Number 1 problem in the world today?

[Bella Michela]

Our economy, inflation

 

[Robert Jan]

war
hunger
disease
hatred
etc

and small dicks too
In fact I think small dicks indirectly cause a big part of the problems in the world

 

[biteme]

people

 

[wutangnomo]

cool. a good ZING is needed around here from time to time.

I would have to ask you to explain this further. Seems to me, from a cursory review of history, that the unexplainable has always been the realm of the supernatural (whether every living thing had a "spirit" as anicent pagans believed. or there is one God like the Jews believed and then others followed).

Man's inability to understand has created the supernatural. For example, the question "What happens after death?" has led to more specualtion and creation of mythology than anything. And why? it is the ultimate unanaswerable question.

In ancient times, people who had seizures or something similar were "possessed by demons". Science has eliminated demons from the teachings of most medical books (except in Haitian Santeria practitioners )

How about the nonsensical phrase "God works in mysterious ways?" WTF is that?

It is not merely the big 3 religions that have a stranglehold on the supernatural. Buddhists have supernaturalized karma (long before George Spellwin did) because karma is basically "chance" and chance cannot be explained scientifically. Hinduism - I don't know it that well, but it has about a billion adherents.

My general point is, the thought process spurred by the supernatural has always one of inventing answers to the unknown, rather than knowing it. How can this help?

OK, but the root cause of ignorance seems to be a subscription to a belief in the supernatural, which, as i stated (or tried to) above, precludes understanding.

I agree that the unexplainable usually touches upon the realm of the supernatural; however, it is this "unexplainable" that is the basis for advancement in thinking and thus, the quest for knowledge (which leads to innovations and breakthroughs). One can argue that space travel lays its roots in the very belief of a supernatural realm that exists beyond the skies. The Chinese in the BC period once believed an emperor fastened to a rocket-laden chair would be propelled to the heavens. This evolution of rockets ultimately led to space travel. Also, ancient Eqyptians were notorious for their mythology, and spawned from this civilization so heavily vested in supernatural beliefs came arithmetic, hieroglyphics, papyrus, calendar year, pyramids, etc all of which have a direct influence on modern civilization. All these creations lay part, if not all, of their roots in a supernatural reference... pyramids designed to transpose kings and queens to the afterlife, calendar year based on the observance of the sun, moon, stars, and heavens, etc.

You mention that man's inability to understand has created the supernatural, but what do you attest his inability to be a result of? Man's inability to understand can be correlated to his ignorance. The end result of his ignorance is a creation of the supernatural. For instance, I ACCEPT that there exists a supernatural realm, but I also know that I cannot answers those questions associated with it (I am an agnostic you can say). Acceptance and failure or refusal to accept (which is based on ignorance) is the difference to what leads to problems and what does not.

Essentially what we're debating is what came first, the chicken or the egg? In a manner of speaking I believe that the belief in the supernatural is ignorance in itself.

 

[randk]

undefined small dicks too
In fact I think small dicks indirectly cause a big part of the problems in the world[/QUOTE]
I think you may be on to something there...

 

[wootoom]

Greed and AIDS

 

[superqt4u2nv]

Fuckers that don't know how to drive and grid lock traffic.

 

[rsnoble-im-back]

religion