[Mind's Eye] Re: Raison d'etre - can we find one

TS - amaizingly enough, I think you are very near the Truth here....

On Mar 31, 8:23 am, the taoist shaman <bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> perhaps there was  a time when there was no need of prophets because
> virtue was inate , perhaps " the fruit of the knowledge of good and
> evil " opened a part of the brain that opened the eyes of man and he
> saw he was naked  and separated from nature and there for god , god
> then needed to comunicate w-man through man , to bring him back to
> unity w-god , as we origonaly were
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> leerevdoug...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > A THOUGHT + Why did God wait until we brains had already stuffed up
> > before he sent his prophets to help us out.
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> > Pehraps God did not, perhaps even the cavmen had their prohpets?
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> > On Mar 31, 7:07 am, malcymo <malc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If I understand Dawkins and Dennett correctly we can probably deduce
> > > that previous to being convinced that Darwin had indeed developed a
> > > convincing explanation showing that it is possible to create sentient,
> > > rational beings from inanimate beginnings it was probably impossible
> > > for anyone to not be a theist of some sort. Now that atheism is
> > > rationally valid, to replace the goodness of God,it can be held that
> > > its creed must provide consolation and meaning to life in order to
> > > stave off despair without recourse to a supreme being other than the
> > > universe itself. That is, for the theists of the world  to retain hope
> > > and faith in their existence. For me, I find it easy to delude myself
> > > that not only is religion to do with faith and hope which it fulfils
> > > admirably but that it is also to do with truth. Clearly a trap that I
> > > must avoid in order to empathise with believers.
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> > > Hence my initial post - To geet a handle on some replacement for many
> > > years of blind faith.
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> > > Thanks for your contributions. If you have any more keep them coming.
> > > I am all ears.
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> > > A THOUGHT + Why did God wait until we brains had already stuffed up
> > > before he sent his prophets to help us out.- Hide quoted text -
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