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Theory of Mind
Robert Seyfarth talks about how children develop a ‘theory of mind’.
Preface to ‘The Heathen’s Guide to World Religions’
To each their own, but when it comes to attributing natural phenomena to a God or gods, it seems that as science progresses there are less and less places for God to hide. I stumbled across this preface, and the book looks pretty promising ;-D.
In the beginning, we humans lived in the wild and ate whatever was slower or stupider than we were. At this time, we invented a thing called a “god.” The god was made from the mightiest elements mankind could see: fire, thunder, lightning… all the big, scary stuff. We understood little about these gods, except for the simple fact that in their Infinite Wisdom they had decided they didn’t need to eat us. As we found this good, we honored and worshiped them.
As time passed and humans prospered on Earth, we learned much about the way the planet actually worked. Over and over again, we humans were put in the awkward position of looking at things like storm clouds and saying “Wait a minute…that’s not a god. That’s a high ridge of barometric pressure coming in from the cooler coastal region.”
But there were still a lot of things we didn’t understand. So, rather than waste more time and effort deifying every new enigma we ran across, we decided to simplify the whole mess by creating a single, omnipresent ‘God’ on whom we could throw all the mysteries of the universe until such time as our descendants could look at them and say, “Wait a minute…that’s not God. That’s…”
These days we’ve solved so many of life’s mysteries that we’re running out of things to call ‘God.’ Between mapping the human genome and cloning animals, we almost lack the ability to perceive anything as being more powerful than we are. This new mindset has opened the door to a broader theological search that requires a lot of time and dedicated effort on the part of religious leaders worldwide.
As this tends to keep them the hell out of our way, the rest of us now have the chance to think for ourselves.
And so the era of the Heathen begins…
Glad to be done with grad school and possibly back in action!
Oz
Consciousness Drives The Universe
Outstanding video which depicts that consciousness is what drives and shapes everything. This means ultimately everything in the universe and that even matter is consciousness in the most subtlest and dense form.