Utopian-tube: Another Agnostic Bites the Dust

ANOTHER AGNOSTIC BITES THE DUST Category: Religion and Philosophy

I am giving up agnosticism today. Not enough holidays. But seriously, I thought it was simple logic to admit we can't ever know some things, so why label them GOD or JEHOVAH, or MOHAMMED ? It only sets huge groups of people bickering so where's the benefit ? Well, yesterday I saw a video that changed my feelings about all this. It suggests a rational explanation for all religions, an evolutionary warp of pagan beliefs that started with sun worship. That has the ring of truth for me, and I have a sharp ear for bells. The video clip included below effectively rationalises all religions to some extent because it shows how they all have a link to physical reality. It looks like this had a poetic metaphorical counterpart that was mistaken for literal truths, whether by devolution of language or from being simplified to pass the stories to non-astrologues who wouldn't follow the math.

The most striking thing is that all these similar religious myths repeating throughout recorded history began well before the Christian Bible stories.The fact that they were in some form at the beginning of human records suggests to me they come from simple diaries of the physical world.

Obviously MANY people have need of religious beliefs, or at least to go through the motions, and this idea that all these religions could be based on the astrological notes of early humans seems pretty cool. So maybe the need for rituel has not been properly studied. We spend so much time arguing if GOD exists, why not figure out what purpose our brains have for making patterns and representations out of everything, are we receptors for something we can't decode? Are the ranting paranoiacs wearing tinfoil helmets really meant to be our antennas? What simple truths are we overlooking? It seems every generation has their blindspots, what are ours? Why are we ignoring the elephants and the whales? They've been around longer than us and they have bigger brains. So what do we do? Pull out their tusks and make piano keys? Make some candles?

Look at how Galeleo was persecuted by his beloved Catholic Church for proving the earth went around the sun....pretty prophetic ! Not so long ago surgeons thought it was undignified to wash their hands before performing surgery, and these were the highest educated people, which illustrates how we can miss simple truths around us.

Blind faith in anything, even things we can see and prove exist, can be fatal. Plenty of things we can "see" and prove exist like money, governments, jobs, can mislead us into a false security and then we become tyrants. But respect and even celebration for things we don't know yet....where's the harm in that? What if the grains of truth in all religions are the metaphorical imprints of complex relationships we have not grasped yet? What if studying falacy could unveil great truths?

I have heard it said that every year science resembles religion more and more. Certainly in the world of finance, we have economic speculators making numerical suppositions to manipulate and profit from the world's future. That is fantastic and also vampirical. But getting back to what I started saying, I am giving up agnosticism because I think we CAN know, though we may not express it very well yet. A higher power, is power even the word? What if this higher power is not a power, but a pudding? Maybe our understanding of the physical reality and it's relationship to unseen reality is in such an infant state as to render our expression total comic poetry at this point.

They say there is a point in the reptilian part of our brains, that when stimulated gives people a feeling of being "touched by god". A sort of "all knowing flow with the universe" feeling. So, maybe GOD has a physical explanation, the need to stimulate the part of our brain which connects us to the outer world or inner world....here again words fail me. But it is fun to think about.

Love to Albert Hoffman, wherever you are.