Two Thoughts
1) Vengeful God
I had a dream today, in it I saw a mortal challenging one of those Gods. It was all very Tolkiensque. The details do not matter but finally, the God ruthlessly killed the man. While thinking about it, two things came in my mind. One, that God is said to be infinitely kind and fatherly and two, that he is often portrayed as angry. So are these two things compatible? If a man is challenged by his son, what would he do? If the child is small, he will probably feign defeat, otherwise he will leave it to his devices thinking that the world will teach him. He may punish but will certainly not kill him (if the son or the father is not a monster!) So if an earthly father can be so kind with his limited kindness, how much patience could a heavenly father show?
I am an agnostic, so the purpose of this post is not religious, but to show that all religions that postulate an angry and at the same time a kind God are based on contradictions. This applies to Muslim, Jew, Christian and many sects of Hindu religion. Compare further and you will see that prayer, ritual, crusade/jihad cannot be the hallmarks of true religion.
2) Genetic memory
I read somewhere that Tolkien used to suffer nightmares in which he found himself amidst a deluge. He thought it to be a memory inherited from his ancestors. To everyone’s surprise, one of his sons used to suffer the same nightmare. Now is that possible? If we can inherit physical features from our ancestors, could it be possible to inherit memories too? I googled it and found out that this term exists and there has been much research on it in Biology and Psychology. Has anything like that happened to you ever?
I had a dream today, in it I saw a mortal challenging one of those Gods. It was all very Tolkiensque. The details do not matter but finally, the God ruthlessly killed the man. While thinking about it, two things came in my mind. One, that God is said to be infinitely kind and fatherly and two, that he is often portrayed as angry. So are these two things compatible? If a man is challenged by his son, what would he do? If the child is small, he will probably feign defeat, otherwise he will leave it to his devices thinking that the world will teach him. He may punish but will certainly not kill him (if the son or the father is not a monster!) So if an earthly father can be so kind with his limited kindness, how much patience could a heavenly father show?
I am an agnostic, so the purpose of this post is not religious, but to show that all religions that postulate an angry and at the same time a kind God are based on contradictions. This applies to Muslim, Jew, Christian and many sects of Hindu religion. Compare further and you will see that prayer, ritual, crusade/jihad cannot be the hallmarks of true religion.
2) Genetic memory
I read somewhere that Tolkien used to suffer nightmares in which he found himself amidst a deluge. He thought it to be a memory inherited from his ancestors. To everyone’s surprise, one of his sons used to suffer the same nightmare. Now is that possible? If we can inherit physical features from our ancestors, could it be possible to inherit memories too? I googled it and found out that this term exists and there has been much research on it in Biology and Psychology. Has anything like that happened to you ever?
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