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Akamatsu Toki
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lol wut religion?

    I was thinking today, as I am not necessarily wont to do, and somehow my thoughts came across the following argument that people use for a higher-being: If god doesn't exist, why would so many civilizations independently create one to worship?

    This semester in my English class, we've been discussing Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, who make it their business to basically analyze people through a theory that says people act the way they do because we are prewired to - that we fall into specific categories.

    Jung, in particular, says that humans fear the unconscious - the unknown. What could be more unknown than death? So we adapt and create a coping mechanism; a guarantee that there is a life after death. There are plenty of things we don't understand, so it's only natural that, thousands of years ago, we see a star shower or whatever the hell, and assume that it's god raining his fiery wrath upon some poor b*****d over yonder.

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AkamatsuToki
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