Hey @lucylin :D
Good point! Not rambling at all. Religion indeed brings a sense of identity to people. Not only that, it also has the ability to gift people with purpose. It gives people a role not only in this life, but also in "the afterlife". This is true particularly for those who have been robbed of their social identities (e.g. the single woman whose children have been taken by the social services , the unemployed man who 'finds strength in God to stop drinking').
Take away that spiritual framework, and people are left with a vacuum with no reference point.
This is precisely my explanation for why people end up turning to ideologies, conspiracy theories, or whatever offers them some sort of path. In the scientific world there is a crude misconception of what religion entails, but whenever I have the chance I try to convey to my peers that religion goes beyond the blind belief in a superior being. For it is also a sense of community and therefore, of identity and meaning.
In the absence of it. That vacuum, as you appropriately put it, must be filled up with something else. And sadly, oftentimes, it is with anything but reason.
We are all right over here! Thank you :)
I trust the same is true over there. I see you back on the war artwork. It's so beautiful! I love this house! <3 Say hi to Lucy & kisses to Sophia!
Any purpose, is better than no purpose. (at the individual level).
When 'faulty' individual purposes go on to then become group think, we then get insanity! lol.
Yup, my figures are coming along very slowly...(I'm not sure they will ever work, tbh - after 20 of them are now in the bin).
I'm determined to give them a go, however, for reasons I said in my post - but I keep looking at the cheap, and very well molded figures, readily available, and for $60 or so, I can have my army here in 10 days.
I'm resisting the temptation so far, and will crack on with my DIY soldiers..
I never quite realized just how difficult it was to get the anatomical proportions close enough to real people, so that they don't look like deformed skeletal zombies with severe birth defects! lol
My house you love is now redundant.
(I'm fairly sure that southern colonial style abodes, were not too common in the dark ages! lol)
I'll send you my house !!!!
(and throw in two other- now redundant-buildings, and you send me some Viking and Saxon warriors! lol)
Good to hear everything's peachy - same here.
I'm not kissing Sophia for you....
She's just been running in the fields and partaking of her favorite pastime- which is to see if she can roll around and cover every square inch of her body, in cow shit!
I must say, she takes her hobby very seriously - and I'm confident that she'll achieve her goal at some point in the near future...
(I might give her a kiss for you, after I've thrown her in the shower...)