RE: Here we go ...
February 1, 2023 at 7:11 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2023 at 7:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 1, 2023 at 6:47 pm)Justin Case Wrote:(February 1, 2023 at 6:09 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: People don't and have never needed to copy gods to believe in gods. Gods are just one of many examples of multiple independent construction. The abrahamic god arose from a yahwist cult.
The idea is, these gods (plural) or god (singular) do not exist. They were an interpretational explanation of either something that exists that they didn't understand, or, the ENTIRE picture is made up. If you look at the Egyptian and Sumerian afterlife picture, they were both different explanations. Was the idea of the afterlife right to start with, and these explanation were all made up? We come from thousands of years of natural hallucinogenic drug use, and what these people saw while tripping could be the foundational picture behind everything talked about. Then too, between studies on NDEs (as long as they were shown to be flat line brain dead) and the subject we call the paranormal, there definitely seems to be SOMETHING going on, and the "GOD" idea was just an ancient interpretation of this known about picture.
The idea of the afterlife predates and is independent of either picture..and not by a little, by a lot. 100kya at least. You don't need drugs to come up with afterlives. You need only be able to dream, to love, and to miss the lost. If you're interested in this, history won't help you, it's prehistory.
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