frorum for week of 31 October: error, ignorance, use

I will go with the technologist choice. By being an abstract scientist, the word useless in the statement implies pointless to me. However, it may not really be useless, it helps us to have a better understanding towards the universe and I find these understandings are rather interesting. However being a person like that takes a lot of effort, and the facts are really abstract. Being a spiritual leader, whos says things that people have no reason to believe or disbelive is also pointless to me. I think that many of us will not believe things without any reason behind it. Rather, even the evidence for a certain belief is not justified, we can still believe things based on false reasoning rather than no reason at all. Therefore I think being such a leader will not result in many followers, even if the belief give people a sense purpose and calm. I remember Clifford states that before one believes anything, without realizing the consequeses of the belief, one will ask whether the belief is true at first. In this way, this option is ruled out. The technologist, on the other hand, really helps people to make them have a better life. Mind experiment does amuse people, but we need more fundamental materials before we have this leisure, and there materials are produced by the technologist. In this sense, I think the technologist is not only more reasonable, but also more fundamental than the other two options.