On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:06:55 -0500, Paul Bramscher
<brams006_nospam at tc.umn.edu> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
>> rick++ wrote:
>>>>> This week's Time magazine reviews the new book "The God Gene".
>>> It takes the materialistic view that transcendental feelings
>>> have an evolutionary biology role as a community-enhancing survival
>>> trait.
>>> One could equally take the opposing view that there is a spiritual
>>> reality
>>> out there and life has developed rudimentary senses to perceive it.
>>>>>> Sure, but why would life do that? Other living things get along just
>> fine without any awareness of a spiritual reality. By contrast, humans
>> have a propensity to kill each other in disputes about the nature of
>> spiritual reality (more precisely, they kill each other over
>> disagreements about the correct ways to talk about it.) If that's what
>> awareness of spiritual reality leads to, I earnestly pray to it to make
>> itself unavailable to whatever sense is supposedly aware of it.
>>It had to be said -- you beat me to it.
>>One look at human history since ancient Sumeria casts an ill omen on any
>spiritual propensity among us. Indeed, crusades, genocides, bigotries,
>and the like might be nature's way of weeding "spirituality" out, rather
>than in. Spirituality has been connected to financial power, political
>hierarchy, and warfare since at least ancient Sumer. The only sort of
>spirituality which seems to survive in the face of this is a carnivorous
>sort, a subversive/oppressed sort, or none at all.
Still doesn't mean it isn't there. Just means you don't know what if
anything spiritual propensity means.
Regards - Lester
