How do you deal with irrationality?
rg123: One very positive thing about the Internet is that, even if your outlook is not common in your physical community or society in general, you can find virtual communities where you do fit in.  This can definitely help avoid that alienated feeling.One way I can relate to what you're saying is that I am not religious, yet most people I encounter offline, including pretty much all of my family and most of my friends, are.  It's nice to find that it's not at all difficult to find people online who share my views on religion.Yet, I still do have good relationships with friends and family despite differences on religion and other subjects - and I think the key to this is focusing on the common ground we can share and enjoy together instead of on the differences.  After all, we're all human beings with different emotional biases and flaws, even those of us who consider ourselves among the more rational.  And love and enjoyment of art and music and nature and sex and humor, etc. - all of that is emotional rather than rational.  So for all the problems we get from irrationality, we also get the positives.All the crap out there in the world can be dismaying, but eventually, you know, the sun will burn out and this world will be dead, and even if the human race manages to migrate elsewhere, at some distant time beyond the death of this solar system, the universe will collapse back in on itself (or whatever), so keep things in perspective.  Improve what you can improve in life, and enjoy what you can enjoy, and don't get overwhelmed by the lack of perfection in the world, because everything is ultimately temporary.