Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand - Part 2

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How widespread was 'atheism' in ancient times? Were there a lot of vikings who thought Odin and Thor were bullshit? Were there a lot of ancient Egyptians who thought anubis and Ra were just silly drawings? Or am I misunderstanding their views of their gods, and perhaps they all understood that they were just stories
 

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I don't think the notion of gods is ridiculous, we've been thinking about them since the dawn of time so there must be something there that we're drawn to.

whats ridiculous is the widespread control that religious institutions have over the modern world, which should be moving towards secularism and unity
 

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Faith gave people comfort in simpler times. It wasn't that long ago (2500 years, give or take) people thought the Earth was flat, so any idea that is hundreds or thousands of years old should be subject to scrutiny regardless of who came up with it.

The problem with organised religion is the attitude of 'I'm Christian/Muslim/whatever therefore I go along with this/that/the other'. Something that seems to be off limits as far as religion/faith goes is Aboriginal mythology. The dreamtime is a bunch of nonsense but the stories are cool and the culture of the people is 40,000 years old compared to our 200 odd years since European settlement so people don't go around saying 'well actually that's bullshit' like they do with creationists.
 

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At a social get together on the weekend. Met a chap who was involved in a robust discussion about everything. Not a left sided person by any stretch with words like "lefties, snowflakes, do gooders, bleeding hearts" thrown around.

Topics included immigration, muslims (restriction of both), ALP and their violent supporters and the SSM yes result (swear he was red as a beetroot then).

I snuck in with a little jab "many of the NO voters came from migrant areas who are of conservative nature".

 

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I don't think the notion of gods is ridiculous, we've been thinking about them since the dawn of time so there must be something there that we're drawn to.

whats ridiculous is the widespread control that religious institutions have over the modern world, which should be moving towards secularism and unity
The notion of why people in the past and less educated societies beleived in gods is not ridiculous. In fact science has shown us why humans are prone to believe in made up gods . However science has also shown us that gods do not exist and given people in western socieites have both this knowledge and the knowledge of why humans are prone to believe in made up gods then it does seem ridiculous how so many of the population continue to still believe in them. Its like a magician has shown us how a magic trick is an illusion and we still continue to believe the magic is real.
 
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What i don't understand (well i do), and what shits me is Melbourne Storm/Craig Bellamy propping up the ******* league. This guy will have a star he has built from nothing that will go back home cos hes a bitch for nothing. Ok that's fine, so we will go to the feeder club and pick up some rookie scrub and turn him into a ******* champ just so he can return home to the Broncos. Ok, thats fine, so we will find another scrub on the scrapheap and turn him into a ******* champ and then the lil bitch wants to go home, so we let him go. RINSE AND ******* REPEAT.
And another player announces today that he will move to another club in 2018 but will play the next whole season at the club he is departing.

There is one thing the AFL has done well in spades.
 

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And another player announces today that he will move to another club in 2018 but will play the next whole season at the club he is departing.

There is one thing the AFL has done well in spades.
Personally I don't mind them playing when they are leaving. The Storm guys always seem to kick ass, and we always replace them so it works both ways ;)
 

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Being hit by a bicycle doing 40-50 km/h is pretty serious. Doesn't happen that often, but a lot of cyclists are dicks when it comes to picking and choosing when they want to use the road and when they want to use the footpath.

Also pedestrians are zombies. It's common to ride along a dual use pathway with no one around and ample room for everyone and see pedestrians walking 4 abreast, or just single file but randomly snaking all over the place as they get a new high score on Candy Crush. If I ride my bike on a dual use pathway I try to give pedestrians as wide a berth as possible to account for unpredictable movement.
 
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