I was thinking about fishing or hunting. When you catch the first fish, do you think to yourself, "well, I might as well quit and go home... that was the only one in here..."
No... I was just think how strange it is that we never accept one of anything... no matter what you are hunting for... rabbits, gold, diamonds etc... if you find one of anything, you always figure there are more where that came from...
what made me think of it was the idea of FIRST CAUSE... of course, the concept of FIRST CAUSE makes no sense philosophically, because it is a misuse... if everything has a cause then the first cause has a cause etc...
but anyway, I was thinking about how early humans cultures had multiple gods... isn't that what you'd expect... multiple gods to explain multiple unknown things in nature...
which made me research monotheism in the posts below... I thought it was a Hebrew invention, but from what little I read seems to suggest it wasn't...
so I was thinking about the idea of just one god... and then also thinking about the concept of false gods...
why wouldn't there be multiple gods... I mean if there can be a god, wouldn't expect where you find one, there are others???
certainly the mother of god wouldn't create just one god...
can you imagine if suddenly we could start all human memory over from scratch... erase all history, but let human intelligence etc. be what it is today...
what if there was no oral or written history and no historical records but we could all read and write and had computers etc... but all historical information was deleted...
what would each culture cook up as to origins... AND, even within cultures, wouldn't you expect a tremendous diversity...
maybe it would have about the same diversity we have today??? or would it???
and what would the different cultures say about the other cultures explanations of origins???
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