RE: God is Life?
February 28, 2016 at 8:15 am
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2016 at 8:20 am by Parashu.)
I try not to get angry on forums. At worst, they can make me sad from seeing there's no understanding whatsoever.
I'd say culture was created because I don't associate the word "creation" with "magic", but with that common phenomenon know as creativity...
A writter creates a text. It doesn't mean he magically created letters, grammar rules, paper, ink,...
I've heard some rabbis say that's how you have to understand the biblical word "creation". The way (american) "young earth creationists" understand that word is completely absurd...
The way I see it, language was created from giving a sentimental value to an item. This is what would have led an item to remain abnormally long in the group and also to generate a lot more tensions than a tool... And this would have led to name the item after a while. They started using a word to speak about that specific item...
So, there's a "creation" at the origin of language/culture : the sentimental value that was put in the item was created, ex nihilo... It is the beginning of a system which appeared at some point...
Oh, and by the way, many animals use names for things, but those are purely subjective words while ours are definetly more abstract... which I think is the reason why we named the names. We're "Sapiens" : we know something : we know that we name things and have a name for the names... that's basically what we know. Everything derives from that knowledge
I'd say culture was created because I don't associate the word "creation" with "magic", but with that common phenomenon know as creativity...
A writter creates a text. It doesn't mean he magically created letters, grammar rules, paper, ink,...
I've heard some rabbis say that's how you have to understand the biblical word "creation". The way (american) "young earth creationists" understand that word is completely absurd...
The way I see it, language was created from giving a sentimental value to an item. This is what would have led an item to remain abnormally long in the group and also to generate a lot more tensions than a tool... And this would have led to name the item after a while. They started using a word to speak about that specific item...
So, there's a "creation" at the origin of language/culture : the sentimental value that was put in the item was created, ex nihilo... It is the beginning of a system which appeared at some point...
Oh, and by the way, many animals use names for things, but those are purely subjective words while ours are definetly more abstract... which I think is the reason why we named the names. We're "Sapiens" : we know something : we know that we name things and have a name for the names... that's basically what we know. Everything derives from that knowledge
