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Quote by: Sonart I think we're in an intellectual state most of the time... we have to be. We have to remain intellectually focused to survive in a dangerous, competitive world. All the radar's on; sight, sound, taste, our minds, all taking care of business. |
I agree. These are the individuating forces that compell us to follow our own, necessarily deluded world view. I think things are not as dangerous or competative as we are lead to believe.
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It's through ritual -- liturgy, chanting or singing, sometimes dance, prayer or meditation -- that we shed the intellectual concious into a state where the information from our senses is meaningless, where thought is banished. Rapture, Nivana, whatever you want to call it, you enter a conciousness beyond your own mind and body.
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Again, i agree. This is how things used to be for everyone operating in a viable community, as i see it. Doing good work; putting yourself into what you do for the sake of neighbor or king, perhaps.
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Some would call it being one with God. I think of it as an evolutionary survival mechanism.
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Why can't it be both? If the wages of sin is death; what, then, would be the best evolutionary survival mechanism?