Sunday, March 22, 2015

Reification

Collectively imagining things into existence is what earthlings mostly spend their lives doing.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

The myth of sexy body transformations

The truth about "before and after".

In this case the simulachra did not even bother to move on to the next stage in any physical sense. Just a bit of preening and lighting. Result: thousands imbued with a get-a-sexy-body neurosis, mealtime guilt and a lifetime of unrealistic expectations.

Anthropomorphism in religion

Jesus is one of the many mental tools to bring God closer to human understanding, just like any other anthropomorphic or otherwise shaped gods and goddesses. In that sense, Islam is a much more advanced form of monotheism, because God is not made out to look like a human or have any particular shape comprehensible to the conventions and mental habits of the human mind. That sad, understanding Jesus in spirit, rather than pulling quotes from the Bible to suit one's own agenda, is what differentiates Christian spirituality (personal quest for God) from Christian religion (a social institution with everything that goes with it).