RE: A possibly new perspective on this thing that we know as God.
March 8, 2020 at 9:03 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2020 at 9:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
First it was people exist, therefore god. Now it's people build houses, therefore god.....................
This thing that has you amazed, amazed enough to think it amounts to a reason to believe in gods..actually is amazing. It's just that it's a human story, completely explicable by reference to human beings and human actions. If thoughts like those have the ability to capture your imagination, then you need to put down the fairy tales and pick up a few books on anthropology and archaeology.
They would explain, for example, that human beings "moved out of caves" as a consequence of the growth of woody shrubs and long grasses that advanced as glaciers retreated - coinciding with a population boom, and the need to find new sources of food as megafauna declined. It would not have been possible for us to make shelters without these new resources and there was no need to make new shelters so long as the ones we had could hold us and were near food. Following that change in circumstance, human shelter has always been an issue of making some hollow form that people can fit inside. Whether that's piling up blocks of ice into an igloo, or mixing thatch with clay, or shit-based wattle and daubs with a pile of grass for a hat. Hell, even when we were taking what we found in a cave...we built walls and corridors to manage draft and security.
God's aren't interested in building shelters, let alone a house. The millions of years that man lived without them and the millions of people who still do establish this point, at least. Our first shelter was the skin of other animals, skins that that we wore..untanned and unstiched....until they rotted away and we needed a new one. We're 2.5 million years old. We lived in caves (and just out in the open) until about 100k years ago. We only managed to become fully modern 50k years ago. The oldest houses we know of are from a scant 2.8k years ago. It was a long slog, and I'm sure that human beings would have welcomed any divine intervention at every point along the way, particularly as we watched our children die from exposure even when they were inside of our shelters. Just as often, we watched them die due to some fact of the construction of our shelters. Still do. We've reached the point today where the construction of our shelters has become an existential threat to our species, even.
How positively di-vine!
Obviously, nothing up above really concerns your god beliefs. By all means, continue talking about your imaginary friend...I only hope to show you how the reasons you're offering are non-starters. You do your religion and your god no favors with this sort of stuff.
This thing that has you amazed, amazed enough to think it amounts to a reason to believe in gods..actually is amazing. It's just that it's a human story, completely explicable by reference to human beings and human actions. If thoughts like those have the ability to capture your imagination, then you need to put down the fairy tales and pick up a few books on anthropology and archaeology.
They would explain, for example, that human beings "moved out of caves" as a consequence of the growth of woody shrubs and long grasses that advanced as glaciers retreated - coinciding with a population boom, and the need to find new sources of food as megafauna declined. It would not have been possible for us to make shelters without these new resources and there was no need to make new shelters so long as the ones we had could hold us and were near food. Following that change in circumstance, human shelter has always been an issue of making some hollow form that people can fit inside. Whether that's piling up blocks of ice into an igloo, or mixing thatch with clay, or shit-based wattle and daubs with a pile of grass for a hat. Hell, even when we were taking what we found in a cave...we built walls and corridors to manage draft and security.
God's aren't interested in building shelters, let alone a house. The millions of years that man lived without them and the millions of people who still do establish this point, at least. Our first shelter was the skin of other animals, skins that that we wore..untanned and unstiched....until they rotted away and we needed a new one. We're 2.5 million years old. We lived in caves (and just out in the open) until about 100k years ago. We only managed to become fully modern 50k years ago. The oldest houses we know of are from a scant 2.8k years ago. It was a long slog, and I'm sure that human beings would have welcomed any divine intervention at every point along the way, particularly as we watched our children die from exposure even when they were inside of our shelters. Just as often, we watched them die due to some fact of the construction of our shelters. Still do. We've reached the point today where the construction of our shelters has become an existential threat to our species, even.
How positively di-vine!
Obviously, nothing up above really concerns your god beliefs. By all means, continue talking about your imaginary friend...I only hope to show you how the reasons you're offering are non-starters. You do your religion and your god no favors with this sort of stuff.
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