>>3995
>rich people together agree that xyz watch brand is valuable and it becomes a good store of wealth.
so basically cryptocurrency
>>3995
>you don't understand religion and its consequences at all.
A socio-economic vehicle that...
1. served as a source of unity and law amongst a group of people
2. served as a source of culture and heritage
3. served as an answer to existentialism
>You should honestly spend your time and read good sources on what these religions actually say.
For Islam there is Jakat (quasi-taxation) and "help thou muslim neighbour"
It gives people hope, attempts at fulfilling people's spiritual and personal deficiencies.
I have had enough attempts at brainwashing to know Islam at a good-enough level
> but for life altering events like
> - Death of a parent
> - Natrual disasters that take everything away
will Allah help them ?
will Shiva/Brahma/<insert god here> help them ?
or is it good economic and humanitarian policies of their government and fellow citizens that will help them ?
After my grandparents died/were killed and my most dearest relatives (some of whom raised me as an infant) were plotting against my family, i was a devout muslim, I prayed everyday in hopes that things would resolve, prayer did shit.
It burnt me when I saw the general attitude of boomers and most pious faggots was to extort the poor and people beneath them, to cheat and abuse the poor only to donate thousands/lakhs to masjids.
If they showed one-tenth the love they had for their gods to the people they despised, the world would have been a better place.
> More importantly, if you reject religion , what is it that you offer in return ?
to teach people that no le divine being is going to save them and in the end the only person they can depend on is their fellow brother ?
NatSoc ? (minus the eugenics autism Hitler perpetuated)
>Dogmatic worship is necessary, especially for idiots
why not either teach the idiots to donate the tons of food and gallons of milk you hindus waste on festivals to the poor, or let the govt. manage shit ?
> > No limitations of the sacred / Man above nature / gloabalized extraction of resources with no end
have you ever considered Capitalism and Socialism/Communism rose PRECISELY because the economical models of religions were either non-existent or very barebones and could not grow alongside the increased and diverse industrial growth ?
>> Central banking / Credit
A band-aid fix to the aforementioned issue.
>> Death of family to get more workers
Culture has become a commodity, Values have become a preference. This is objectively something bad, i have no defense.
>> Dogmatic worship of current thing
don't have an answer to this rn
>Why is it that Mayans,Egyptians and others were able to build civilizations of complex capabilities ? They did not have trignometry or modern mathamatics or engineering.
Because they had about 5000-10000 years to figure out shit via trial-and-error ? while "modern" world barely existed before the past 600 years ?
> They may not make sense to you
they do, we won't even be debating about this if not for our failure to cope with the sudden technological advancement of mankind.
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>Engage yourself with better people and better texts anon.
I hope so too, life experience of me and others have made me realize arguing about philosophy, taking it seriously is a fucking meme and ultimately practicality triumphs philosophical bullshit, so it is kinda hard for me to think about shit without looking at their current, practical consequences, but I do need to read more philosophy.