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A few questions for the egg-heads out there
- Thread starter Phasmid
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Read Scott Atran
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
Read Joseph Campbell.
Gentoo
The Feisty Penguin
Francine
Well-Known Member
Because we find things which are rare to be beautiful. Gold, diamonds, a rainbow, the sun setting under a thundercloud, a canyon which is a mile deep, a comet which can impact the Earth and kill everyone.
The world is beautiful because that is how we perceive it to be, the human mind likes that which is symmetrical as is our natural world.
Religion and belief has been a big part of the human experience because it has served as a way to answer that which we could not answer. I believe in the future religion will be replaced by philosophy if religion does not destroy us first.
Religion and belief has been a big part of the human experience because it has served as a way to answer that which we could not answer. I believe in the future religion will be replaced by philosophy if religion does not destroy us first.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
If I had a mouth I could tell you.
Francine
Well-Known Member
Bravo!
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Read Walt Whitman.
kadzbiz
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Firstly welcome to the forums. I hope you enjoy your stay.
Secondly, the questions are simple, but the answers are not. The reasons people are giving just names is because those writers have put the answer you seek in such wonderful ways that can't be simply written here.
For a simple answer, ask a simple man.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
The two may be connected.
The world is beautiful because it is also ugly. From Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, Derek Lin translation,
"When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises
When it knows good as good, evil arises
Thus being and non-being produce each other."
Accurate Translation of the Tao Te Ching
Part of the religious experience is the perception of beauty. Art is inextricably a part of religion. And art is aesthetic.
If you're looking for a simplistic summary of Atran's work, you won't get one from me. Last time I saw an adequate summary of his work, the summary ran 11 pages. Best to do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of his book, "In Gods We Trust". So what if Atran takes more effort to understand than it takes to read the back of a cereal box? His ideas are worth it.
Phasmid
Mr Invisible
I'll look into it.
methylatedghosts
Can't brain. Has dumb.
Why is the world beautiful? Because else it would be ugly. And who really wants to look at ugly stuff? I'd rather look and see beauty.
methylatedghosts
Can't brain. Has dumb.
I disagree. I'm not sheltered by any stretch of the imagination.
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
1) beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I personally find Acorn Worms to be icky.
2) The evidence of spiritual thinking predates humanity. Neanderthals buried their dead and cared for the sick. Even earlier hominids have evidence of 'humanity'.
We inherited it from our ancestors... the mind that thinks abstract thoughts can think of lots of fun ideas.
wa:do
2) The evidence of spiritual thinking predates humanity. Neanderthals buried their dead and cared for the sick. Even earlier hominids have evidence of 'humanity'.
We inherited it from our ancestors... the mind that thinks abstract thoughts can think of lots of fun ideas.
wa:do
logician
Well-Known Member
Then you must agree that some things in this world are not beautiful - man's inhumanity against man for one.