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How Did Beliefs Come About?; Mans Search for Religion,Beliefes and Truths.
Topic Started: Saturday, 7. July 2012, 09:36 (153 Views)
tomais

I suggest- that all forms of beliefs began with the start of fire.
principally the domestic variety.
Them man/mankind would gather around this comfort zone-cook and chat.
There story telling began.There discussions and an intellectual hierarchy came to the fore.
As much time passed so the essentials of life were discussed; birth and death.
From the story telling comforts of the fire it all began to be told,to be remembered ,discussed and unfolded.
Discuss.
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tomais

For them read there-I blame TIAs so apologies start here-thankyou.At least with story telling spelling errors are not so noticable
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Angus Toanimo
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Sorry Tomais, but I haven't a clue what you're talking about.

I come on here to read posts and possibly take part in discussion, but I'm not into deciphering code.
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tomais

All knowledge and the seeds of all beliefs began with story telling around a fire; many many thousands of years ago.
Story telling and our inherant cerebral memory sticks have carried all ancient message iinto the then future.
I repeat the earliest discussions would be about and around birth and death with the horizons opening into where did we all come from and where do we go to.
These questions are very much with us today with many various answers; but it all began around a fire as they cooked,disputed planed their lives.
So all beliefs and religious practices came into being.
Bettre I suggest than simply to solely rely on Professor Higgsparticle,although it does have its place.
Finally,where was he when the ide emerged into his thought processes? Staring into a fire? He is old enough to have been warmed infront of one-.
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I think this is a chicken and egg thing. But I suspect that what our forebears did was gather round a fire and ask what is possibly one of the oldest questions in the universe, "Why are we here?" followed closely by "Where do we come from?" were these questions the result of an innate sense that we were created or was the question just a random thought?
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Rose of York
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The human spirit is so powerful it is natural to wonder where it came from, how it came, and if it existed before the body. I remember asking my mother, when I was a child "Where was I before I was born?"
Keep the Faith!

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Rose of York
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My imaginings:

Primitive people gathered round the fire asked who put the first berries, edible green leaves and roots, and animals and and birds, where they were. They asked who sent the water down from the sky and who put the sun and moon where they were. Whoever did it must be clever and powerful, we must not upset him/her/them.
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tomais

WEll imagined Rose- is that you imaginatively twined with Hestia- The Hearth Goddess?
Some where along the time scale writing was invented;then everything changed.
Moses was of course spoken to at first;then he was handed the written words.
The forst commandment begins-"Listen to me-;,not read this----.
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Rose of York
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tomais is complicating the obvious.
Keep the Faith!

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tomais

Normal me-
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OsullivanB

Usual you, anyway.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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paul

Man has been blessed with an enquiring mind, from the begining. Primitive man was probably more concerned with survival than other thoughts. Mankind has always required a Deity to worship.
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OsullivanB

and/or perhaps to placate/recruit?
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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