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Cultural evolution suggests that, regardless of intention, these practices which have become mainstays of popular religions around the world, cover some type of
by darkerside 8y ago
Cultural evolution suggests that, regardless of intention, these practices which have become mainstays of popular religions around the world, cover some type of benefit to survival, reproduction, or intellectual spread.
- JulianMorrison 8y agoOr to spiritual practise. The idea that they have to have a mundane use strikes me as wilfully blind to their intended purpose.
- darkerside 8y agoConsidering the infinite variety of ways to exercise a spiritual practice, and that many (perhaps most?) of them have died out in favor of the dominant religions and spiritual practices that survive today, I'd actually say it's willfully blind to ignore the likely impact of religion on survival and reproduction. It's simple game theory. The religions that survive today outcompeted the others.
- nurettin 8y agoThat, or terrible peer pressure. In my opinion, Occam's razor suggests the latter.
- darkerside 8y agoThat's fine. I think it's just conventional wisdom that makes this seem like the "simpler" solution, and I'm a bit allergic to that, but to each their own.