I was thinking about this a lot this past week for some reason, probably because my final project was regarding referential mania, which is really just the creation of imaginary causal links (or a version of paranoid schizophrenia if you're into that lingo). I also was reading some religious articles over the weekend, and it occurred to me that a lot of them used correlation and causation interchangeably. I'm not saying all religion does that, but this particular set of articles was about how if you thank God for something good that happens, good things will keep happening to you. I'm not saying that this is never the case; maybe God really does reward you for thanking him. I don't pretend to know. I just think that a lot of these very well-meaning people mistake correlation for causation. Just because you thanked God and then something good happened doesn't mean your thanking God caused that good thing to happen.
And that's all I have to say about that.
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