I really don’t think it’s possible. I don’t mean that in a negative way.
I’m going to answer your question in two ways:
I try to avoid really talking about what I believe because even I recognize how insane it sounds. But in a nutshell, pun intended lol, I believe that at some point in our existence as conscious energy(our soul) we realized that we had limitations. Without a physical body, all we could do was observe not really experience the vastness of the omniverse. So the higher powers(conscious energy greater than ourselves) created a means for us to take physical forms on planets. Our physical forms biologically are made for whichever planet. I think that living, learning, growing is part of our soul, our conscious energy. But going between forms, is traumatic, so there are “fail safes” so to speak. We don’t remember what it is like to just be conscious energy BUT because experiencing a planet, because learning, growing and living are so much a part of our soul, we adapt. I think the needs that drive religion and sciences are part of the fail safe, part of allowing us to do what we need to do on this planet, and part of our soul.
Second response:
Both in science and religion it is believed there’s a single start point of human existence. This means that all human descended from that same start point. I think it’s reasonable to believe that even the very first human tried to understand their existence and purpose. If they didn’t, there’d be no path for growth and learning, we’d be no different than ever other animal on this planet and there’d be no purpose really for higher intelligence. As humans migrated, they took with them all the core beliefs (the similarities) and each evolved them. I don’t think it’s impossible for different groups to get same ideas such as building pyramids. There’s times I see replies here that are extremely, not exact wording, but extremely similar to what I was thinking. I find it unlikely that I’m the only person who’s experienced this.
And this all goes back to my very first sentence, we may have no purpose, this could be it, but I can’t even fathom an existence without a purpose because on the preconception that there has to be purpose. Why create something that does nothing? The whole circle of life revolves around purpose.
Momto2boys973 wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 3:23 pm
Wow, deep questions.
I wonder how many could answer them without their preconceptions and prejudices showing.
Here are some of my thoughts:
Many people say “religion is man made”, but then how come societies without any contact between them ended up with the same concept of divinity? The names may change, but ultimately, Hindi, Aztec, Greek, Inca, Celtic, Nordic, all have a similar concept of what a “god” is. Even the Biblical version, which talks about one God, the idea of immortality, of being able to manipulate nature, of having superior knowledge and interfering in human affairs is pretty universal. I find it hard to believe that was man-made…
You would think that so many people living in so vastly different environments an lad facing vastly different circumstances would each come up with vastly different ideas if it was just a matter of explaining natural phenomena.
How come the idea of pyramids developed both in Mesoamérica and Egypt? A lone Egyptian builder traveled to the Mayan Riviera for spring break?
And it’s not just that, so many shared concepts: clothing, family, social status, war, currency, literature, art. You do have to wonder how those developed all over human societies.
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Quorra2.0 wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 10:14 am
Anonymous 6 wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 11:15 am
Religion is a man made thing. I do believe there is life on other planets. It's impossible for there not to be. As for Christianity on other planets, no. As I said, Religion is a man made thing, it's a way to explain what was previously unexplainable to people who wanted some sort of answer to the questions they didn't have answers for.
That was an interesting question.
Thank you. Many things are human made. Humans created and developed languages, means not only to communicate but to identify. Humans also developed sciences to explain and understand what was previously unexplainable. All a hypothesis is, is a belief that something is or will be true. So it makes one wonder; whether it’s science, religion, or both, if our needs that drive the ideas are part of our physicality or part of our conscious energy? I additionally wonder if humans would have evolved to where we are today or where we will be in the future without that need. Idk if that makes sense.