mikhail said:
lets face it you look up mind control and the basic needs to do so are the same as any organised religion.
Also religions are not logical. A man can work on water. Heaven/hell the soul there is no logical explanation.
Its obvous bullshit that isnt true yet billions believe in it yet a small cult is frowned apon.
Obvious bullshit? Depends what point of view you are looking at it from. If by bullshit you mean, they get to be happy there entire life thinking they are going to heaven after they die, and you get to believe that when you die your gone forever and your life is ultimately worthless so why even live it to begin with, then yeah it's bullshit.
I think you should read the works of Soren Kierkegaard the Danish philosopher.
He points out that ignorance of knowledge is not only *not* a negative attribute, but that it also allows us to live a better life. Reason leads us to a path of questions which we are incapable of ever understanding or answering, and thus these questions tourment the mind for as long we live resulting in nothing but misery and despair.
Read the following for a better understanding.
"Our freedom—that freedom which the Creator shared with man when He summoned him to life—is in a swoon, paralyzed. The terrible monster Nothingness holds us in its power. We know, we feel with our whole being, that this is Nothingness, i.e., that there is nothing to it, and yet we cannot fight against it, just as if it were not impotent Nothingness, but omnipotent Something. What is more, by virtue of some senseless and nightmarish dialectic, we do everything to strengthen the power and might of Nothingness. We ourselves have transformed it into Necessity, the Ethical, Eternity, Infinity. Our understanding and our consciences were not captured by it from without, but, as one might say, from within; we are incapable of doubting the lawfulness of its claims, even when it presents us with the most hideous demands; we see a contradiction in doubt, and Nothingness has taught us to think that horrors of any sort are preferable to a contradiction.
It is just as Luther said: homo superbit et somniat, se sapere, se sanctum et justum esse. A man who has surrendered himself to the power of Nothingness thinks that he is knowing, thinks that he is righteous, and does not even suspect that, the more firmly he becomes convinced of his own knowledge and righteousness, the stronger and more unbreakable grow the chains with which Nothingness has bound him.
This absolute trust in knowledge which possesses immutable truths, dependent upon no one, and the accompaniment to this trust, confidence in the possibility of realizing a righteous life by one's own powers simply by having the desire to do so, have, as I said, transformed Nothingness in our eyes, first into Necessity, then into the Ethical, and then into Eternity and Infinity.
Reality is encompassed by time, its only master, in such a way that nothing is left of it for man: the past is no longer, the future is not yet, and the present, confined between a future which has not yet arrived and a past which has already vanished into Lethe, becomes a mirage, a phantom, a shadow, just as Regina Olsen turned into a shadow or, at best, into a poetic device when Kierkegaard tried to approach her.
No one in the world can do anything against this age-old "law" of being established by almighty Nothingness: all are powerless, as Soren Kierkegaard was powerless—only no one recognizes or feels horror at his own powerlessness. There is no difference here between the wise and the foolish, between the learned and the ignorant. In fact, the wise and learned prove to be even weaker and more defenseless than the foolish and ignorant. For wisdom and knowledge not only see the perishable and transitory nature of all that exists; they understand that it cannot be otherwise, and that therefore everything will remain as it is forever, whereas, the foolish and ignorant do not even suspect this.
That is the basic and unshakable truth achieved by human understanding and demonstrated by human wisdom. Understanding has revealed to us that there is nowhere to flee from Nothingness. Wisdom has given its blessing to the truth revealed to it by understanding; there is no need to flee from this truth, no need to quarrel and contend with it; one must accept it, grow to love it, extol it. Even the heavens sing its praises; man must echo the heavens. "
