Religion and Reality

The inherent violence of Earthly life requires us to take from our environment to survive.  
This contradiction between a known and loving God[s] and a reality of violence gives rise to religion, which attempts to guide and explain reality to people in way that can be sustained throughout the generations.

Freud spoke of the Gods as reflections of what we experienced with our psyche.  This ruled out more mystic views of our innate capacity for hallucination and coincidence.   Jung spoke of them as archetypes, concepts within the soul along with demons and angels and spirits that represent codes of what we really know.   Mystically the archetype calls us to some kind of indirect or direct experience of unusual coincidence. A Jungian might argue that we don't know for sure whether the coincidence is because of our choice of called on archetype or because of some other variety of event.   The world over mystics of all religions including the mystic atheist Buddhist claim the mystery event.  Modern thinkers like Ouspensky spoke of musical harmony created by the body and mind, leading to periods and moments of great harmony, referred to rather with ill ease as cosmic octaves.  Modern atheists speak of a deception, perhaps they should speak of a deception implied by nature.

 We call on these archetypes, hoping to glimpse some coincidence that proves we do not die eternally, but have some chance to continue.   This is supported by nature to some extent.   The animal is free to roam in what might be a delusion, but seems to be too much a coincidence to be ignored.  If the animal applies too much however to the "mystery" he can become sick.  We fear people who seem sick with religion, because we fear their ferocious violence.

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Iron Maiden

Wild Animal Wilderness is all about myself, the wild animal, and the nature around me, this wilderness.

It's about whatever comes to my mind.  Nature, science, religion, history, folklore, legends, myths, music, women, sports, and even communism.

Yes, in Canada it's the good socialism, which is really like a capitalism with a communal conscience.  A spirit of enterprise prevails but it doesn't overpower our human sensibility.  We all belong to this great commonwealth, so I suppose you could call it commonwealthism.   The things we hold truly in common or which no one can really fairly say they own without a big fight we share in the profit of.  It's as close to the perfect socialism as you can get without becoming a dictatorship.  The logic of socialism is sometime forgotten by Canadians and we all can appreciate some tax breaks, but the logic of sharing what is rightfully held 'in common wealth" has made Canada a very safe and prosperous society.  It's more like a family thing than a political party, in some regard Canadian hold dear the idea they are part of one human family.  We don't always agree about brotherhood, personally I have struggled with that, but in some abstract way we still are.

Do people in Canada believe in God and which God?  Nowadays Canadians believe in many Gods and none.  Technically the God of the national anthem is the God of the Christians, which the Muslims also claim is their God.  I think there is disagreement over this.  Some people claim the God of the Canadians is really the God of the Danes - !
Lo!  praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!