RE: The need to believe?
July 13, 2017 at 9:18 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2017 at 9:21 pm by Whateverist.)
I suspect, as I think Khem may have just hinted at, the capacity/tendency to attribute comprehensible intentionality by personifying 'spirits' of animals and weather (etc.) would have been evolutionarily advantageous. It would be a natural first step which could have given our growing brains a way to strategically engage the perils and potential benefits of the environment, even before the development of symbolic language.
Maybe not, but the sex drive itself obviously is instinctual and rape would be the upshot given the opportunity and no countervailing inputs.
But to your point about seeing the intentions of gods in all manner of events, I completely agree with you. Of course I don't endorse relying on this primitive way of thinking any more than I endorse rape.
(July 13, 2017 at 3:13 pm)Lek Wrote:(July 13, 2017 at 12:47 pm)Whateverist Wrote: If you thought rape was instinctual would you advocate for it?
I don't think it's instinctual.
Maybe not, but the sex drive itself obviously is instinctual and rape would be the upshot given the opportunity and no countervailing inputs.
But to your point about seeing the intentions of gods in all manner of events, I completely agree with you. Of course I don't endorse relying on this primitive way of thinking any more than I endorse rape.
