(August 14, 2020 at 1:38 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: You can't earn endless bliss in heaven. And you can't earn endless torture in hell. It sounds retarded no matter how you look at it.
Ideas like afterlife are quite primitive and not very well thought out—and for a reason.
When you’re are living in a hunters and gatherers sort of society, things are pretty uncertain and simple. You need food, you need sleep, you need shelter and you need sex. Whatever time is left after that is spent on storytelling and bonding etc. Not much going on pondering complexities of life or nature because you don’t know whole a lot about life and nature beyond your day to day survival—so all your stories and ideas are going to reflect your present lifestyle and aspirations—unlimited supply of sex and food would do it without much worrying about predators.
These ideas are then transmitted through culture and upbringing and stick with us since we humans, like many other animals, excel at passing on knowledge. We are actually better than any other animal species at that.
We never really do go back and revisit those fantastical ideas to update them to be consistent with present knowledge and understanding of nature. Except for perhaps past few centuries where some small number of us (relatively speaking in terms of world population) have started seeing the logical and scientifically clear flaws in the story.
