we have no idea they all had the same delusion.
You have no idea that they did, and you have no idea they didn’t.
That’s why I said before that if you can see how religions rhyme, you can find a core message in all of them. And that, I think, is the truth.
What’s your point? That religion is flawed? Then, yes, I agree, that was what I was trying to convey in my original comment.
The exclusivity is a product of man trying to control others. Just look at early Christianity, which was non-hierarchical and gender-equal. It was only later that it was turned into the power structure of Catholicism.
What if their reported experiences are just delusions?
If people across time and space who have sought the answer to the question “What is the nature of the universe and what is the meaning of life” all came to the same delusion, then fuck it, let’s all be delusional together because it’s apparently inherent to human nature.
I didn’t know that about the Australian Aboriginals, I’ll have to learn about them. And what’s the difference between god dreaming the world into existence and god making it with their own hands? It’s all allegory for creation.
Absolutely, people who achieve enlightenment interpret the experience through the lens of their own culture. Buddhism is that truth seen through the lens of Buddha’s Hinduism, Christianity (minus anything Paul wrote) is that truth seen through the lens of Jesus’s Jew upbringing.
There’s even people who have achieved it nowadays that interpret life as a sort of video game.
Since it’s inconceivable that all religions can be right
It’s not that inconceivable. I think religions are flawed interpretations of a single truth that seems to be universal to human existence.
Study enough religions and you start to see how they rhyme.
As a society we are choosing to have industry that creates cancers. If we chose to stop doing that, maybe instead we could spend our time appreciating the beauty of each beetle.
Jet fuel doesn’t need extra tanks of mind control agent, they’re already using leaded fuel
That writer really knows how to end an article on a downer
The god they believe in would tell them to sell their belongings and use all their worldly power to help the poor, but I guess they know better.
Also just look at Clarence Thomas’s expression, that’s a man that’s never known a shred of happiness in his life.
Whichever one I’m attracted to
Hobbies aren’t supposed to be profitable
IDK, I’m from Chicago
So you’re more familiar with the end stage of the process.
All I knew was that he was a drama llama for clicks that was eating himself to death. Glad to hear he’s lost all that weight.
Luke seems clueless about how information is conveyed in conversation
we’ve reached market saturation with mediocrity
You’re only saying that because our society has decided that being average is bad, and being below average is unacceptable.
you can then check the science
Me and what degree? Science is so far beyond what I can understand that I would need to spend years of my life studying a single topic to understand a small sliver of science.
I, and generalizing to we, need to take science on faith as much as anyone in a church. Actually, it’s more on faith than in a church because anyone can pray and see what that results in.
The minimum time commitment is what gets me. I can have my phone out and social media open in seconds