and so it quickly became evident in the wake of our inability to adequately "deal" with the complexities of human emotion (our own or others) - you know, all those emotions that of all mammals, man seems most adept at becoming consumed with: lust, greed, envy, anger, blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth- that SOMETHING needed to be done.
Not soon after the beginning of memories, man created that which would aleviate his deepest unresolved pain by offering its supreme forgiveness in the face of no other form of forgiveness, when man couldn't even begin to forgive himself.
It was in this pause, in this space of peaceful, forgiven-clarity, and given that man had curtailed his emotional urges long enough, he discovered by defining and minding certain supreme laws he could avoid emotional upheavals all together.
Life became so much nicer.
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you're awesome!!!
you RULE!!!
I've often wondered, through out the years, why mankind was driven so strongly to come up with a "god" concept.
This is probably the best articulated theory that I've come across.
I'm sure the extension of such into the rules provided by organized religion had more to do with the latent drives for structure, control and power that we have in our makeup than most any other motive. Altho' many have dedicated their lives and intellectual energies to a pure study of what "god" is all about, the reality of such seems to have been very much captured by other's with more immediate goals.
P.S. I'm not a fan of organized religion, in case you were wondering .....
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