat. A plug for the importance of scientific skepticism, humility and doubt.
A key common element of religious cults (or new religious movements if you prefer) is that, while they may not be correct, they are definitely not unsure! It's sad that mainstream society is not immune from this thinking either.
Indeed, most people find appealing the claims of people being able to identify life's problems and therefore, its solutions. Sales, politics, religion, bitcoin.
Buddha think realized this. A major source of people's (society's) suffering is the clinging to and identifying with, delusions. Salvation = letting go of it all, holding all these ideas, including ideas about who you really are, and the nature of reality, as practical working ideas/hypotheses, rather than objective truths about reality.
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Looking forward to watching more of your videos.
LukeWarmwater / Luke Warmwater
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