I'm so sick of people asking me if I believe in fairies you wouldn't believe.
That I do believe!
I'm sure too that you're right to look for other ways of putting it - respect, get your head round, etc. The English language (I can't speak for others) is rather insistent on a monogamous binary of belief or non-belief, which conjures a vision - itself most implausible - of minds always and entirely self-aware and available for inspection, whereas I think that in matters of credulity many of us are polyamorous. The idea that we are fully aware of what we believe in may be the biggest fiction of all.
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Date: 2013-02-08 12:59 pm (UTC)That I do believe!
I'm sure too that you're right to look for other ways of putting it - respect, get your head round, etc. The English language (I can't speak for others) is rather insistent on a monogamous binary of belief or non-belief, which conjures a vision - itself most implausible - of minds always and entirely self-aware and available for inspection, whereas I think that in matters of credulity many of us are polyamorous. The idea that we are fully aware of what we believe in may be the biggest fiction of all.
Totally with you on the aliens, btw!