When giant woolly mammoths roamed the glacial face of earth, homo sapiens were nothing more than hunting nomadic beings, always reactive and utterly primitive. Those early examples of human beings faced natural disasters, like flood, famine, storms and lightning with puzzlement and horror. Everything to them was terrifying, unforeseen and unpredictable.
It took thousands of years for humans to settle, plow the earth, and congregate in little tribes and communities, but fundamentally they were still the same until a new phenomena occurred. communication.
Humans started to communicate and share their ideas, needs, fears, and opinions. Collective knowledge is the result of this verbal communication, and this knowledge was translated into pictorial form and later on, scribed to transfer this collective knowledge to the next generations.
Those humans needed answers, to various questions, shallow and deep. What they couldn't answer collectively, they sought from higher authorities, shamans, and chiefs. Those authority figures gave their account of what happened, why it happened, and what will happen.
Humans taught their kids those answers, and helped to embed those beliefs into their receptive, developing little minds.
With time, those opinions turned into absolute truths. People waged wars in defense of what they believed and held to be true.
In spite of time, those ideologies stood there, un-eroded, alive in the minds of the impressionable.
Forward three thousand years later, and you find the same humanoids holding the shamans' accounts as absolute truths, worth fighting for, killing in defense of, and even sacrificing one's self to appease the gods.
What benefit did those opinions, fables and myths bring to humanity? What was the point of it all?
In retrospect, don't you find it all just frivolous?
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