I do believe that most people live a life of quiet desperation (to paraphrase Helen Keller) that is so boring and so meaningless that they need to believe in an afterlife in order to stop themselves from jumping out of the window...
Robert Pirsig said,
"The term logos, the root word of “logic,” refers to the sum total of our rational understanding of the world. Mythos is the sum total of the early historic and prehistoric myths which preceded the logos.
The mythos includes not only the Greek myths but the Old Testament, the Vedic Hymns and the early legends of all cultures which have contributed to our present world understanding.
The mythos-over-logos argument states that our rationality is shaped by these legends."
That being said... our present logic, or way of seeing the world, is nothing but an extension of the early legends... so it might be high time to review those beliefs with a fresh and more enlightened eye...
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