Young children often ask, "Where did I come from?" They grow up but they forget to keep asking important questions. Has an adult ever asked, "Where does god come from?" I don't think so. There's an explanation why this question is not asked.
Belief in gods started 9000 years ago. How did the belief even start? Gods do not exist materially to be seen. There is no evidence in reality that even one god exists.
How did the belief that some entities have super-natural powers, powers to create the cosmos and all that is in it? Where does belief in such a fantastic super-being come from?
Some answers are in this blog. But not all. Maybe we should be concerned only with the evidence of "his" existence. If we can see with our own minds that god is mere fantasy - to serve a selfish purpose, to grab power, or to control minds - then we have no further need to have other questions answered. Religion is a god-thing, it is a set of ceremonies and conventions about the super-being making belief important in the minds of people so that they will believe in god. But if there is no god, religion is just so much hot air coming out of the mouths of fantasy-loving minds. Belief is believed to be stronger and having more value that knowledge.
I hope an insight into how belief in a super-being was institutionalized helps you to use your own mind.
Friday, 11 October 2013
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Being Sapiens
Eliminating the falsehoods of patriarchy established in language means changing our habits of thinking. We have to see rationality as an effective and efficient way of developing a more moral species and more civilized societies. This does not mean that rationality goes it alone, experience and emotions exist in our evolved state as minded beings. In this blog we consider mostly rationality.
Being sapiens means being speech-makers. To make speech is to create useful information to communicate correct information and to communicate with each other as a speech-using species. The bit of "useful information" is enclosed in a name. As a species, what distinguishes us from sheep, bees, cows, etc., is the fact that we make names: we create speech.
Rationality, based as it is on reasoning is a sensible process. It is about applying logic in relating the facts as seen in reality. It is evidence-based. From an acorn, an oak. The facts are learned from what exists in reality through the names we give to it. Thus it mostly always remains moderate.
Sapiens consist of fem and man. The names are based on facts as seen in reality. Since evolution we have been sapiens, speech-makers and users. Nothing can change this. We can make things right again by accepting the correct information about our species.
Making a man that's not man and naming him wo/man is absurd. It is irrationality carried to the extreme to claim the whole species "mankind." It is the foolish activity of a few men thousands of years ago who made speech items claiming the phallus to be "divine." Such irrational activity cannot reverse evolution. So making the change from phallic fantasy to the real fact is a matter of doing what is best for the common good of all.
We are sapiens. Fem and man are equal speech-makers. Both have to create speech thus creating checks and balances on one another to make sure nonsensical fantasy does not take hold ever again.
Being sapiens means being speech-makers. To make speech is to create useful information to communicate correct information and to communicate with each other as a speech-using species. The bit of "useful information" is enclosed in a name. As a species, what distinguishes us from sheep, bees, cows, etc., is the fact that we make names: we create speech.
Rationality, based as it is on reasoning is a sensible process. It is about applying logic in relating the facts as seen in reality. It is evidence-based. From an acorn, an oak. The facts are learned from what exists in reality through the names we give to it. Thus it mostly always remains moderate.
Sapiens consist of fem and man. The names are based on facts as seen in reality. Since evolution we have been sapiens, speech-makers and users. Nothing can change this. We can make things right again by accepting the correct information about our species.
Making a man that's not man and naming him wo/man is absurd. It is irrationality carried to the extreme to claim the whole species "mankind." It is the foolish activity of a few men thousands of years ago who made speech items claiming the phallus to be "divine." Such irrational activity cannot reverse evolution. So making the change from phallic fantasy to the real fact is a matter of doing what is best for the common good of all.
We are sapiens. Fem and man are equal speech-makers. Both have to create speech thus creating checks and balances on one another to make sure nonsensical fantasy does not take hold ever again.
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