people anthropormorphise everything.
they give ships, cars, animals, toys names.
they give them human characteristics and talk to them as if they understand what is being said.
this is the same principle being given to the part of the mind that can experience a hightened state of awareness, delusion, dream state, meditation etc.
when something cannot be explained by natutral means, especially in the past, superstition filled in the gaps of our knowledge.
these ideas were soon followed by the exaggerated belief in one god. since god is an overstated myth and the only attributes he posseses are super-human and not supernatural, he has therefore been created by mans imagination and refferd to using human cahracteristics, such as, loving, jealous, vain, comforter, counselor, angry, etc.
this is then extended to superhuman traits including, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing, eternal, etc etc.
2007-07-19
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