Nassim Taleb - on atheism and inconsistency

[cbone6754]

Investing in the stock market market is a way of making an educated guess and trying to make money from it, it is an educated gamble. religion is the act of taking everything that we have learned about the universe and turning it on its head without proffering any kind of evidence in its stead. im sorry nassim but i do not see the correlation...

[MrNChoudhury]

@cbone6754

I think Nassim is saying the basis upon which you make your guess on the stock market is not that much different to religion. The underlying evidence and theory are absent or insufficient for you to hold a position and claim that it is 100% true in light of the facts as they are observable or understandable by us. He's basically saying we simply don't know so why try to convince yourself otherwise? If you follow it through it is the logical position to take in the face of unknowns.