So I addressed that people such as Jesus, Muhammed, the Brahmins, Buddha etc. is to "control" other people. They want to guide others people lives and help them improve the world. mean u never see a religion saying to start killing everyone, no not even Islam.
So does this make a religion a religion or just another philosophy? Each religion, at its core is a philosophy on how to live ur lofe and behave. The gods, heven and hell, etc. are just ways of spicing up the philosophy to make it appealing to regular folks who can't/couldn't think at the level of the philosophers. They help people relate to the ideas, especially the stories.
Now not all of the religions are philosophy. Take the Greek religion for example. It has a lot of gods and stories, but most of them are just there for entertainment and fail to teach a person a lotof things on how to run his/her life. Infact, the religion was created as a reason for people's sins. If the gods act bad, then so can we. Perhaps that's why there were so many greek "philosophers". They didn't have any moral support and published their own individual ideas as a kind of replacement religion. There were philosopphers in all the other religins but they ended up beeing seen as saints, etc. bcause of their involvement in religion.
Also, I believe that all of those , words form god etc. were just people going off and THINKING. I have had a lot of similar thoughts to the prophets and maybe a God put the idea in my head, but it came about from thinking. I mean, it is said that Muhammed had contacted God in the cave where he usually went to think Buddhism says that the way to god s through meditation. Meditation is t clear your mind. When I do that, many new ideas and thoughts like these come into my head so it was meditation which lead to the thinking that lead buddha to his 8 fold path.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Religion: Controller
Religion is a controler
In my opinion the original purpose of all religions was to "control" people's lives in order to make it and the world a better lace. One of my favorite examples of this is hinduism (probably because being hindu, i know the most about it) There is a common misconception that hindu's don't eat cows because of some random god. Of course that is the religious reason but for me there is a much better reason. Back when hinduism was still developing, cows were a very important farm animal and provided people with many things such as power to plow the farms, pull the waterwheel, the cow chips were used for fuel and making huts. Also, the cows provided milk. All of this added up to a lot from one cow. The problem was that when people ate the cows, they lost all of these things that a cow could offer in exchange for only meat. That's where hinduism stepped in and decided to stop killing its cows. Of course they couldn't just say these facts and expect people to follow it. I mean how many of us follow what the facts tell us from science. Instead, they used religious stories as propaganda for not eating beef. People were more concerned about the religious aspect and so they didn't eat cows.
There are countless examples of this in a lot of religions. For example, all of the rayers in Hinduism are to involve all of the lower class in religion and learning, I have already talked about the caste system, also the meditation and the yoga, especially those to the sun gods, are to keep people in shape and make them exercise before breakfast as they are supposed to be done 1st thing. The mass religious events are social gatherings and used as oppurtunities to meet up with other people.
Even in christianity Islam and Judaism there are many examples of control. All three holy books help promote literacy among everyone. the Adam and Eve story is to encourage women not to have have sex......(think about the snake). THe mass at church is to socialize again. Islam ≠ idols becuase bedouin farmers couldn't really afford them (still rough theory). The list goes on and on. I will add to it as I think of new ones.
In my opinion the original purpose of all religions was to "control" people's lives in order to make it and the world a better lace. One of my favorite examples of this is hinduism (probably because being hindu, i know the most about it) There is a common misconception that hindu's don't eat cows because of some random god. Of course that is the religious reason but for me there is a much better reason. Back when hinduism was still developing, cows were a very important farm animal and provided people with many things such as power to plow the farms, pull the waterwheel, the cow chips were used for fuel and making huts. Also, the cows provided milk. All of this added up to a lot from one cow. The problem was that when people ate the cows, they lost all of these things that a cow could offer in exchange for only meat. That's where hinduism stepped in and decided to stop killing its cows. Of course they couldn't just say these facts and expect people to follow it. I mean how many of us follow what the facts tell us from science. Instead, they used religious stories as propaganda for not eating beef. People were more concerned about the religious aspect and so they didn't eat cows.
There are countless examples of this in a lot of religions. For example, all of the rayers in Hinduism are to involve all of the lower class in religion and learning, I have already talked about the caste system, also the meditation and the yoga, especially those to the sun gods, are to keep people in shape and make them exercise before breakfast as they are supposed to be done 1st thing. The mass religious events are social gatherings and used as oppurtunities to meet up with other people.
Even in christianity Islam and Judaism there are many examples of control. All three holy books help promote literacy among everyone. the Adam and Eve story is to encourage women not to have have sex......(think about the snake). THe mass at church is to socialize again. Islam ≠ idols becuase bedouin farmers couldn't really afford them (still rough theory). The list goes on and on. I will add to it as I think of new ones.
Brain = Superfast thinking
I was sitting in our school bus the other day when A kid who was coming up along the aisle. He is a list of all the thoughts that occurred to me as he came along the aisle and sat down in the seat behind me in the order I think they occurred
The brain really thinks fast and I think that the thoughts were in english but I can't be too sure. Maybe the memory is i english...... or not. Like I know that a lot of things like site taste and smell are often not in a language but I wonder of these types of thouhts are as well.
Anyway, it took me around 12 secs to say the thoguht process out loud so i guess that proves that my brain can multi/think or think thoughts very fast. The funny thing is that I remeber ech though in the same speed as I say it out loud although it was much faster. Interesting thing to think about.....
- The bus is pretty full, I wonder where he is going to sit
- I think he might sit in th back row He has sat there before
- Ok here he comes
- Wait, why the heck did he touch me?
- Maybe it was an accident
- He probably did it by accident
- man this kid smells
- smell = indian food / did he put on deo?
- Why did I think the smell=indian food. I'm Indian!
- maybe the kid ate indian food ast night
The brain really thinks fast and I think that the thoughts were in english but I can't be too sure. Maybe the memory is i english...... or not. Like I know that a lot of things like site taste and smell are often not in a language but I wonder of these types of thouhts are as well.
Anyway, it took me around 12 secs to say the thoguht process out loud so i guess that proves that my brain can multi/think or think thoughts very fast. The funny thing is that I remeber ech though in the same speed as I say it out loud although it was much faster. Interesting thing to think about.....
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