Two years after her body was found by police on the altar of a Pentecostal church in San Jose, California , authorities have still to decide whether her killers will stand trial.
There’s another option, which is that the extreme doomsday beliefs become a self-fulfilling prophecy and no one lives to see it classified as a mental illness outside of the momentary ‘oops’ when things are crashing down all around and no dead bodies come floating down from the sky to stop it.
I think about Popper’s paradox more and more these days.
You know, some day extreme religious belief will be classified as a mental illness. I hope I live to see it.
There’s another option, which is that the extreme doomsday beliefs become a self-fulfilling prophecy and no one lives to see it classified as a mental illness outside of the momentary ‘oops’ when things are crashing down all around and no dead bodies come floating down from the sky to stop it.
I think about Popper’s paradox more and more these days.