Sunset and Sunrise
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Sunset and Sunrise
Post #1Is watching the sunset and sunrise reminiscent of ancient sun worship? Could it be something in our evolutionary past that is still a part of us. History shows animism and sun worship are the first clues of religious and spiritual influence in humanity. Do we still hold to these mezmerizing ideas in one way or another?
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I think the ability to feel wonder and awe are some of the highest human attributes.
Though I think the "earth rise" picture taken from the moon are more inspiring than run of the mill sunrises.
That said, the sun defined early society. When you could grow food. Sun was literally life.
Though I think the "earth rise" picture taken from the moon are more inspiring than run of the mill sunrises.
That said, the sun defined early society. When you could grow food. Sun was literally life.
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Post #3I'm convinced people still subconsciously attribute Jesus to the Sun, even when they say "Son". The allusions to Light, warmth, Life, energy, etc are all retained from earlier, pagan beliefs.Nickman wrote: Is watching the sunset and sunrise reminiscent of ancient sun worship? Could it be something in our evolutionary past that is still a part of us. History shows animism and sun worship are the first clues of religious and spiritual influence in humanity. Do we still hold to these mezmerizing ideas in one way or another?
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In any primate social structure, an individual's chances of mating, and therefore passing on its inherited brain structure, are connected to status, and status is gained by forming alliances. This involves selecting actions that will either please or subdue other members of the troupe. This is probably how apes and monkeys have developed a predictor program, using some sort of 'reference model', constructed by the brain, on which to test out possible actions before implementing them. This reference model eventually becomes what we humans think of as the self.
But then we extend this model to all significalnt natural phenomena. We guess how things will act, or what they intend, basing our guesses on how our internal model relates actions and intentions.
Anyone who has ever spent a night out in the cold will feel the morning sun as a blessing or a kindness, and will feel grateful. Likewise we ascribe intentional hostility to dangerous phenomena, wehther these phenomena are capable of conscious intentionality or not..
God, in this view, is the ultimate extension of the self, which in turn is merely a theoretical model of the 'other'.
But then we extend this model to all significalnt natural phenomena. We guess how things will act, or what they intend, basing our guesses on how our internal model relates actions and intentions.
Anyone who has ever spent a night out in the cold will feel the morning sun as a blessing or a kindness, and will feel grateful. Likewise we ascribe intentional hostility to dangerous phenomena, wehther these phenomena are capable of conscious intentionality or not..
God, in this view, is the ultimate extension of the self, which in turn is merely a theoretical model of the 'other'.
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Post #5Naw, we just like the unique colors that appear when the sun is at a low position angle in the sky.Nickman wrote: Is watching the sunset and sunrise reminiscent of ancient sun worship? Could it be something in our evolutionary past that is still a part of us. History shows animism and sun worship are the first clues of religious and spiritual influence in humanity. Do we still hold to these mezmerizing ideas in one way or another?
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