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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 12:49 PM Original message |
Humans 'Predisposed' to Believe in Gods and the Afterlife |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. I have disposed of those beliefs... n/t |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. Waste of money. nt |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not sure if you could call it predisposition |
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digonswine (463 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. We are lucky mud. |
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lumpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Yes, I found true freedom when I realized there in no answer and |
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lumpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Wanted to add. When I think about my death and my children, |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Well "forever" will be a subjective concept |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. IMO it's more like we are predisposed to give mental states to inanimate objects. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. If I had a dollar for every time I tried to "punish" a door for hitting me in the leg... |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 02:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
21. + |
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lumpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
5. I have not disposed of the desire for afterlife, it is the last vestige |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. no kidding |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. Likely a survival trait. |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
13. This predisposition may prove to be the fatal flaw for humans. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. As far as we know, humans are the only ones who do this |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 09:36 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Or it's an until-now not-too-harmful side effect of something else... |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 10:56 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. You've overthought my remarks. |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 07:55 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Well, yes and no |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
14. Ecclesiastes 3:11 |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. "... both theology and atheism are reasoned responses to what is a basic impulse of the human mind." |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Me too, but I think it goes something like this. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 11:13 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. That looks about right. |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 11:44 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Possible, but not necessary |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 08:23 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. The language makes me curious. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 08:37 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Maybe they are using the word in the sense of a study of a theos. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 09:15 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. That sounds to me as if they're using both terms |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 09:14 AM Response to Reply #18 |
30. Largely agree, but we must be careful not to confuse defaults. |
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Tyrs WolfDaemon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. I saw this in the Pagan Group the other day... |
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tortoise1956 (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
28. I think the answer is simple |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
29. I agree. Why else would billions of people consistently accept... |
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Humanist_Activist (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
31. I think its more generalized than that, human beings are predisposed to pattern... |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:42 AM Response to Original message |
32. And if you look at human history, we're also clearly predisposed to... |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. (aka religion) n/t |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:40 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. I like to think all of those can be overcome. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 06:47 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. We've made great strides fighting all of them. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 06:51 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Lolz |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 07:29 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Thankfully you & your religious brethren can't burn me at the stake. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 07:54 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. If someone has threatened to burn you at the stake, you must report it io the police. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-20-11 06:39 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Too bad all the victims of your church couldn't do that at the time. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-20-11 11:06 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. If you want to equate yourself to martyrs of the past, I won't stop you. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-20-11 11:30 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Of course I did no such thing, which does make it silly for you to say that. n/t |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-20-11 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
39. Sigmund Freud figured this out a long time ago. |
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