What do we need a deity for? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, August 08, 2011, 21:47 (4856 days ago) @ whateverist

dhw: For me mythology doesn't come into it, if by that you are referring to books like the Bible and the Koran.
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> No, I had something more like Joseph Campbell's take on mythology. Mythology and Jungian psychology may shed some light on the workings of the unconscious. I'm with you when it comes to holy books, although even these could be read intelligently as literature with subtle meanings rather than as explicit directions for currying favor with the head honcho so as to get invited to the big hereafter.-I fully agree with you here, whateverist. Mythology (especially of the Jungian kind, espoused by Campbell--is a powerful answer to what motivates the Human Psyche.)-Some answers for David in this regard as I prepare my response for his Chapter 6. It will be large.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"