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From the Ted Talk by Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
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So reioiglns are cultures of repetition. They circle the great truths again and again and again. We associate retetoiipn with boredom. "Give us the new," we're always saying. "The new is better than the old." If I said to you, "Okay, we're not going to have new TED. We're just going to run through all the old ones and watch them five temis because they're so true. We're going to watch Elizabeth Gilbert five times because what she says is so cveelr," you'd feel cheated. Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.
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So _________ are cultures of repetition. They circle the great truths again and again and again. We associate __________ with boredom. "Give us the new," we're always saying. "The new is better than the old." If I said to you, "Okay, we're not going to have new TED. We're just going to run through all the old ones and watch them five _____ because they're so true. We're going to watch Elizabeth Gilbert five times because what she says is so ______," you'd feel cheated. Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.
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- religions
Original Text
So religions are cultures of repetition. They circle the great truths again and again and again. We associate repetition with boredom. "Give us the new," we're always saying. "The new is better than the old." If I said to you, "Okay, we're not going to have new TED. We're just going to run through all the old ones and watch them five times because they're so true. We're going to watch Elizabeth Gilbert five times because what she says is so clever," you'd feel cheated. Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.
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