(July 15, 2017 at 11:43 pm)Fireball Wrote:(July 15, 2017 at 11:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'm not criticizing you, just to be clear. Those people seriously piss me off. I just don't think they have the capacity to do otherwise.
The human condition is that we can imagine, and that imagination in its strongest form is hard to distinguish from reality. Then we have a rational mind, and a complex mechanism of instincts that revolve around feelings: love, fear, and even superstitious inclinations.
In short, humans will NEVER settle down into a peaceful, sensible community, because if we ever have the capacity to do that as a species, we won't really be human any more-- we'll be something else. The rational ones among us, for now, must just watch from the sidelines while the irrational majority fuck the world up step by step.
I think that we'd still be human, in the biological sense. But hopefully evolved beyond a lot of the parts of our nature that make us so gullible. Then again, that trust of the adult that permits the young to learn so much probably interferes with that. I personally think that religion is going to be a monkey on our backs for the span of time that humans exist.
We're capable of it, just not many of us, and were it not for wanton indoctrination, more people probably would be too. I honestly don't think we're going to be around long enough to turn into something else, let alone something capable of rising above that limitation en mass.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.