On 6/14/2021 3:50 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
The world to the old peeps was malevolent. Feeding kids, keeping alive, surviving diseases, weather, war, and way early on, other animals. Religion acted as a psychological survival kit, and it often still does for many. Not such a comfort for you or I, but that's what makes soccer games.
No. In those days people made offerings and tried to placate demons and forces of nature. There was no demarcation between science, magic, and religion. It was only when humans became the dominant animal and invented agriculture and city states, that gods became super-men. Their leaders in war even ascended to the heavens when they died.
For me, the existential is ultimate, and perhaps it shouldn't be?
I don't even know what that means. Can you point to "the existential"?
Character flaw and all that. So I pursue the views of those willing to get into the intellectual weeds, for this.
So why are you on this list. Is someone here "in the weeds"? JKC? Bruno?
Now, this is knowing that the majority of scientists hate this because it gets in their way. They like atheism, they like when you are dead you are dead, and they like grants to pursue interesting research. For them, their neurobiology likes this pattern. Me? Not so much.
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