Most people believe that who they are today is pretty much who they will still be in the future.

 Our minds trick us into thinking our entire history, every choice, every change and chance, has led to this specific moment, 

what we call now.

 

If you talk to God you're religious. 

If God talks to you, you're psychotic

 

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. 

And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. 

If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function

 

Alive, 

any of you alive—let's take a poll—how many of you know you're really alive?! 

 Plastic soldiers in a miniature dirt war! 

C'mon! How many of you people know you're alive?

 How many of you people know you're really alive!