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And unfortunately, are you still Practicing it. If you have to make a contribution convey it through some logic and right words.Quote:
Originally posted by nigel123@26 July 2003 - 00:38
After reading all your posts, I have come to the conclusion, that the oldest religion in the world, is IGNORANCE.
http://www.thirdage.com/news/feature.../news.yawn.jpg repetition makes me sleepyQuote:
Originally posted by tralalala@25 July 2003 - 18:27
Judaism is the oldest religion which is still practiced (5700 years).
tralalala
Iam, therefore I am, I think.....
And unfortunately, are you still Practicing it. If you have to make a contribution convey it through some logic and right words.[/b][/quote]Quote:
Originally posted by I.am+26 July 2003 - 08:48--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (I.am @ 26 July 2003 - 08:48)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-nigel123@26 July 2003 - 00:38
After reading all your posts, I have come to the conclusion, that the oldest religion in the world, is IGNORANCE.
Gladly, though it will take a little time, which at this moment, I don't have much of. There are 12 links, the first being ïgnorance. When we talk about ignorance, there is a puzzle to be solved; the puzzle of creation."Many people have asked the question, "how could it have ever begun?" Here over there is a lot to be said. It's the illusion of ego which is the beginning, the very source of the 12 links of interdependence, The first of these links is ignorance; ignorance in the sense of not seeing, not knowing, the "as-it-isness." That is the beginning of everything. That which is not "I" is held as "I." Since there is no "I" then there is no "mine," yet we believe in "I" and "mine",
The second link will have to wait as the kids are demanding attention!
I think, therefore I am, I think
Religion can only be as old, as how long humans have been on earth, because humans created religion, if you investigate any culture that is living, dead or extinct on earth you'll find they have/had some sort of religion they invented to explain what they could not.
Gods/God do not exist they are dreamed up by Humans to control, comfort and explain there existence to themselves. :D
Interesting, then, how (almost) every religion, both current and non, tend to have the same parables, the same gods, the same basis, and in some instances, the same pictoral representations, if you strip them down. There's some very interesting parallels between what we know of the Aztecs and Mayans and what we know of the Egyptians.
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Gods/God do not exist they are dreamed up by Humans to control, comfort and explain there existence to themselves.
Prove it. :P
"I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
Isaac Asimov
Ignorance continued: Everything stems from that point-ignorance. When did it happen?-always, each and every second.(Yes it's that bad Iam) Whatever is a pleasant illusion for the 'I,' we seek. Whatever is an unpleasant illusion, we try to escape or avoid. In this way all kinds of subsequent situations, the extension of our present existense, are created for us to experience later as results. This is the reason why I say ignorance was the first religion. Ignorance is a vacuum waiting to be filled. It was filled with fear as Hobbes pointed out. Then the necessity arose to combat fear. Then God was created.
I shall continue later..................................
So we use delusions to fill our illusions of a vacuum of ignorance ?Quote:
Originally posted by nigel123@26 July 2003 - 13:37
Ingnorance continued: Everything stems from that point-ignorance. When did it happen?-always, each and every second.(Yes it's that bad Iam) Whatever is a pleasant illusion for the 'I,' we seek. Whatever is an unpleasant illusion, we try to escape or avoid. In this way all kinds of subsequent situations, the extension of our present existense, are created for us to experience later as results. This is the reason why I say ignorance was the first religion. Ingnorance is a vacuum waiting to be filled. It was filled with fear as Hobbes pointed out. Then the necessity arose to combat fear. Then God was created.
I shall continue later..................................