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Man's Need to Anthropomorphize

2011-01-02 04:57 PM

Marty Hamrick
Oshawa, ON
Posts: 4

I firmly believe that the the reason people believe in God is man's inborn
desire to anthropomorphize everything. We want to put a human face on everything
and relate to everything as if it's a member of our family. If we have pets, we
see them as our children, often referring to ourselves as a dog or cat's "mommy"
or "daddy".On instructions to things we put faces on inanimate objects to make a
point. Instructions to care for your VCR tapes can show pictures of a VHS tape
lying in the rear window of a car with a sweaty human face, it's just our nature
to personify.

This is clearly not an accurate way to view the world. Anyone who knows anything
about animals for example will tell you that your dog or cat does not relate to
you as "mommy" or "daddy". They're personifying in their own way, they see you
as the dominant alpha of the pack or pride, that's why your cat brings freshly
killed mice or snakes to your doorstep as a trophy, they are giving back to the
alpha who provides food, just as they do in the wild.

Why should the universe be any different? The religious imagine a celestial
father figure in their gods and attribute all human characteristics of fathers,
functional and dysfuctional to them. God(s) in this viewpoint possesses all of
the emotions and with them, the faults of every human being, such as anger,
jealousy and possesiveness. Yet the religious have a caveat as usual, saying
that God's attributes are "perfect" and ours are "flawed" or of "sin nature" so
God is given carte blanche excuse for everything.

It just seems to me that man's need to anthropomorphize has been one of his
downfalls with respect to understanding. If you tried to train your dog the same
way you did your kid, it wouldn't work very well and if you attempted to train
your kid with the same methods you use for your dog, then I'm sure the Child
Protective Services would want a word with you at some point at the very least.

That said, why then do we hang onto the apparent error that the universe has a
human face? The answer is easy because it's more emotionally comforting to
believe that we have celestial parent(s) than to try to face the obvious alien
unknown.

If observation on a micro and macrocosmic scale mean anything, to me, it seems
that the cosmos is cyclical. Galaxies expand and contract, planets spin on an
axis, giving rise to seasons, atoms have their protons, neutrons and electrons
orbiting in similar fashion. Given this observation, it seems unlikely to me
that the universe behaves in the linear mode of beginning, middle and end, but
more like a constant cycle of birth, death and rebirth. This, to me negates the
idea that there will ever be a final state for the human soul or spirit,if
indeed such a thing really exists.

Now, if we remove the idea of anthropomorphization, what other concepts of
God,life after death and other issues can we come up with?

2011-07-15 11:59 AM

Miguel Lahunken
Etna, ME
Posts: 18

Do you believe in light? You couldn't read this without light. In 1John1:5 it says, "God is light". Science knows that light is energy. God is energy. There are two things in the universe: energy and "information". and information is the conformation of energy.

We got consciousness in finite time. In our brains, consciousness was caused by the capacitance and ectropy of the arising reticular formation of the medulla oblongata, which is simply the interference of information by virtue of the inevitability of orthogonality.

The First Law of Thermodynamics is, "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed". Energy is eternal. Certainly, in eternity it is inevitable that information would cause energy (God) to be conscious. Would you think that God doens't want boredom. That is why He doesn't interfere with free will.

To answer another question, information can be created and destroyed. That is what the Second Law of Thermodynamics says when it says, "In the universe, entropy always increases". The entropy of the universe, at any one time, is the proportion of photons to nucleons, that is, entropy is the extent of polarity cancellation.

Information, the conformation of energy? Take a cloth sheet. It represents energy. Wrinkle the sheet. The wrinkles represent information. Pull the sheet out straight, and, "fump", the wrinkles become nonexistent. They "perish". Look in "Roget's Thesaurus", perishing is synonymous with becoming nonexistent.

Such a universal sheet exists on the eighth, ninth, and tenth dimensions; and, it is called the Ricci Curvature. Where there is no Ricci Curvature there is no matter. It says in the Bible, "Only He (God) is immortal"; and, "The soul that sinneth shall die". Crooks have profited on the fear of Plato's immortality of the soul.

There is the "aioniu amartematos", the "aeon of failure", mistranslated into English, "eternal damnation". A Greek professor told me that an "aeon" is only a hundred years. Spirit is matter in bent timespace, and, matter is spirit in flat timespace. Our soul is that portion of our being in the fifth dimensional spheres of bent timespace. Theoretically, -n+n=0, the soul is still perishable information.

A Jehovah's Witness told me, "Eternal punishment is infinite injustice. God in not unjust". By the way, if Jehovah's Witnesses get on your case, just tell them that you want to become nonexistent; and then, they will immediately go away. I am only 99.9990 % sure I can someday become nonexistent.