RE: Regarding Jesus
July 8, 2014 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2014 at 10:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:I'm just looking at possibilities based on what 21st century peoples' brains produce as anomalous experiences and wondering if that kind of thing had anything to do with the start of the Jesus myth. After all, brains would have been the same 2,000 years ago.Trouble with that, from my POV, is that to even begin down the road of such wonderings you have to favor an incredibly complicated and convoluted scenario over another, simpler and very well evidenced explanation. It's just a story. It -may be- that pixies put dew on the petals of flowers......but so long as water behaves that way regardless of the presence of pixies - I'm gonna go with "That's condensation asshats". Know what I mean?
I don't understand why we would go about salvaging a narrative that doesn't need salvaging in the first place. Nobody says "well, maybe people hallucinated Cu Chulainn's battle spasms" - do they?
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