RE: Religion and rituality
July 21, 2013 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2013 at 5:36 pm by pineapplebunnybounce.)
hm, i'm sure there are some psychological explanations for rituals (nothing comes to mind right now).
But, i think that it's just human of us to have to have rituals especially when dealing with something you cannot feel/see/hear/perceive. everything in our life we have to perceive, or it isn't there. i think rituals is in a way, human's way of interacting with what they cannot perceive, but think is real. because it's human nature that everything that's real should have a tangible something to give meaning to it. Also it's our way of achieving something. For example, if i want to go shopping, i have to leave home and get a bus to the mall. i did something real to achieve something real. to achieve something "spiritual", the only way we know how is to do tangible things. The effect wouldn't be the same, if religion is all in our heads, because you won't be sure that others think that way, and after a while, you forget, because thoughts are not as tangible as actions.
But, i think that it's just human of us to have to have rituals especially when dealing with something you cannot feel/see/hear/perceive. everything in our life we have to perceive, or it isn't there. i think rituals is in a way, human's way of interacting with what they cannot perceive, but think is real. because it's human nature that everything that's real should have a tangible something to give meaning to it. Also it's our way of achieving something. For example, if i want to go shopping, i have to leave home and get a bus to the mall. i did something real to achieve something real. to achieve something "spiritual", the only way we know how is to do tangible things. The effect wouldn't be the same, if religion is all in our heads, because you won't be sure that others think that way, and after a while, you forget, because thoughts are not as tangible as actions.
