Children the world over:
"Children the world over have a strong natural receptivity to believing in gods because of the way their minds work, and this early developing receptivity continues to anchor our intuitive thinking throughout life," says anthropologist Justin Barrett of the University of Oxford.New Scientist
So how does the brain conjure up gods? One of the key factors, says Bloom, is the fact that our brains have separate cognitive systems for dealing with living things - things with minds, or at least volition - and inanimate objects.Born believers: How your brain creates God
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Preparatory to something with more bite to it, and substance too, this little bit of meditation. A certain segment of the rational consensus population has taken to ridiculing their less thoughtful brethren as believers in a "sky-god". This is a default kind of rejection, as it points up the dreariness of hope so cartoonishly focused virtually nowhere. Cargo-cult/sky-god believers. Like that.
But is it nowhere? It seems pretty obvious that anything that exists outside of the terrestrial skin we occupy has to be perforce either under the ground, down where the fire at the heart of the earth is burning, or "up" in the sky.
Given that the sky is pretty much everything that isn't either earth or inside the earth. Large territory that.
Most discussion of extra-terrestrial life centers on the anthropomorphic parallels. Planets like ours with beings like us on them.
Science has no problem with that. Because science could potentially kick their asses, or kiss their asses, without having to fundamentally change the basic posture science brings to the whole idea - arrogance, solipsistic delusion, Xenic partiality, blindness just a little more sighted than the common run that confers priestly elevation, etc.
The possibility of some kind of life that would incorporate the entire known universe, and occupy an as yet unknown even larger universe - a little sketchy and a silly waste of time because our instruments show us nothing that would indicate...
That there are likely to be universes inside universes and outside universes, as well as parallel as well as infinitely small as well as, well there you have it.
We're in the middle of something that either stops abruptly just past the ever-expanding horizon of our ability to see things, or it keeps going, forever. It's obviously a kind of rational autism that keeps the idea of a limited universe floating. Limited by human abilities to perceive and to conceive.
But explaining autism to the autistic is a massive undertaking, thankless due to the resistance in this case which is vicious and powerful all by itself, but especially when they're controlling a lot of the informational conduits that would nominally carry that explanation. Oh we're all free to type whatever we want in these little boxes, but the main arena's like Vegas, you got to know somebody, you got to pay your dues, you got to get sponsored, etc.
My complaint is that people who can see the scams and sucking parasitic attachments on virtually everything humans are doing can't seem to get to the idea that in between themselves and whatever sky-god, or meta-universal meta-humanoidal whatever whatever is out there - there may well be some kind of equivalent, spiritual parasites happening. In between, because that's where the easy feed is. So the two polarized camps antagonize and cement each other in their ignorance and nasty rejection of each other and especially - everything in between. Which is where the truth is.
The false polarities that have been so heavily reinforced lately, centered around abortion, centered around Israel, centered around gay rights, centered around evolution, centered around a lot of things that can only be really accurately seen with nuanced and detailed observation, these polarities keep people in the dark. Possibly that's the whole purpose? Not to get to the truth and defend it, but to prevent people getting to the truth?
The dark - also a pet project of mine. That we were all raised to think of the universe as this dark place with these tiny little lights here and there in it, when clearly the universe - our universe anyway, the one we can see with the naked eye etc - is filled with light.
Any starlight that reaches us must also reach everything around us, and everything on the opposite side of that star we see, and by that obviously all around it, and by that everywhere - light.
So there you go.
I'm being eaten alive by parasites while I write this, everything I write or do online now is degraded and brought low by the presence of parasites, attached to it, observing it, gratifying themselves on the security of the power that enables them doing it.
So I'm real reluctant to do any soul-baring, in fact am not, will not. Just a little dance between the fangs and grinding molars of whatever that is, with all these little sucking insects hanging off me.
Sky-god, can you hear me?
I want to leave now, soon please.
