We Are So Proud Of Ourselves---Why?

Started by Solitary, July 25, 2013, 01:12:05 PM

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AllPurposeAtheist

My dad, when I would ask for rides would inform me it ain't crowded walking out there. The same more or less applies. If you want to go live in small groups in remote areas it's not crowded out there. True there are fewer and fewer remote areas, but they're still out there and generally speaking nobody is stopping you from it.
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Solitary

And why is the world over crowded? Because religion, especially the Catholic religion that most poor people listen to that teaches that birth control is wrong, and also to have as many kids in the family as possible as the quiver society in funda"mental" religion says to do.

There was a movie that showed a primitive tribe that lived isolated on a mountain top in the Amazon that were like the AWA until the missionaries came and wanted them to be civilized. They only had two diseases, pneumonia and the common cold. When a child was born there all the people of the tribe were their parents, so if a parent died they still had a family---how's that for family values? The men would go out in the morning and hunt while the women and children gathered plants and fruit to eat.

These people had no words for war, hate, or crime, because they never had a reason to.
When the men got back they got high by blowing tree bark up their noses. Then they ate and would find any woman or girl that was of age and wanted to be taken back to their hammocks and have sex with  because the tree bark made them horney. But this was unbelievably sinful to the missionaries who made them afraid of their God.

They completely decimated the tribe with VD, small pox, and measles just like they almost did with the Indians here. Religion will destroy mankind in a self fullfilling prophesy while the last man or woman prays to God that isn't listening and could care less even if He does exist.  :roll:  Solitary
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Solitary

:-k  It's common to describe humanity as being violent and war-like. Given our recorded history, it's not hard to understand why - but we need to be careful not to confuse nature and nurture here. Just because humans are violent and war-like in particular kinds of societies doesn't mean that we are, by nature, violent and war-like. Maybe that behavior is produced by particular social, cultural, and political organizations.

Species-typical tendencies normally come with built-in rewards. Nature has ensured that we find fulfillment in eating, sex, nursing, and socializing, all of which are necessary for survival and reproduction. If there were truly a genetic basis to our participation in lethal combat, we should willingly engage in it. Yet soldiers report a deep revulsion to killing and shoot at the enemy only under pressure.

After these experiences, they often end up with substantial psychological damage. Far from being a recent phenomenon, haunting memories of combat were already known to the ancient Greeks, such as Sophocles, who described Ajax's "divine madness," now known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

During most of our prehistory, we were nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose cultures are nowadays not particularly known for warfare. They do occasionally raid, ambush, and kill their neighbors, but more often trade with them, intermarry, and permit travel through their territories. Hunter-gatherers illustrate a robust potential for peace and cooperation. ....

There are many religious believers who point to our history of organized violence as proof that there is something wrong with human nature. If, however, our history of organized violence is actually a history of how organized society has negatively influenced us rather than a history of depraved human nature, then that religious critique of humanity is on a very poor foundation.  :roll:  Solitary
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.