(September 6, 2015 at 11:40 pm)kramazeek Wrote: I've often wonder why people gravitate towards religion and have found that the answer is difficult to find amongst those that do no believe. So let's spitball; what does religion provide that logic day to day existence does not? What did those that existed two thousand years ago get from an unprovable fantasy? The mind or the ego wanted something; what?
Because of the ever lurking dreadful terrifying presence of death DEEEEATH DEAAAATHHHHHH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKnodzWlKUQ
But the question is too easy really, take into consideration mental illness, peer pressure, comfort against the unknown, how much a good tool religion is for government, leaders and conmen, superstition, OCD..... there's a big list.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
