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marylandblue

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7. Probably the best way to look at it

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 08:36 AM

Sep 2018

And perhaps, at least on unconscious level, the people at the time understood it they way too. They were looking for meaning in a bleak and dangerous world, so their God is loving but dangerous. Sort of like an abusive relationship.

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Satan gave man love. Was it worth the hate? [View all] Greatest I am Sep 2018 OP

"Hail Hydra" qazplm135 Sep 2018 #1

I read the tale of Forbidden Fruit as the moment that humans rejected the role of pets. Girard442 Sep 2018 #2

I read it as the authors, ie priests, telling everyone they should obey unconditionally muriel_volestrangler Sep 2018 #47

Were Adam and Eve real people? trotsky Sep 2018 #3

Personally, I don't care. I don't read any scripture as divinely inspired or as a history book... TreasonousBastard Sep 2018 #6

Probably the best way to look at it marylandblue Sep 2018 #7

The OP speaks as if they were. trotsky Sep 2018 #22

Ancient argument-- can there be good without evil to compare it to? TreasonousBastard Sep 2018 #4

Buddhism, Hinduism, and Zoroasterism all acknowledge the essential role what we call "evil" plays Nitram Sep 2018 #9

Yes, I'm aware of that, and when I first heard it, a lot of things became clearer... TreasonousBastard Sep 2018 #13

Well put. I lived 21 years in Japan, and married a Japanese woman. Nitram Sep 2018 #15

Just curious, where are you located? masmdu Sep 2018 #27

Charlottesville, Virginia. Nitram Sep 2018 #43

Such a sweet fairy tale, filled with love, understanding, relationship building... Ferrets are Cool Sep 2018 #5

Reality is not sweet, it is filled with love, understanding, relationship building... Nitram Sep 2018 #10

To be fair, the bald man didn't actually send any bears Mariana Sep 2018 #21

Thank you for the correction. Ferrets are Cool Sep 2018 #30

Exactly. God could have told Elisha to get a grip. Mariana Sep 2018 #31

Why is love and hate dependent on good and evil? marylandblue Sep 2018 #8

I rather doubt that animals feel hate, as we know it. I suspect what they feel is directly Nitram Sep 2018 #11

I have seen it in dogs marylandblue Sep 2018 #12

Dogs are pack animals, and their behavior reflects that. Nitram Sep 2018 #14

Our notions of good and evil may be no more than sophisticated pack behavior marylandblue Sep 2018 #16

Yes, I'm certain we are hard wired for some pack behavior. But as cultural-anthropologists Nitram Sep 2018 #17

Chimpanzees fight wars and are worse than us marylandblue Sep 2018 #18

Chimpanzees are not pack animals. Nitram Sep 2018 #19

The differences between pack animals and animals MineralMan Sep 2018 #35

A troop of Chimpanzees engages in social behavior that is exponentially more complex than Nitram Sep 2018 #42

As are people Major Nikon Sep 2018 #46

hate is too strong qazplm135 Sep 2018 #39

From your posts Voltaire2 Sep 2018 #41

Voltaire, I'm not sure to whom you were addressing your comment above, but... Nitram Sep 2018 #44

It was you. Voltaire2 Sep 2018 #45

Do animals experience those emotions, guillaumeb Sep 2018 #29

Research shows other mammals seem to experience the same basic emotions we do marylandblue Sep 2018 #32

The key word is, of course, "seem". guillaumeb Sep 2018 #34

No matter the qualifier or lack thereof I put, you would have argued the point marylandblue Sep 2018 #36

I have read a little. guillaumeb Sep 2018 #37

Read more then, and think a little too marylandblue Sep 2018 #38

Well, now, what research have you read on that subject, guillaumeb? MineralMan Sep 2018 #33

I'll ask Zeus and get back to you. SamKnause Sep 2018 #20

It's just a story. A story told around campfires by MineralMan Sep 2018 #23

Ooga Booga. Iggo Sep 2018 #24

I think cavemen knew right and wrong. LakeArenal Sep 2018 #25

Pure fantasy and fiction. masmdu Sep 2018 #26

I prefer the Santa Claus myth. Corvo Bianco Sep 2018 #28

Hail Santa! nt uriel1972 Sep 2018 #40