From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 23:28:17 MDT
At 09:27 PM 9/23/02 -0700, Spike wrote:
>Could it be that half the population
>of this planet believe in an afterlife because of
>this mechanism?
>
>http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/ns/ftecontent.jsp?file=/news/afterdeat
h/afterdeath.jsp
Doubt it, happens too rarely. But look, the answer's staring us in the face
every morning. During the day you run around with the other people in your
tribe. When the sun goes down you enter a weird part of the world where you
see all kinds of familiar animals and people you were just talking to over
dinner and dead people and trees that jump in purple rivers of grass and
all that stuff. When you wake up you sometimes go over to spear the bastard
who was screwing your wife in the dream world, and everyone understands
this. Half of your life, although it's a bit hazy, has dead people you used
to see in the daylight running about in it. What more proof does a good
hunter-gatherer need?
Damien Broderick
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