What do you see?

[bilko]

Actually i just thought. Why do we ( generic ) feel the need to justify our existance at all?
I wonder if the more human intelligence evolves the more we need an answer and turn to religion?
The more technology advances the more redundant we feel and turn to the spiritual that technology cannot provide?
Do animals ask why they are here, where they are going?, No is the answer i think. Did cavemen ask or were they too busy trying to survive? i think it's likely they wondered about things in the same way that an ape will wonder where all the water from a waterfall comes from.
So where di religion and questioning ones existance start?, i think it was gradual.
As man learned ( probably by accident ) to use crude metal tools he wondered about the fire that made them and turned to the sun for guidance.
Is it possible that there is a connection between the advances in technology and the advancement of religion? I mean what if man had found water to be an extremely powerfull tool?, or never discovered metals?, where would religion be then. Is it possible that man's technologic advances and his religious beliefs are entwinned/ closely linked?
Although it is said that human evolotion takes millions of years or thousands of generations for the smallest of change i think it is much shorter than that. Maybe even technological advances albeit primitive ones and human evolutin are linked. maybe the 9 tenths of the brain we don't use ( or whatever it is 0 is due to something material that has yet to be found. A new material or energy , entity even. Maybe not as that would suggest a plan.
Sorry just rambling

 

[pierre girard]

It does always surprise me when this type of subject comes up. On similar backwoods forums in the US - a lot more of the people are faith based, or from a Christian backround. As Christianity in America has a European, often English, source - we wonder about that quite a bit.

Did most of the Christians in Europe emmigrate to America?

 

[Spacemonkey]

No, but a lot of the 'holier than though' religious types did to escape persecution back home. Now you've got them!!!

 

[gregorach]

Plus after most of Europe was torn apart by religious civil war during and after the Reformation, a lot of people got sick of it. There's still plenty of religion over here - it's just most people tend to regard it more as a private matter.

On a completely different note, I see bilko's mentioned the old "we only use 1/10th of our brain" story... It's completely untrue, and actually has been around for a lot longer than we've had any idea of how the brain actually works. When was the last time you heard of somebody having a stroke, but being unaffected because it only damaged part of the 9/10ths of the brain you supposedly don't use?

Sorry, it's just something that winds me up... Things everybody knows and repeats that are completely untrue.

 

[BorderReiver]

Gregorach,just wander down Princes street(or any big town street) and you will see folks who could lose 9/10ths of their brain and no one would notice.

The modern thought seems to be that one action involves n regions of the brain and not just one specific part.Thus proving your point.

 

[bilko]

Plus after most of Europe was torn apart by religious civil war during and after the Reformation, a lot of people got sick of it. There's still plenty of religion over here - it's just most people tend to regard it more as a private matter.

On a completely different note, I see bilko's mentioned the old "we only use 1/10th of our brain" story... It's completely untrue, and actually has been around for a lot longer than we've had any idea of how the brain actually works. When was the last time you heard of somebody having a stroke, but being unaffected because it only damaged part of the 9/10ths of the brain you supposedly don't use?

Sorry, it's just something that winds me up... Things everybody knows and repeats that are completely untrue.

There we are then. That's something i will have to unlearn if as you say it isn't true
personaly iwouldn't let it wind you up though as there are far too many things to worry about in this world without the trivial stuff. Besides wer'e all kind of friends here ( i like to think ) and this is very much a learning site for a lot of people.
Anyway
It can be an emotive subject for a lot of people ( understatement of the year )

 

[bushtuckerman]

I'm a big fan of the Gaia hypothesis (in the "weak" form") from a scientific standpoint, but it's not "spiritual" for me. It's just a statement of ecological fact. But then I'm a pretty hardcore atheist...

Ditto, Gaia is the inspiration of a scientist. Perhaps not so hardcore as i used to be.

Chose option one. I never like to make up my mind about something, i'm too suspicious that i may be wrong

I love talking about God stuff

lol! isn't it a hot topic!

 

[Wayland]

On a completely different note, I see bilko's mentioned the old "we only use 1/10th of our brain" story... It's completely untrue, and actually has been around for a lot longer than we've had any idea of how the brain actually works. When was the last time you heard of somebody having a stroke, but being unaffected because it only damaged part of the 9/10ths of the brain you supposedly don't use?

If the human brain was simple enough for us to really understand, we would be too simple to understand it.

 

[bushtuckerman]

half the time i'm lucky to use more than 1% of my brain!

If the human brain was simple enough for us to really understand, we would be too simple to understand it.

It's funny because it's true! to quote a simpsons character.