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Love is faith. How else do you explain making yourself totally vulnerable to another human for no reason other than the possibility that they will be nice to yo
by tsol 4y ago
Love is faith. How else do you explain making yourself totally vulnerable to another human for no reason other than the possibility that they will be nice to you for life, rather than eventually changing as humans tend to do, and despite huge rates of divorce and cheating in our society? Either you have faith in the one you love, or you are a hard rationalist that sees its a losing bet
I think you're just attacking faith because you think it's a purely religious concept and you feel your smarter than the religious. But it really isn't a purely religious concept. Anyone who's had faith a friend would let them down ought to know that .
Rhe kind of confidence that you have here, the kind that makes you certain a majority of the world are fools for practicing religion-- that's the real thought-terminating cliche. It's the same thing as the religious person who thinks they know everything and can condemn all to hell because they're so certain they're right and everyone who thinks differently is wrong. And it really is a tired cliche
- dqpb 4y ago> How else do you explain making yourself totally vulnerable to another human for no reason other than the possibility that they will be nice to you for life … Our social impulses are the result of several billion years of evolution. The primary reasons are reproduction and survival. I didn’t invent these ideas by the way. For reference, I would take a look at the fields of Biology, Psychology, Anthropology, etc.
- tsol 4y agoLove is the result of evolution? No, love is a concept from culture. The raw feelings we have are the result of evolution. But as some men live to say, evolution didn't make them monogamous it made them want to be polygamous. It's culture that says you are supposed up love one single person your whole life despite constantly finding others attractive.
- dqpb 4y ago> the [confidence] that makes you certain a majority of the world are fools for practicing religion-- that's the real thought-terminating cliche My pet theory is that an alien species planted religion in humans as a KPI to determine when we’re rational enough to be worth interacting with.
- tsol 4y agoGiven that religion, especially the Abrahamic faiths(at least for the western and Islamic worlds) were a huge part in getting to the scientifically minded society we have today, I would think it might be an Alien species' way of making us advance ourselves intellectually. Religion is pretty much what forced people to live together peacefully so that science can advance. Go back 100,000 years and humans were still eating each other.
- namero999 4y agoThat's a very peculiar definition of rationality... But can't blame you, it's one of those words that modern language successfully tore apart, and most people nowadays equate rationality with logic, creating lots of troubles for themselves in the process.