@nemesis @hidden @Hyolobrika one reason why I label it “irrationality” is that I couldn’t argue those beliefs if I had to. In choosing to believe them, I am trusting my own intuition over the facts and logic I see in front of me right now. Maybe faith is just “unjustified belief” like how knowledge is “justified belief.” Also, for me, the phrase “rational irrationality” has a connection with the game-theoretic concept of precommitting to a downstream action which you would otherwise chicken out of