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Post by greatestiam on Jun 15, 2019 16:35:37 GMT
Would insecurity be the main cause of our creating and adoring evil gods? Humans are the most insecure animals on the planet.
The root of our selfish gene creates insecurity, which feeds our tribal nature; feeding our desire to join religions and other tribes. This we should see as a loving gesture.
This loving bias simultaneously creates a hate or negative bias to whatever would threaten a human’s new tribe.
Hate is thus good and should not be censored.
In its expression on such sites, I think it would improve us all if we showed our hate with more couth and fewer locker room expletives. I digress. Our gods, who are political and religious; are all good in our eyes. Yet, they use concepts like killing and genocides, inquisitions and jihads, penalties for minor infractions, --- like death, --- that goes way past an eye for an eye, --- etc. etc. etc.
We are what we think our ideals are. I think we are more moral than our ideal garbage gods.
Our insecurity wants a god that is all powerful and will do anything to save you, and to hell with all that you do not like. Our selfish gene wants to rule the world.
If not insecurity, why do you think we give up our freedom to political and religious con persons and other flagrant liars?
Regards DL
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jun 15, 2019 19:23:55 GMT
"Humans are the most insecure animals on the planet" - Destroying ourselves is not the way out. A man, once trapping into this world, has already blamed by everything, but who blames him, but himself? It's just our style of thinking.
People are the most powerful mind in the universe. Soon enough the keenest artificial intellect will be created, and we'll become the rulers of the universe. Even if there are bloody or even nuclear wars, the human being will win. Humanity is God.
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Post by greatestiam on Jun 15, 2019 21:01:54 GMT
I agree that gods come out of humanity.
That is an old Gnostic Christian view that I share along with their/our name.
Regards DL
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Post by jonbain on Jun 15, 2019 21:09:06 GMT
Would insecurity be the main cause of our creating and adoring evil gods? Humans are the most insecure animals on the planet.
The root of our selfish gene creates insecurity, which feeds our tribal nature; feeding our desire to join religions and other tribes. This we should see as a loving gesture.
This loving bias simultaneously creates a hate or negative bias to whatever would threaten a human’s new tribe.
Hate is thus good and should not be censored.
In its expression on such sites, I think it would improve us all if we showed our hate with more couth and fewer locker room expletives. I digress. Our gods, who are political and religious; are all good in our eyes. Yet, they use concepts like killing and genocides, inquisitions and jihads, penalties for minor infractions, --- like death, --- that goes way past an eye for an eye, --- etc. etc. etc.
We are what we think our ideals are. I think we are more moral than our ideal garbage gods.
Our insecurity wants a god that is all powerful and will do anything to save you, and to hell with all that you do not like. Our selfish gene wants to rule the world.
If not insecurity, why do you think we give up our freedom to political and religious con persons and other flagrant liars?
Regards DL
But then what makes us feel insecure? Sure we can have real reasons for it, but I guess you are really talking about false feelings of insecurity which then just manifest as unjustified paranoia. People do crave certainty, but few go very far to really understand what understanding really entails. Most specifically in terms of rigorous thinking about logic and emotional introspection. Yes people could be more honest about what they hate, but so many people just take a knee-jerk reaction - and then just hate the shadow of themselves. That is why hatred is suppressed by society. The www has swamped us with info, and thus in many ways, people have reverted to just copy-paste thought processes instead of contemplative abstraction. What causes insecurity is often unresolved events from earlier years and childhood. Revisiting all your past insecurities and re-owning them is vital. If not, then you end up reliving them. Pay attention to your dreams they are telling you vital clues, better than any psychologist can do. Your dreams are often just reflections of those insecurities which inhibit you. You can be anything if you free your mind from the shackles of the past.
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Post by greatestiam on Jun 18, 2019 19:29:34 GMT
Jonbain
"But then what makes us feel insecure?"
The fact that we are helpless and dependent on others for so long after our birth.
Most animals are mobile from day one. We are helpless for a lot of years.
Regards DL
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