Doug Holland@lemmy.world to Atheist Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoInconceivable!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1475arrow-down117
arrow-up1458arrow-down1imageInconceivable!lemmy.worldDoug Holland@lemmy.world to Atheist Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoMy point is that we have no idea they all had the same delusion. What each refer to as Enlightenment may be very different. Even so, they may have all watched the same film, ingested the same chemical compounds or suffered the same childhood injury. Your hypothesis would be comforting if true (particularly as we are not discussing supernature) but I remain skeptical.
minus-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months ago we have no idea they all had the same delusion. You have no idea that they did, and you have no idea they didn’t. That’s why I said before that if you can see how religions rhyme, you can find a core message in all of them. And that, I think, it the truth.
My point is that we have no idea they all had the same delusion. What each refer to as Enlightenment may be very different.
Even so, they may have all watched the same film, ingested the same chemical compounds or suffered the same childhood injury.
Your hypothesis would be comforting if true (particularly as we are not discussing supernature) but I remain skeptical.
You have no idea that they did, and you have no idea they didn’t.
That’s why I said before that if you can see how religions rhyme, you can find a core message in all of them. And that, I think, it the truth.