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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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