Thank you ,Anun.Trying to get free of it all is not easy.
You said, "Maybe its just having a world view founded on pure fantasy makes dealing with reality difficult for some people."
Wow that hits it on the head. People really NEED to have a world view founded on pure fantasy. I try to go back and see where it started, but so many texts are written from Xer beliefs, even if they are not believed. A lot of history was written that way, slanted. Thank Dog that new historians try very hard to avoid that bias, but it's been based on so much bias.
I assume we do have "God Gene" as Dean Hamer supposes:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=TmR6uAAH...&q&f=false
But he makes it clear it is not leading us to "god" but it is that feeling you get when you seen the Grand Canyon. An Atheist goes and say,"SHIT!" and gets a really amazing feeling. A theophile goes and says, "Praise GOd who made such beauty."
The gene causes the emotion, we provide the interpretation.
So I think that feeling is what causes people to want something more than is seen. It's a very big feeling, too big to thinkit is meaningless (which it is).
THe human body laid out is about 56,000 miles long!! That also seems to be too big to be meaningless, but it is meaningless.
You said, "Maybe its just having a world view founded on pure fantasy makes dealing with reality difficult for some people."
Wow that hits it on the head. People really NEED to have a world view founded on pure fantasy. I try to go back and see where it started, but so many texts are written from Xer beliefs, even if they are not believed. A lot of history was written that way, slanted. Thank Dog that new historians try very hard to avoid that bias, but it's been based on so much bias.
I assume we do have "God Gene" as Dean Hamer supposes:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=TmR6uAAH...&q&f=false
But he makes it clear it is not leading us to "god" but it is that feeling you get when you seen the Grand Canyon. An Atheist goes and say,"SHIT!" and gets a really amazing feeling. A theophile goes and says, "Praise GOd who made such beauty."
The gene causes the emotion, we provide the interpretation.
So I think that feeling is what causes people to want something more than is seen. It's a very big feeling, too big to thinkit is meaningless (which it is).
THe human body laid out is about 56,000 miles long!! That also seems to be too big to be meaningless, but it is meaningless.
