Imagine doing a Turing Test on social media platforms: try to have a conversation with the hiveminds and see to which degree they achieve coherence and intelligibility.
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Ancient Greeks apparently had individual relationships with their gods or some of them anyway. Also there were Moirai. From my best understanding their idea of genius was *according with your destiny* - fufulling it. But that could be just J Campbell crap.
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I think that Greek gods were quite clearly superhero cartoons, not sources or meaning and norms. The later interpretation as religion took place in a culture that could no longer think outside of its Christian cult.
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I'm not sure if I can agree on that. The soul is not a Judeo-Christian property. You can find this idea of a soul in early humans (stone age) and also today in indigenous tribes in different variation. I think of it as a way to deal with mortality. And that's basic human nature.
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The Greeks and Romans did not have it. We don't really know about most stone age cultures, and our ideas of them have been filtered through a world view that was forged by Christianity and still has dualism as the null hypothesis.
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