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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (1584)	1/19/2001 12:27:47 AM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Respond to of 82486

I don't know, Ylang...I think the fundamental reason for... 'religion' in the first place was that people have always been terrified to live with the knowledge that they're going to DIE ultimately ... and so seek some rescuing supernatural deity <g> -- not unlike the stock market hope we here have -- to calm them throughout the years between their birth-death milestones to be encrypted on that grave marker for eternity. Or, in the old days, <g> like Neolithic, etc, perhaps they weren't yet so 'evolved' to realize they'd die. So, they worshipped the sun? I doubt it, but hell, I don't know. They were just barely evolved from animal stage, I figure, struggling to 'invent the technology' to create fire. Matches, you know. <g> I'm sorry I'm so ignorant on, like, history of religious beliefs from the stone age and beyond. Can't give you links. No time or interest in researching. I just think it's all BS. People desperately trying to live with the knowledge that they, too, will die. It's a tough concept with which to cope, granted. Always has been. In the years 1000, 1550, 1895, 1920, 1950, 1980, or 2001. That's what I think religion brings to those who can't cope with the fact of their eventual death. As does any other sort of social fraternization. It's soothing to spend time with other human beings who are also doomed to death. Passes the time pleasantly. <g> Or not. Usually. They're all a pain in the ass with their own stupid problems putting one foot in front of the other to survive this grounded life on Earth ... no wonder they aspire to the afterlife "heavenly" "reward." If they're 'good.' <g> 'b-i-a' ###