If someone says: "that's impossible."

you should understand it as: "According to my very limited
experience and narrow understanding of reality, that's very unlikely."

Diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to Go To Hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip...


It is said that wisdom come with age, but with openness and skepticism, the key principles of the scientific method, we don't need decades of trial and error to sort out which of our convictions may be improbable. The guestion is not whether our beliefs are right or wrong, but whether or not being emotionally attached to them is more or less likely going to benefit us. There is no suck thing as a free choice while being emotionally attached to a belief system. The moment we are self-aware enough to realize this, we can truly work together to fogure out the real odds of what will benefit us the most.