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cybalist@egroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
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>
> Arkurgal:
> >Religion is not just a matter of comfort. It implies the perception
> >of a sacred essence in things, everywhere, perhaps more specially
> >here than there, but, anyway, above all: the superior meaning of
> >reality.
>
>Glen Gordon:
> But... isn't having this ordered perception of the cosmos a kind of
> "comfort"?
I was speaking about the sense of sacred as an exalting view of
reality, a «tremendum»; anyway, it contains the perception of
cosmic
order as well.
It is comfortable, yes, to some extent, but that does not allow the
reduction of such perception to a simple matter of comfort.
Glen Gordon:
>And again, I think that the whole reason why people are so
> intrigued in describing the cosmos is fueled by the fear of death.
ARKURGAL:
Not necessarily. Children, for instances, show a great interest for
knowledge, and some of them don not even know that they are going to
die one day.
Glen Gordon:
> Understanding the world around you is a simple survival technique
that we
> picked up after millions of years of development as a species.
ARKURGAL
Yes, but it is not just that. Frequently,practical people, concerned
with survivance most than with everything else, do not show a great
interest in knowing the ultimate meaning of Life. And I would like to
point out that religion is not just understanding the world. That
would be science.
Glen Gordon:
> By
> understanding death, we may be able to cheat our ultimate and
unrewarding
> fate of "non-existence".
ARKURGAL:
Who said that our fate is non-existence?
One way or another, doesn't everything have a function?
Without «normal» fear, would men be able to survive?
Therefore, the so-called «fear of death» might be an instrument
destinated to force our Rise towards the infinite and eternal Above,
towards OLYMPUS/VALHALLA
ARKURGAL