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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (367)	8/11/2000 12:19:30 PM
From: booters	Respond to of 28931

<Considering we consider our selves rational folk where the hell does this need come from> Good point, have not thought of it just that way. I know you are using spiritual in a broad sense but I am not sure it's need is genetic. But if I put together some of your statements and some of Solon's I think I can get to the root of it. If we start with Solon's 'self interest', and then add your 'need for co-operation' we come to 'religion would benefit the stability of the group' and that gets us to 'spiritual need' very quickly. I believe 'self interest' is genetic and from here it is a very short step to 'Spiritual need is genetic'. If we can agree on this I think a major step forward has been made. boots

To: pezz who wrote (367)	8/11/2000 9:13:59 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Considering we consider our selves rational folk where the hell does this need come from Well, considering ourselves rational does not entail, either that we are absolutely so, nor that rationality excludes emotional needs for comfort, and so forth. Even the most rational people in our world are not absolutely so. People are more than simply thinkers. We are vulnerable and fragile wanderers (intellectually and emotionally) in a huge universe, which is extremely difficult to understand. The fact that some of us are somewhat rational does not make us omnipotent or omniscient or without questions or needs. Learning never ends, because we seek that which we lack or need. Otherwise, we would be God. In the end we are simply fragile people--searching for happiness, and not averse to a bit of help. The need comes from the fact that we are limited, and therefore not God...or if we are God, most of us don't know it...