(April 23, 2017 at 11:12 am)Brian37 Wrote:(April 23, 2017 at 11:04 am)Little Rik Wrote: It is all about filling the gap that lead you to a sense of completeness.
It is an innate feeling that leave you no escape.
You can ignore, postpone or shelve for sometime but sooner or later that feeling will come back to you again and again until you deal with.
"Its all about filling the gap"
And that is our species problem right there.
The ancient Egyptians for 3,000 years filled in the gap with the sun god Ra and Osiris and Horis and Isis, and while that gap filling did create social order, it turned out none of those gods were ever real.
Invent the problem, sell the cure. At least snake oil salesmen actually have snake oil to sell.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'