Posted: Mar 08, 2010 5:42 am
Steve wrote:The tooth fairy and santa serve important cultural roles. You may laugh and reject them, but that is merely you asserting your relationship with respect to them. Supposedly as 'more mature' or something. Have some kids. They are lots of fun and can be taken very seriously.
You know nothing about me, so please don't make assumptions.
Steve wrote:Use the idea of god as a personification of reality, which is what all the Greek and Hindu gods do, it makes sense of the whole thing. They are tools for exploring our relationship with the world around us. They are metaphors, but at root they stand on the fact of the subjective point of view. They are tools to explore and manipulate the subjective which cannot be put under a microscope and examined.
As much fun as it sounds to personify reality and call it god or santa or the tooth fairy, I think I'll pass.