Something to think about for those tearing up Snowden

[JDPriestly]

64. Fascinating. So what about people who love and try to

seek out ambiguity?

I notice that there are people in religions and cults and spiritual movements who will make the simple practice, say, of yoga, into a rigid belief system while there are others who dabble and cross from one "belief" to another believing all of them at once. That fascinates me because people with these very different belief structures often belong to the same groups or "believe" the same things. Some of us seem to have the tendency to believe things that other people find to be contradictory. I wish someone would do a study on this phenomenon.

That is, I find the person who is a fundamentalist Christian except that he or she believes in evolution or the person who drives a huge gas-guzzling SUV but talks about climate change and global warming at the same time to be very interesting. What is it that causes us to think or believe in illogical, incompatible constructs? We probably all have some areas in which we believe contradictory "facts."

I'm talking about the "he loves me; he loves me not" paradigm.