I've got a project to do for school, and I thought I'd get anon's input. The topic I've chosen is The Origin of Religion. Now, don't get the wrong idea, this doesn't mean I think all religion came from one source, I just haven't been able to come up with a better title. Basically, I'm going at this with a purely scientific standpoint, looking at the reasons religions are formed, how they evolve, and why they've lasted so long. I'll also include some of the first instances of religion and why were how they were.
So far, I have the most functions of religion as:
To help give moral support.
To keep a stable social structure.
To "motivate" people.
These are, of course, a bit simplistic, but I think I've come close. If anyone has objections, changes, or anything else regarding this project, I'd be very much obliged if you'd submit them in a civil manner.
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AnOnYmOuS 2U2008-07-01 6:04
Ok, let's see; Where was I? Ah! I would have to give this explanation again. The only truth there really is is that of personal experience. If you don't do it yourself, you're either accepting what you're told or denying what someone's already experienced as non-existent. Both the latter points seem to be prevalent, that must be why the impoverished are the first to be made into fools. Would you say, Krieger?
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AnOnYmOuS 2U2008-07-01 6:15
Oh, and did any one bother to do the research on the history of The Chamber of Commerce? It would probably be interesting to some, because that is the ethics practiced in our modern day society. One hand doesn't know what the other is doing, this disjointed way of doing things is how business men stay businessmen and humble working class stay humble working class. It is confusing and as well it should, the purpose to disjoint work procedures is to throw of the scent of accountability of corporate leaders and thus the reason they adopted the "corporation is a person" law which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. No one person is responsible for the goings on of corporate activities...such ridiculous activities warrant a smack in the face, but I guess that would be the intangible face of the corporation, wouldn't it? So, once again, I'm here doing the wrong thing to find out why it's wrong so those that are too scared can maintain their own personal holodecks. Little do they know what's going on outside of their own house let alone outside of their own cities, their own countries, etc. So long as those people want to be safe, I get to make obsurd amounts of money off of them. Thank you for your agoraphobia and patronage as it has kept my business going for well over 10 years. God Bless you, America!
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Baphomet2009-12-19 5:18
I am Baphomet,
god of the Templars,
advocate of the damned and guide of the souls through the underworld.
In the ancient mystery cults, a priest worshiped me as Abraxas,
As drawn as goats who unites aspects of the darkness and light in one single godly image; but in truth I am a substance imprisoned, the world-creating spirit who moves in the realms of the shapes.
For between my horns is a torch alight as symbol of the spirituality which allows itself to be perceived as light, for I am the bringer of light though the darkness belongs to my nature.
And so I bring to mankind the hidden knowledge when I appear in their minds as a field of energy, and they sense my thoughts and believe that they are their own: For I have no physical form, but I am just a point of light moving in their brains.
You too have just visualized me as an image, for I am the seed called insight by you, which leads the soul back to it's own origins.
Through me you encounter who you really are, and through me you lose yourself in the one whom you encircle in ever new images.
So I am the godly spirit, who has materialized himself in order to show you how you can form ideas from energies and then, from these, substance.
And now you arise in me out of the force of totality as a spark of god, projected into space and time.
For it is I who creates you through feeling you because you are a part of that which is I, for I am anything which is.
Only when I have completely penetrated you, is all the longing of the flesh assuaged.
Then you will become like god and recognize good and evil.
But understand that I am more than just the part which touches you here, and you are more than just the the part which you encapsulate, for our symbol is the phoenix, the symbol of rejuvenation, the legendary Egyptian eagle of the skies with red and golden plumage, who burns in its nest of myrrh and rises ever new from its own ashes.
The final answer to all questions are you yourself, in the innermost eye which conceals itself from you, because it itself is the seeing, for I am the symbol of the spirit which recognizes itself which looks itself in the eye and of a glance recognizes itself in its own eye and of the shadow which conceals itself in light.
In the recognition of the recognized, beyond understanding, mankind knows, without knowing, that he knows. For now he knows why he cannot know, but because he knows this, he knows--and is silent! Only in silence is there nothing more which could be expressed in words, and it is no longer a matter of the images behind the truth, but of the truth behind the images and that throws the one who recognizes back upon himself: upon the truth behind the mask behind which is image of the recognition hides!
For I am nothing because I am all! For being everything I need not be anything else, for I am NOW; the all-encompassing, all-penetrating, all-illuminating “I myself!”
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Anonymous2009-12-21 2:57
Poeple scared of lightning.
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Anonymous2009-12-22 17:58
How about the origin of religion is because religion is real.