>>9009086>Did buddhist meditationsahh
despite my best efforts, and the best possible guidance, it suspiciously felt like sitting still for half an hour not doing anything every now and again
the best thing is reading about people who took an oath of a year long silence and regretting it too
>What happenedread about how religions develop differently, often depending on the relative danger of society at the time but it all breaks down to power dynamics and wishful thinking.
there were two african villages, i remember. one hunted sharks, one were hunter gatherers. the hunter gatherers were less 'religious' and less extreme in their beliefs. the shark hunters would do weird shit like spread their naked legs toward the ocean to attract the good will of a nature goddess of bounty. they lived close together, yet their 'religious beliefs' were largely shaped by their circumstances. it also pertained heavily to the risk of their own cultural practices.
there was also a religion of literal pedophilia in some isolated bunch near indonesia where they thought feeding kids jizz was the only way to make them mature, out of a mistaken belief that 'jizz made them in the first place, its required to keep them growing'.
but in general if you had to summarize that part of my education in a nutshell, religion is cope
there's so many of them. none of them agree, most of them are supertition of no objective value at all. i think the sheer number of schisms in abrahamic ones should be enough to talk someone out of all of them if they were thinking straight.
are jews actually wrong? are muslims? catholics and protestants both say each other go to hell. lutherans, bahai, hindus. who could say any are actually right? i think that's arrogant.
