Some of you might be inserted in my short essay, at:
pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowals … hought.htm
Feel free to share it with all who might be interested, especially students.
Ludwik Kowalski
Reminds me of the Biblical story of Abraham … the father of our faith. We are asked to believe he abandoned his family and wandered off into the unknown. Maybe he abandoned his family … and maybe he didn’t … maybe he was pushed out who knows eh!
It doesn’t matter … today we refer to Judaism, Christianity and Islam as the “Abrahamic Religions” … billions of people owe their faith … good or bad … to this man Abraham … who may have never existed … yet the story of his life … and the results that followed … have been digested by billions. Hmmm!
I still think Tolstoy was right … the fact that we attribute success/failure to one person is a fallacy … Abraham and Stalin included. The “human hive” gets what it wants … the desires and fulfillment of the desires may vary from “hive” to “hive” yet the underlying pattern(s) remain constant.
Infants require nursing … babies require spoon feeding … eventually the child learns to feed himself/herself.
So, you actually see human society as a “hive”?
Phyllo … might be better stated as a community of “hives”.
Let me try to explain my thoughts a little better. For the purpose of discussion I will label Judaism, Christianity and Islam as 3 independent … though not totally independent … “hives”.
The survival and expansion of these 3 “hives” have caused unimaginable collateral damage … human misery and death … across the millenniums of their existence.
OTH … some of the adherents to the “message” of these same “hives” have made enormous contributions to science, medicine, philosophy, charitable institutions and so on. Go figure eh!
Sometimes silence is a ‘louder’ response than a written/verbal response … ???
If, for the purpose of discussion … we can accept that immortality is more than a legend … human misery and death become moot points … and the discussion can move on. As Moreno posted somewhere … that’s the beauty of discussion, debate, argument … I suppose we have to even include hostile argument. The Biblical reference is the "When 2 or more of you are gathered in my name … I will be there.
Perhaps the “community of hives” notion is akin to the food chain in our eco system … an orderly communication network ???