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Wherefore religions. What's it really about?

Religions are, in the final analysis, based on collective searches for a resolution to fears which have no possible rational solution.

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Closing Statement from O'Neil Poree

No comment directly addressed my clear thesis.
One (Humphrey) positively acknowledged it.
One (Debra) seemed to enjoy it as much as I hoped the cognoscenti would.

Most denied, it seems to me, that we are apparently buried in a universe we are neither well-enough equipped to understand nor safe in our pretensions to be the end-product and purpose or this complex creation.

No one applauded the implications that our view of creation either is incomplete (scientific) or irrational (religious).

I am very pleased with TED's provision of a billboard to get this idea into the entire group's cognitive space (especially without the necessity toattempt to write a complete philosophy textlet).

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  • Vijay surana

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    Aug 9 2012: In my opinion, they are a set of laws (sacred and fearful), so we live a civilized life, better than what we come from "ANIMALS".

    Say, a way of life!

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