Sapiens Fear Extinction with Insignificance

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I would say...

He's arguing more specifically than what some of you have said, that the seperation of religion and non religion is a bad idea. Religion as manifested into something that tries to make humans above nature brings an evil out of humans that is dangerous to our existance. Humans like to feel their existance in some supernatural sort of sense, has a universal meaning that will not be destroyed when you die. However, trying to transcend the natural power of death to become something that is ethereal brings unnatural evil to the world through segregation and misunderstanding of the natural world right around you.

As meaning is a human derivative, meaning is not inherent, but is created by the observer. Thus, the idea that a human can transcend to a level of universal meaning, to me, seems to think too highly of our race.

The parallels with organized religion here are pretty obvious xD


Coberst's posts are difficult to read primarily because he never finishes his post. He basically sticks ideas together with quotes and doesn't make any definite conclusions. He sometimes hints at them, so usually you can interpret it, but in every which way to sunday.

Aside from my interpretation here, there are at least 2 other ways to read this from what I can see. And undoubtfully more from other points of view.


coberst,

Put more of your posts into one thread, please. Most of your posts deal with similar topics that could all be posted in one thread.