RE: Pure Brutality
October 7, 2024 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2024 at 3:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Probably because there's no "beyond". Evolution isn't an orderly march to correction, and the thing/s that inform our nonsensical sense have/has practical value to us as a species.
This idea that all of the great religions have some sort of kernel of value that we might mine in troubled times is not more complicated, imo, than returning to a known source of water when our exploratory compulsions fail to bare quite literal fruit. The thing that gives us the ability to do the one comes with misfires like the other. We and many other species will return to water so long as it hasn't killed us yet, even if it had poisoned us from the first sip...which...imo...is what happened with theism in general and the spiritualist self help market in particular.
This idea that all of the great religions have some sort of kernel of value that we might mine in troubled times is not more complicated, imo, than returning to a known source of water when our exploratory compulsions fail to bare quite literal fruit. The thing that gives us the ability to do the one comes with misfires like the other. We and many other species will return to water so long as it hasn't killed us yet, even if it had poisoned us from the first sip...which...imo...is what happened with theism in general and the spiritualist self help market in particular.
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