RE: Ecclesiastes 9:5
August 3, 2023 at 10:47 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2023 at 10:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 2, 2023 at 3:45 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(August 2, 2023 at 3:08 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Why not? Maybe god wasn't there when it all began. Maybe gods an idiot. Maybe god likes to prank us.
Both of your plausibility cases were beliefs in ritual impurity - btw - not pathogens or medication. They can't really be wrong about either one.
You think that people back then didn't really think that those shamanic recepies were health-giving?
Dualists think that there are two different kinds of health. You can be perfectly physically healthy, and still ritually or spiritually unwell.
Take women being unclean. We all know they're not sick and dying. Every single woman everywhere. All of our mothers, our sisters, our friends, and our wives.....and yet. More than that, we know that people thought all sorts of things had medicinal uses but the majority of them were not seen as being able to heal your spirit and wouldn't make an appearance in foundational myths and legends.
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