Re: Death, Self-Awareness, God, & Forgiveness

Corey's channel: http://www.youtube.com/professoranton

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[yikeswood]

are you a jew or what is your ethnicity

[0ThouArtThat0]

3rd generation american, but russian jew, german, and welsh before that.

[0ThouArtThat0]

genes are interesting things, eh?

[HotSexyHandsomeGuys]

Matthew, much of the Jewish bible borrowed from the prophet Zoroaster in Persia, who founded the first major monotheistic religion, rising between the 11th and 10th centuries BCE. Zoroaster focused on the universal struggle between good and evil, creation, and the concept of "free will". By exercising good thoughts, words and deeds, mankind is able to support goodness over evil. Does all of this sound familiar? The bible is not an original work - nor are the religious stories and concepts in it.

[0ThouArtThat0]

I wouldn't claim the Bible is original. I agree that Christ has elements of many prior archetypes melded into him. Christianity is a culmination of Zorastrianism, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology, Buddhism... I don't think the fact that humanity's religious expression has been building toward Christianity is in any way contradictory to what I said in this video. Christianity is a culmination, it is not completely novel.

[Maikl71]

I think religion has two functions: at an individual level it provides spiritual exercises that immunize against the fear of death and against world stress and on a social level it provides a codified set of ethical rules. And the advantage of monotheist religions is their transportability as they are available in book form.

[0ThouArtThat0]

Homer wrote books, too...

[HotSexyHandsomeGuys]

There were also many gods of Egypt who rose from the dead and ascended into the eternal heavens. Antinous, eromenos of Emperor Hadrian, drowned in the Nile and under Egyptian Pagan beliefs, all who drowned in the Nile rose from the dead to join Osiris as gods. Hadrian declared Antinous a God and his worship exceeded Christ from 130 CE to 393CE. Antinous rose from the dead and ascended into eternal heaven and sat next to Osiris as Antinous-Osiris. Christ was not the first risen god.

[Lanark8]

Its interesting to watch you evolve and chart your interesting observations. Keep up this wonderful work. A quote: There are times when silence has the loudest voice. Kind and warm regards to you and yours.

[Neueregel]

Genesis is a bunch of fairytales for primitive beings

[ontij68]

Very good video!

Can I just say you look like Franz Kafka.

[HotSexyHandsomeGuys]

@0ThouArtThat0 .... A "culmination" Matt .... or a fabrication? Plagiarism for the sake of creating political tools to control others should never be mis-interpreted as a progression of philosophical thought, regardless of the passage of time. Constantine was a murderer and had his political reasons for declaring Jesus a god. Muhammad wanted to unite the Arab tribes and needed to justify murder and war. Fabricating religions for such purposes would not seem to be a "culmination".

[ToiToiToiHerrKaleun]

@HotSexyHandsomeGuys is there similarities between the polytheistic religions/cults of for instance middle/south america and other places in the world? and if so does that mean that one necessarily has "borrowed" from the other?

[Tiredofcrap]

Creature speak.

[sweeetly]

I AM

[drew335533]

Wow, this is a great video.

[PinkProgram]

Without language you humans would be chimps. You can't even do it very efficiently.

Why should theology survive? What value does it have?

[modemusicman]

Let's say god is absolute perfection, what purpose would it have to create creation? A god of absolute perfection would already have the answers to everything, so for a god of absolute perfection to do anything less then nothing would be something less then a god, it would be more like average because it would be spawned out of some type of human intent or just any other type of human emotion. So maybe you are right, its a question of dialect and its translation within the mind.

[modemusicman]

Wow, Buddhism was easy, probably not so for Buddha. How about the philosophy that all things are connected, be it Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism etc. But all they are at best is a composition of each other, kinda like when you play music and read a speech the body of work is already done, you're just drawing from it. What about something brand new? The god concept, why would a god be a god if it was jealous, revengeful, angry, lonely, selfish etc? Maybe rethink the concept.