On Tue, 6 May 2008 08:50:37 -0700 (PDT), Hatter
<Hatter23@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On May 5, 10:44=A0am, jesucris...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(marques de sade) wrote:
>> so if the myths are still around, they must also be working, by
>> your logic, or so it would appear. have i covered all the
>> disclaimers?
>> --
>No. The culture sup****ting the myth survives, so the myth does. If
>something is non-culture dependent, such as metal smelting, the more
>likely it is real.
i don't believe that there are monolithic 'cultures' that are
consistent throughout history and drag their religions along with
them and neither of them \(the culture or the religion) vary
whatsoever over a long period of time... all cultures blend and
intermix with every other culture and are constantly evolving and
reshaping themselves (as well as their religious elements). a
'culture' so-called may very well become secularised and retain
that religious element, as we see for example in Mexico. True
Religion doesn't ever give final answers, but just leads to more
questions and leaves an element of the mysterious and
unapproachable.... Religion is a compliment and condiment if you
will of whatever any particular Culture can be said to be
generating at any one time, via technology, science or what have
you... even if the culture is tem****ary and not some Grand Roman
Empire, etc.... it could just be a group of 3 individuals
producing Culture... and pondering on the mysteries and secrets of
the Universe at the same time, without compromising their realness
or sincerity... hell, it could be one person with no name, since
you only need a name for the sake of others (eg: to be labeled).
>
>Magic, on the other hand, is crap.
it's intended to seem like crap to outsiders--so they don't try to
meddle and/or **** with it. don't cast your pearls, etc...
octinomos
--
`We come now to the idea of the Gaeia Universe, where the whole of the
Universe would be a single living entity of which all mankind is barely an
organelle. But unlike the organisms of Earth, the elements of the Universe,
energy and matter, are not connected by the bloody and battering
interaction of consumption that we experience on Earth, but by the same
forces of physics and mechanics which govern the aforementioned
astronomical principles. The concept of pantheism proposes an additional
connection, one of an overarching divine presence. In this divinity, mind
and matter are one, and all things in the Universe are evenly connected''
--B.D. Abramson
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