@danas10 - What does 'fly on a window' mean?I still don't get it.

@Muriel - I find it interesting that Cain was a 'naturer' and Abel a 'nurturer'.One brought forth the fruits of the 'accursed' ground and the other life that found sustenance from the very ground.I also assume Cain would be squeamish around blood.

I'm also curious of the implications of the question,"Am I my brother's keeper?" I want to hear your thoughts on Blavatsky,Daniel,Revelations,,,,,,,, I don't think 'philosophers' sit on pedestals but on stools.On denial,is it there by design or consequence?Possibly as a means to run away from truth?

@tycho - Conflict in God.This is something I have 'perceived' for I fear to say I have observed.But that's my journey.God not being constrained by time but still leaving giving 'free will' and choice is a topic I find very complicated.Preempting comes to mind.

@jokes - The tower of Babel is an interesting topic too.In chapter 10:31 it states they were "by their clans and languages" but 11 says they had "a common language".I need to think more about that.I can't deny the appeal in using religion to attain power and control but there is also the matter of spirituality.Are we really evolving if we've discarded something that all cultures have acknowledged existed?Even if we put aside spirituality,how can we assume what lies beyond death when life itself is a mystery.

Go on...

I think I'm familiar with that torture.

Questions are my way of assimilating to the dance.

I will or I'll try.

An unfamiliar position for me ,,,,,

Saw what?????

Who??????????

I do not know.

Now what about my questions can you answer them?

...she

Please don't tell her. I beseech thee, @danas.

Jaynes is concerned about the origin of 'consciousness', and he posits that 'consciousness' has come out of the 'breakdown' of the bicameral mind. And that this breakdown is/was a result of the development of language; the manifestation of 'consciousness'.

There are arguments to show that consciousness isn't necessary for concepts, thinking and reasoning. But what is necessary for 'life'? Consciousness? Perhaps something 'greater'?

Consciousness is an act of creation. Consciousness isn't necessarily 'continuous'. Unless there's consciousness of consciousness- superconsciousness. Beyond fear.

To be conscious, you live in, and by fear. There's light and darkness.

'God' is a universal, and 'optimal strategy'.

Religion is a set of ideas, and patterns that conduce mind optimization and it thus follows that though religions may appear to be different they share a common intention and 'foundation'.