survival and self consciousness?

Question

The advent of Religion and God happened when self consciousness dawned upon human beings about 80.000 years ago. Religion was invented by our ancestors as a tool to curb human hysteria of fear and death.
afterall dident paul Tillich call it the 'trauma of been self conscious"? To live with the reality that we are going to become extinct is something that no one can accept.
but why hold on to something which makes no sense at all such as religion?
why cant we humans accept reality about our death and total extinction and work towards a better world filled with love and peace?

Answer 1

oh, but we can.. we have had all the tools for the past 20 years

Answer 2

You don't make sense Darlin! The advent of God? There was no advent of God. God is the creator, the Alpha and the Omega. Before God began creating, there were no humans to be conscious.

Most people do accept the reality of our death. Death is a fact of life, but you are right about one thing; we should all work towards a better world filled with love and peace and as you will see on this site, there is too much hatred and discrimination in our world today.

Answer 3

The real issue here is the ‘self’. Religion can be used in two ways: 1) to define a virtual reality for the ‘self’ or 2) to be used as a path for seeing the illusory nature of the self. The former use defines a whole belief and value system and, in many cases, allows for the continuation of the self after the body’s death. This ‘manufacture of meaning’ mechanism, of course, is not confined to religion – secular value and belief systems (e.g. war hero mythologies; definitions of what it means to live a purposeful life, etc.) are constantly being adopted. This is important to see – that many of us adopt a religious belief system to deal with things that scare our ‘self’ but others adopt secular concepts that still maintain the existence of this self as real – an atheistic thought system still maintains the fundamental existence of this ‘self’ (most of us don’t question this). So, while we may think that we’re not engaging in the same dynamic as our brothers who have adopted a belief system to deal with the realization of self-extinction associated with the evolutionarily advantageous development of consciousness, as long as we maintain a concept of our selves, we’re in the same boat. We deal with life as if the self is a real thing. The other path – whether it’s in a religious or non-religious context – seeks to go beyond all concepts (beyond eternalism [self lives forever as a soul], beyond nihilism [self gets extinguished at death]) and have an experience where this self literally drops away (once this self drops away, all concepts are gone and questions such as life, death, birth, soul, afterlife, etc. all go away). Although Zen is typically the most famous avenue for cultivating this experience, other paths (religious and non-religious) do, too. And, some modern psychologists are now speaking on how this self is an illusory construct (of course, ‘what’ makes the self becomes a natural Zen koan).

Answer 4

there is evolution interior the actual and there is evolution interior the spirit. The ideas'S have been prepare and all of us have 2 ideas in basic terms because of the fact the actual physique has 2 brains ( ( double minded ). We did no longer get good judgment with understanding and Ignorence with emotion and ( Self or Soul ) that's how we reason. A Soul became defined by ability of Jesus as a bowl, each little thing you study or heard is saved interior the Soul. once you're thinking you're chatting with your self (Soul) for that's like a storage section. regardless of you put in there you get out of it, in case you put in solid issues then you definitely gets the solid issues back, yet once you put in evil issues then you definitely evil issues back. bear in ideas a Soul became no longer created yet became some thing given.

Answer 5

Your religion is popular ahmed, but it's a religion the same as any other, your god is self, it's that simple. How did you travel back 80,000 years to investigate this, do you have a time travel machine in your basement.

Answer 6

Some can, others use religion to guide them, and religion takes advantage of the fear in some to control the weak.

Answer 7

Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, it's a great idea. It was with the Sumerians that the early temples were found, and it was 3200 - 2334 BCE.

Answer 8

You say all this as if it's fact. I believe real reality is knowing you know almost nothing

Answer 9

Sounds like a good plan to me.