RE: What is needed to combat the overwhelming level of belief in God?
December 11, 2015 at 7:33 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2015 at 7:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You might be talking about religion going bye bye..the OP (and I) have been talking about god-belief. You know there are pretty solid reasons that human beings are religious too. I like my mind as much as the next guy, but I think you may be putting too much stock in your dinner locating equipment...you think it's a truth machine. That it's going to "get better" and this means a decrease in religiosity.
Strange, it's been "getting better" for some millions of years and that's led to an -increase- in religiosity. Ostensibly, from zero before modernity to full on global ....billions of people..... believing crazy shit today. You might have to come to terms with the notion that all of the things that make our mind so effective at what you like about it are the -same- things that lead us to god-belief. Getting "better" at them may simply make us even more effective at god-belief...and yes even religiosity. My high functioning mind, that knows there is no such thing as a goblin..is the very thing that makes me nervous in the dark..as though there were goblins in it. I can project that out into the aether, as it were.
If my mind were better at projecting, and all the things required for doing that.....especially when it came to higher level notions like presence, entity, intent....I'd be "smart" as shit, but also..likely, convinced of the goblins that I created as a consequence of a mind capable of creating better quality projections which can -already- give me the heebs at their current, mickey mouse levels.
Strange, it's been "getting better" for some millions of years and that's led to an -increase- in religiosity. Ostensibly, from zero before modernity to full on global ....billions of people..... believing crazy shit today. You might have to come to terms with the notion that all of the things that make our mind so effective at what you like about it are the -same- things that lead us to god-belief. Getting "better" at them may simply make us even more effective at god-belief...and yes even religiosity. My high functioning mind, that knows there is no such thing as a goblin..is the very thing that makes me nervous in the dark..as though there were goblins in it. I can project that out into the aether, as it were.
If my mind were better at projecting, and all the things required for doing that.....especially when it came to higher level notions like presence, entity, intent....I'd be "smart" as shit, but also..likely, convinced of the goblins that I created as a consequence of a mind capable of creating better quality projections which can -already- give me the heebs at their current, mickey mouse levels.
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