The first myth we ever told was “There is a reason behind everything.”
This just came to me earlier tonight. Like a lot of these thoughts, first comes the phrase, then the reasoning behind it.
In fact, it’s that word, “reason” that makes it a myth. There is a cause for each action, a trigger. Likewise, a action, once triggered, can potentially trigger others.
It’s the concept, the substitution of the word Reason for Cause that changes it. It implies a intelligent design, a direction to the event. No longer are we acknowledging that there was a prior event, we are implying direction, purpose, a invisible hand guiding it. We are implying reason, rational directed thought.
It’s not a great leap to call that reason God.
Myth’s are the lies we tell ourselves, but in the telling, we make them true. We force, we create our world around us, giving birth to our myths. We create God, or at least our perception of it, simply by changing a word “cause” to “reason”. By framing an event with logic, we begin to organize random events into a pattern, bringing order to chance. From that order of random events, we begin to sculpt reason, and master our universe with control.
This just came to me earlier tonight. Like a lot of these thoughts, first comes the phrase, then the reasoning behind it.
In fact, it’s that word, “reason” that makes it a myth. There is a cause for each action, a trigger. Likewise, a action, once triggered, can potentially trigger others.
It’s the concept, the substitution of the word Reason for Cause that changes it. It implies a intelligent design, a direction to the event. No longer are we acknowledging that there was a prior event, we are implying direction, purpose, a invisible hand guiding it. We are implying reason, rational directed thought.
It’s not a great leap to call that reason God.
Myth’s are the lies we tell ourselves, but in the telling, we make them true. We force, we create our world around us, giving birth to our myths. We create God, or at least our perception of it, simply by changing a word “cause” to “reason”. By framing an event with logic, we begin to organize random events into a pattern, bringing order to chance. From that order of random events, we begin to sculpt reason, and master our universe with control.
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