Godditit
December 9, 2013 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2013 at 10:33 pm by Silver.)
I was out today for the first time in a while, and I noticed something.
It is not the first time I have ever become aware of it, but it is something that popped in my mind as I experienced it.
I watched as the wind moved the branches and leaves of trees, as though the trees had lives of their own, and I continued to watch as the wind caused leaves and small debris on the ground to move about as though those small objects had lives of their own.
As I watched this, my rational mind knew that it was the wind behaving in accordance of what an irrational mind would most likely perceive as magic.
That is how primitive man viewed the world: magical. He saw magic and gods in everything that his simple mind could not comprehend.
The magic persists today, in the form of religion.
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The title should read Goddidit. Left out a "d".
It is not the first time I have ever become aware of it, but it is something that popped in my mind as I experienced it.
I watched as the wind moved the branches and leaves of trees, as though the trees had lives of their own, and I continued to watch as the wind caused leaves and small debris on the ground to move about as though those small objects had lives of their own.
As I watched this, my rational mind knew that it was the wind behaving in accordance of what an irrational mind would most likely perceive as magic.
That is how primitive man viewed the world: magical. He saw magic and gods in everything that his simple mind could not comprehend.
The magic persists today, in the form of religion.
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The title should read Goddidit. Left out a "d".
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
~ Erin Hunter
