Relistening to The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience series of lectures. It's fascinating but I question one assumption.
If someone discovers my dog's remains buried with his favourite toy & blanket & assumes I thought he was going somewhere, they'd be wrong.
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The fact that ppl who do believe in an afterlife & ppl who don't both dress their dead smartly & bury them with tokens suggests more to this
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We have to question why they do it when they don't believe in an afterlife. I don't think we would do it without the influence of society.
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But you would bury him that way because of your existence in a society that has a historical influence on you.
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Quite possibly. Also a natural instinct to tend. Not a belief in an afterlife. That is my point. Why are we at such cross-purposes?
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I thought we were discussing an interesting point. I didn't know this was adversarial. If so, sorry. I'll leave it.
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Not adversarial. Just misunderstanding what I am and am not saying & I haven't been able to clear that up.
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Aren't you saying that we can't assume Neand believed in an afterlife because we currently do similar things without believing in afterlife?
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No. Just that isn't necessarily evidence of it. Can we leave it please? I'm so bored now.
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Sorry for boring you. Goodbye.
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You may have changed the reasons you would do that, but you can't get away from the society you grew up in & its affect on you.
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Why do you think I'm trying to? Can we leave it? You're just telling me this doesn't mean things I haven't claimed it means.
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Would you do that if you hadn't grown up in a society where those actions have some significance?
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I don't know. How is this relevant? I'm going to leave it here.
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