(January 24, 2019 at 5:02 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:(January 24, 2019 at 4:22 pm)Brian37 Wrote: For most, it is a hard concept to accept the truth of independent and not connected similar claims.
I am giving you the answer. Humans do not even have to know each other or ever meet each other to come up with the same independent bad claims.
The truth of our species is that evolution drives us to seek patterns, and to survive, and we don't like the idea of being finite. In the age of ignorance, even in our oral tradition, long before the first writings, humans whom never met, would project their human qualities on the world around them.
It is simple human psychology to try to associate the world around you to something you are familiar with, and back in antiquity the only thing we understood was that we existed. So when bigger events, such as volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes, migration patterns, we stupidly, AND independently guessed that since we could think ourselves, there was a anthropomorphic human like/super natural force we had to bargain with, bow to or avoid the wrath of.
Even today, you could literally put say 20 kids whom are 3 to 5 years old, and without indoctrination, being in that same room would manufacture their own bad guesses as to why things happen.
The simple truth is humans were projecting their own qualities on the world around them because they didn't know any better.
The bold part of your reply Brian, the assumption of the existence of a super-deity itself is very strange, why a God controlling the volcano; why not a clan of dragons, or the volcano itself being alive?
The idea of natural objects being alive -for example- were known since ancient times but it never gained popularity as an explanation. It was always the theory of a God in the sky that wins in the end.
We do project our qualities on our beliefs; that's why it's innate capacity to assume that the mountain is alive or the volcano can see. But why a "God/s" controlling it? and across all earth, for thousands of years? why did this idea win and stay alive until today?
Huh?
Humans made up all sorts of hybrids of animal/nature deities with human like qualities.
Horus the Egyptian savior son of Osiris and Isis was depicted as a falcon. Pele in Hawaii was the female goddess who controlled fire/volcanos.
And have you not looked at Asia's mythology? That is full of dragons.
I think you are missing my point. It is BOTH that humans thought a human like controler controlled the ocean, or sun, or volcano, AND or THEY thought the thing itself, was a super cognition, so not either or, but BOTH, depending on the society in geographical history.
BOTH are still a projection of human qualities on non human events/life.
The projection of human qualities on non human events/life wins mostly because parents hand down their traditions/mythologies to children long before they can formulate adult critical thinking skills.
