Originally posted by Ralphy
Many people believe the stories of the different gods of civilizations to be either false or just metaphors to wisdom. Some even believe they all say and point to the same wisdom but just use different stories and symbols. Now my question is where did wisdom of spirituality and/or love come from? Religious people need not to reply because I already know what your answer will be, I want to see what other(atheists/agnostics/etc) people think about this.
I think the search and understandings started with the mysteries of nature/life.
Fire, wind, water, ect....
Take a mystery, a unknown, and tie in ones personal intellect and personality..and a belief is created or the mind begins to at least wonder.
You also have dreams...that allow our imagination to create things and this too can cause us to seek something deeper in 'life' or to even find in our own personal understandings, a power that is beyond and behind, life itself.
The unknowns are the cause and the effect is man trying to explain that which is unknown.
I think that the very word of 'god/spirit' is in life itself....so always, mankind has been able to be with nature and see or feel that there is something tying life together, that there is something almost magical, about life 'being'.
Edit to add...peoples personal desires and fears also get tied into beliefs or understandings.
edit on 20-10-2011 by LeoVirgo because: (no reason given)
