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Re: The Modern Myth [Re: Ego Death]
#7439929 - 09/22/07 10:05 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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We are evolving, we come from monkeys to cavemen to Neanderthal. We are certainly getting more intelligent, our brains more intelligent every generation.
Neanderthals are not our ancestors, but an extinct side branch. They had a larger cranial capacity than Homo Sapiens.
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Re: The Modern Myth [Re: Veritas]
#7440049 - 09/22/07 10:49 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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You are myth-taken as I rarely type in the nude.
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Veritas

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Rarely is more often than never.
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Re: The Modern Myth [Re: Icelander]
#7442152 - 09/22/07 11:06 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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fireworks_god said: Coupling that definition with the word g*d, even if the word is to mean no more than what it has been pronounced to, may only lead to ambiguity, as others, with their own conceptions, will confuse and associate other meaning, or conscious lack thereof.
Fair enough. I like what you had to say. 
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Icelander said: Programs ARE the personality. It's most likely a function of complexity. I think there are countless examples of something better coming from something lesser. You didn't ponder much before that statement I guess. And there is nothing "obvious" about any Supreme Entity, especially a strong case for it's existence.
Well, I agree that personalities are complex, the only difference between them's and programs that I can figure is that we can totally figure programs out... personalities, as far as we can tell, we cannot.
And, you may believe that greater things can come from lesser things, but it's a philosophical conjecture, and I cannot honestly agree with that statement. You may say that lightning came from tiny electrons being configured in the right way at the right time, etc, etc, but to me the lightning doesn't necessarily originate from electrons, but has an existence in and of itself. And that viewpoint is philosophical, one that science cannot touch. Mostly what I'm reaching for is a unifying force to all things, and if personality is one of its products (not as mere parts but as a unified whole) then it must itself have a personality. But that would take too long to discuss, and I was hoping to at least reach the possibility of agreement that this Tao or Universal at least resembles a personality like our own. Maybe not. 
Anyway, you may not agree that there's a Supreme Being, but I figured that you would at least agree that if there was, it would not be a mere human (if you thought the comic you linked had anything to say beyond its jokes).
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 "To believe in the wide-awake real, through all the stupefying, enervating, distorting dream: to will to wake, when the very being seems athirst for godless repose: these are the broken steps up to the high fields where repose is but a form of strength, strength but a form of joy, joy but a form of love." -George MacDonald
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Its interesting to contemplate the actual weight mythology carries in the make up of the collective psyche. I feel that the stories seeded the modern personality to some extent. And that the archetypal energies produced by the beliefs are real and can be experienced to some degree. Or that the natural energies correspond to mythology due to a projection of your own 'stuff' onto a fitting model. Most modern stories cling to a previously crafted backbone of myth. In this way, I feel that modern entertainment is poking you through the veil and driving your ship. The hero's journey is a big one, IMO.
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