Something I realized a few years ago, which has given me a much better perspective not just on the sorts of arguments that take place in forums like this, but on the human condition in general:

Your average human today lives in an incredibly complex universe, from the invisibly tiny to the inconcievably vast. We swim in an ocean of thoughts and ideas, many of which are taken as unquestionable facts, which have no basis at all in our everyday lives, and which we will never directly experience.

Im sure that wasnt always the case. At the dawn of humanity, we must have been very much like all the other animals on earth. For all other animals, the entire universe consists only of what they directly experience at any given moment, nothing more. Not humans though, not anymore. At some point, we left the concrete universe behind and took up permanent residence in a completely arbitrary, ever changing imaginary universe that exists solely in our minds.

Check in with humanity every thousand years or so and you'll find theyre living in a different universe every time. Like lunatics in an asylum, we argue, sometimes violently, about who's mental illusions are the The Truth, and who's are the ravings of infidels or crackpots.

Regardless of whether we follow the blokes with slide rules, in white labcoats, or the ones with funny hats who burn incense, we humans believe almost everything, and know hardly anything at all.

I guess that sums it up, I'll stop typing now.