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Friday, October 8, 2021
Thursday, October 7, 2021
All religions are sprung from a misunderstanding (Edited)
Wanna get enlightened? Okay, follow me down the rabbit-hole...
At the heart of every religion we have sacrifice, that is offerings. Ppl offer food on altars: blood, animals, fruit, humans. God or the gods or the spirits "eat" these offerings. With christians, they drink the blood of their god and eat his body. It's a reversal (which brings me to say that the New Testament is really not about god forgiving us but vice versa, it's us rehabilitating Jehovah - but that's for another day), but i) in order to achieve it - Jesus had to be sacrificed, ie: fed to God; and ii) those who eat of him - will have life after death.
And that's the key here: life after death and dietary habits thereof.
But before we get to the point: vampires are dead and drink blood. Zombies are dead and eat people. Hungry ghosts drink blood/ eat people. Seems anything that comes back from the dead or is undead - wants to feed (on the living). Godzilla - neither god nor undead - just wants to break shit - go Godzilla!
Dead kings'/ queens' tombs are full of food for the afterlife. During the various Day of the Dead celebrations around the planet - ppl leave food and drink for the dearly departed.
You see where I'm going yet?
So primitive man thinks: "to live, I need food. When I'm in the afterlife (spirit-world), to live there - I will need food". God/ gods also live in the spirit-world - so therefore they must eat too - coz how can they live without food?
Thus the idea of sacrificial altars is born. Thus rituals begin. Thus rituals become ceremonies, festivals, masses.
All to feed imaginary spirit-world hungry-ghost space-vampires.
Because some guy out there once had a silly misunderstanding about eating.
(Because some guy thought seeing someone dead in a dream meant they were still alive - but in the spirit-world. Silly duffer.)
Edit: The more I think about it, the more it feels like some primitive cave-dweller had a dream of a recently deceased person they loved. Then they questioned the vividness of the dream, and how this person could still be communicating with them. "Coz they live in the afterlife." And what lives - needs food.
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