Would You Believe…
Monday, November 26th, 2007 : By Hugh Williams
Remember this exchange from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters?
Q: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
A: Ah, if there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.
It’s funny because, obviously, we don’t decide to believe things because of money. We believe things because we have good reasons to think that they are true.
I mean, if I told you I’d give you a million dollars if you would just believe that humans can fly, would that be enough to get you to believe it? You might say you believe it, but what if
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