The Need to Insert Fiction into Gaps.
Offline It is no suprise that humanity has always done this. Dawkins touched upon this "missfire" discribing it like a moth mistaking a lightbulb for the moonlight.
Over the years, of course I have heard the standard old school mythology passed off as fact. Although I should not be suprised, it still anoys me to this day that people invent new forms of fiction, use buzz words from science and repackage it to either prop up old myth or new age "concious cosmic brain".
It is tiresome to constantly battle this and it extreemly pervasive. I am not giving up. Just feel the need to vent here.
What is so horrable about saying, "I dont know" insted of incerting an arbitrary personal fancy into a gap? Shouldnt humanity intelectually outgrow that?
I am quite sure as a reality it will never 100% happen in any case. Even educated people fall prey to their own fancy. But it is my hope that athough it wont go away, that maybe someday rational thought will put things in proper priority.
"Giant cosmic brains" "cosmic conciousness" is the same catigory as big foot and oiji boards and Thor and Jesus. It never ceases to amaze me how old school myth lovers and new agers repackage and repackage debunked garbage in hopes that it will fool the skeptics.
It does have phycological reason. Being wrong is a challenge to the ego. But intellectuall braveness alows the individual to excape shackels and grow and is the only remedy to these mental pratfalls.
So there you have it. This is just a rant about my recent boughts with old school mythers and new agers and how both are in the same ship U.S.S. "Naked Assertion".
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If a member of the congregation asks one of those hard questions, there is no doubt that the minister/priest/what-have-you feels that they MUST have an answer.
Yup. Ego. You hit the nail on the head.
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I think the reason we try to make up answers for things is because in the end the fact is there are no answers. The universe ultimatly boils down to simple facts with no reasons, and this idea scares people. Of course, a God would still have these problems, but then they have reasons to not question God's nature.
I hope that when the world comes to an end I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
"Hitler burned people like Anne Frank, for that we call him evil.
"God" burns Anne Frank eternally. For that, theists call him 'good.'
This sounds like something from THHGTG.
And I believe it to be true.
I know the quote(Douglas Adams), but I don't know what you are trying to say.
I was agreeing with your first line from your last post.
"Hitler burned people like Anne Frank, for that we call him evil.
"God" burns Anne Frank eternally. For that, theists call him 'good.'
Yes. I've heard of this theory. It was presented to the Association of Physics in 1997 by two guys from Cleveland after twelve bong hits and a 5th of Jack Daniels.
Frosty's coming back someday. Will you be ready?
I'm pretty sure it wasn't Jack Daniels; it was a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.
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Agreed. It is frustrating that people consider our reality, which functions perfectly well on it's own and within it's own laws, and they add on top of it this silly supernatural twaddle. Nature is full of complexity to the point of wonderment, why add assumptions to it that are purely wild speculation?
It is certainly ego. We (not you and I but the royal 'we' ) think so highly of ourselves that we presume there must be an answer and that it is one we can understand.
[I said "royal we" and that makes me chuckle]