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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Time doesn't exist
« on: April 28, 2010, 10:28:45 AM »
There's still the problem of where God came from.
There are other problems too, like a crowd's willingness to believe stuff in a fit of hysteria (which is what supernatural things get explained as a lot)
Turtlekid, what fictional works of the day? The Bible is one of the very few written documents surviving at all from the era 4000-2000 years ago and like the only other ones are religious texts too.
Lizard Dude doesn't really seem to take into account the theory that I think best explains the origin of a lot of religions, which is that it was at the time a sort of "science" - people had no clue what caused weather, natural disasters, etc. and they tried to correlate natural occurrences with the things they did, and tried to work out a system to make the natural world do what they wanted, so they'd sacrifice some stuff and people for good weather, crops, etc. In hopes that whatever they thought was controlling the weather and earthquakes and floods would do what they wanted. The system just got more complex and then after a while it became more of a social system/means of controlling people instead of a pseudoscientific attempt to govern the natural world.
There are other problems too, like a crowd's willingness to believe stuff in a fit of hysteria (which is what supernatural things get explained as a lot)
Turtlekid, what fictional works of the day? The Bible is one of the very few written documents surviving at all from the era 4000-2000 years ago and like the only other ones are religious texts too.
Lizard Dude doesn't really seem to take into account the theory that I think best explains the origin of a lot of religions, which is that it was at the time a sort of "science" - people had no clue what caused weather, natural disasters, etc. and they tried to correlate natural occurrences with the things they did, and tried to work out a system to make the natural world do what they wanted, so they'd sacrifice some stuff and people for good weather, crops, etc. In hopes that whatever they thought was controlling the weather and earthquakes and floods would do what they wanted. The system just got more complex and then after a while it became more of a social system/means of controlling people instead of a pseudoscientific attempt to govern the natural world.
