Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology

The Innate Urge For Religion
There is an innate need for suppression of neuroticism (worry) in an unpredictable (kaleidc) universe, that is exacerbated by the alienation and anomymity of post-tribal life – it’s simple neural economics. Religion functions as a standard of weights and masures that reduce potential for status counter-signals and individual and group conflict and maximize opportunity for cooperation on the same terms with the same expectations. That’s why all major relivions emerged about the same time, in response to the need to restore cooperation as the world recovered from the bronze age collapse, much the way that literacy helped in the recovery from the plague.
That doesn’t mean we can’t have a non-false religion like stoicism, it only means that some relgions are more costly to train (stoicism, judaism, classical liberalism) than less developed religions that are more resistant to innovation and adaptation.
We need to train mindfulness by some variation of the stoic method in order to restore emotional stability. It’s just work.

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