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They are pointless to you. Their universality points to their importance to humans, in general. I mean, one of the key markers of our species is that we ritual
by toasterlovin 9y ago
They are pointless to you.
Their universality points to their importance to humans, in general. I mean, one of the key markers of our species is that we ritually dispose of our dead. That feature of humanity goes back hundreds of thousands of years and it evolved.
- tomc1985 9y agoIt is ritual attached to function. We also non-ritualistically bury our dead. Ritual, alone, is fine. But human beings inevitably have to impose their BS on other people, who don't always agree or want what is being imposed. If the ritual-followers could keep to themselves that would be one thing. But no, its 'ooooh you must share in this!'
- trav4225 9y ago"human beings inevitably have to impose their BS on other people" Welcome to planet Earth! ;-) Humans do this with everything, regardless of whether they are sincere believers, religious zealots, strident atheists, or Silicon Valley humanists. :-)