On Reason and Belief by Jenn Zhu
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On Reason and Belief
Jenn Zhu
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belief, and the belief came to empower the reasoning of
humans. The emotional shock such as a feeling of awe to the
nature caused by the cruelty of the environment and the joy
created by the successful experience led people to rely upon
certain things associated with their experience while related
to the totem. Consequently, the connection between the
emotional devotion and spiritual trust was established
between the human and the believed symbols, and made the
worship became instrumental in human history, which was
truly a transcendence of human spiritual and mental activities
over primitive lives, and made them apparently stand up, not
only physically, but spiritually from the animal kingdoms on
earth, and made them become the preferable ones of the God
or the Heaven. Thus, they never need to craw on earth again,
not like some animals which may temporarily or occasionally
stand up in order to accomplish some goals.
However, will the spiritual standing- up last for ever? Humans
are clever, and quick learners also, but they have a problem
which can never be fixed, that is easily forgetting things they
have learned before. It is said that a fall in pit, a gain in wit,
which is true and will work for a short period of time, but
people could seldom keep the wisdom for a life time, and can
never pass those lessons to their off-springs through genes
which would develop into a biological mechanism. Those
lessons would be coded into the library of this civilization and
could only be inherited by those who are willing and ready to
learn. The human civilization is founded on reasons and have
developed into many different disciplines so far. and only
those who are capable of consciously making sense of things
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