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Phew! :relief: Thanks for keeping me on my toes, although they are starting to ache a bit!Kinsao said:Ah, I see what you mean now, Tsuyoiko. :relief:
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Phew! :relief: Thanks for keeping me on my toes, although they are starting to ache a bit!Kinsao said:Ah, I see what you mean now, Tsuyoiko. :relief:
That's the idea behind the evil aliens in Stargate SG1 - a great show that raises some interesting points on this subject.Mycernius said:As Sensuikan san pointed out, Gods need man. Without man there are no Gods. Nothing else in nature needs to worship a higher intelligence. If apes were able to grasp such an abstract idea, would they worship man? We can do things they can't would they. We can fly, cure ills, kill things from a great distance, create lightning. To our primitive ancestors we have the powers of their Gods.
Humans created "God".....not the other way around. Any higher power is simply a projection humans make of their own sub-conscious. If you look at all the othe primates, they are social creatures, just like us. There maybe lone wolves but not lone chimps. And we humans are the most social primates of all and with our much larger frontal lobes we think and experience things on a whole new level that other primates are incapable of. So for us, being the social creatures we are, have a basic need to not feel alone, in the universe. Plus we need something to make sense or some kind of reasoning when things happen out of our control, like the death of a loved one or our own mortality. It's part of our basic drive to not want to be alone, so we invent higher powers to make us...well....not feel alone (duh!) "God" is simply in our head.If there was a 'God' - where would he be ... without human beings to believe in him/her ...?
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It is a very interesting idea and I think it is a viable explanation to the origin of god. To be lonely and helpless against cruel nature creates an uneasy feeling to deal with. Certainly helping and friendly god/gods fill this void and gives us comforting feeling.Humans created "God".....not the other way around. Any higher power is simply a projection humans make of their own sub-conscious. If you look at all the othe primates, they are social creatures, just like us. There maybe lone wolves but not lone chimps. And we humans are the most social primates of all and with our much larger frontal lobes we think and experience things on a whole new level that other primates are incapable of. So for us, being the social creatures we are, have a basic need to not feel alone, in the universe. Plus we need something to make sense or some kind of reasoning when things happen out of our control, like the death of a loved one or our own mortality. It's part of our basic drive to not want to be alone, so we invent higher powers to make us...well....not feel alone (duh!) "God" is simply in our head.
I think it's quite likely that energy sources such as the Earth, Moon and Sun are the physical embodiments of conscious aware entities, so our Pagan ancestors who worshipped Gods and Goddesses may have been on the right track. But I don't know how much such entities actually care about or intercede in human affairs. And these Gods and Goddesses are part of our universe. As for whether there's a transcendent god that created the universe, that's a difficult question, IMO, because if no entity created the universe, it's hard to say where it came from, and if an entity did create the universe, it's hard to say where that entity came from. And I think that to say that a creator god is eternal, had no creator and has always existed makes less sense than to say that the universe is eternal, had no creator and has always existed, since we can at least be certain that the universe exists (although I know some would argue that). But if there is a creator god that made billions of galaxies, does he/she/it watch over individuals and criticize their behaviour? I think that's extremely unlikely, so I don't find the Abrahamic religions to be very logical.
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