9th March 2003, 12:39 AM
In response to ABF's post he made right before I posted my above post:
Wonder about future religion? Play Xenosaga!
As far as humans existing without religion, it seems to me that the human psyche is built incomplete. It's like there is a sort of hole that has to be filled with something. Now, there's eating, mating, having kids... That all satiates it a little bit. Why do such seperate things seem to do that? They all seem to satysfy something about prolongment. Wanting to survive is a trait that prooves to allow whatever has it to survive! Why do only those most fit to survive survive? Why can't stuff built not to survive last a while? Because they aren't built to last a while! It works like that because it is. All life wants eternity, well the life that wants to keep on keeping on, and of course that which doesn't, doesn't, so existance wants to exist basically, or it wouldn't, because it wouldn't. Things like eating and mating are merely tools to get this eternity. I think all life will always have religion because it's the best tool to obtain this needed thing all life craves, eternity. All life will ALWAYS crave eternity. If it didn't, we WOULD NOT LAST FOR ETERNITY, and thus future would not matter any more, because humans would all be dead, and nothing would replace them unless it too desired eternity, and thus physical tools like eating and psychological tools like religion would occur with them too. Only things which will stop existing do not desire religion.
Wonder about future religion? Play Xenosaga!
As far as humans existing without religion, it seems to me that the human psyche is built incomplete. It's like there is a sort of hole that has to be filled with something. Now, there's eating, mating, having kids... That all satiates it a little bit. Why do such seperate things seem to do that? They all seem to satysfy something about prolongment. Wanting to survive is a trait that prooves to allow whatever has it to survive! Why do only those most fit to survive survive? Why can't stuff built not to survive last a while? Because they aren't built to last a while! It works like that because it is. All life wants eternity, well the life that wants to keep on keeping on, and of course that which doesn't, doesn't, so existance wants to exist basically, or it wouldn't, because it wouldn't. Things like eating and mating are merely tools to get this eternity. I think all life will always have religion because it's the best tool to obtain this needed thing all life craves, eternity. All life will ALWAYS crave eternity. If it didn't, we WOULD NOT LAST FOR ETERNITY, and thus future would not matter any more, because humans would all be dead, and nothing would replace them unless it too desired eternity, and thus physical tools like eating and psychological tools like religion would occur with them too. Only things which will stop existing do not desire religion.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)