Archetypes in religion, the collective unconcious

[The Recluse]

Well Joseph Campbell has done an outstanding job in proving the existence of archetypes in every religion and primitive mythology enough to convince me that we are being told the same story every time but the names of the characters and locations have been changed. Anyways, I also believe in the Jungian idea of the collective unconcious. So now I've decided for myself that the collective unconcious is God is the source is reality so in essence everything must be God. Thus pantheism.

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Originally posted by The Recluse
Well Joseph Campbell has done an outstanding job in proving the existence of archetypes in every religion and primitive mythology enough to convince me that we are being told the same story every time but the names of the characters and locations have been changed. Anyways, I also believe in the Jungian idea of the collective unconcious. So now I've decided for myself that the collective unconcious is God is the source is reality so in essence everything must be God. Thus pantheism.

had done. homie's been dead for a while now.

[The Recluse]

true, next time i should keep that in mind.

[flame_still_burns]

i prescribe to the nothing is god theory.

[The Recluse]

Originally posted by flame_still_burns
i prescribe to the nothing is god theory.

care to explain further?

[straightXed]

Originally posted by flame_still_burns
i prescribe to the nothing is god theory.

i prescribe to the ed is god theory.

[flame_still_burns]

Originally posted by The Recluse
care to explain further?

religion(and hence the search for god) is a means of humans justifying or short existences on earth. we have such short lives and we are unwilling to beleive that we are so unimportant that we have this time and that is it. we think, there must be more, there must be some grand reasoning behind the 80 or so years we get... the reason that religion exists at all is that we are too intelligent for our own good. we comprehend our own mortality. we know we are going to die, we dwell on it, we fear it. my cat doesn't sit around and ponder the future. she doesn't think, 'one day i will grow old and die'. but we do, and it's such a terrifying unknown that we invent stories so that we don't really have to die, we just go somewhere else and live.

the reason that there are these archetypes in every religion is that the basic human intellect guides us as to what are acceptable and unacceptable actions. people that were born worlds apart both know that there is something fundamentally wrong with killing someone. look at our laws, do you think that it is illegal to steal only because the bible says not to? at times, religion has surely helped to enforce our laws. since most religions have boiled this life down to a proving ground for what lies beyond. add an all-seeing all-knowing man with the ability to send you to an eternity in the fiery abyss, and it becomes easier to enforce those shoplifting laws. god is the santa claus for adults, he knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when your awake, he knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for heavens sake.