Early today for a change; felt more energetic and motivated about ideas relating to the sacred, my upcoming talk topic theme. ‘Forge the iron while it’s hot’ goes the saying that is applicable in this case.

John and I did have coffee at the new Second Cup down 4th street, yesterday. Nice venue, good coffee and tasty muffins.

John and I did have coffee at the new Second Cup down 4th street, yesterday. Nice venue, good coffee and tasty muffins. In the aft I read some chapters in ‘Sapiens’. In chapter 6 - Building Pyramids - the author attempts to come up with a rational explanation for religious practices in our human past.

He is honest enough to know that religions played a central role, but does so begrudgingly and with constipation. ‘It should not be there’, is the impression I get. It is as if religions are raining on the parade of rational development belief. Be that as it may, Hariri is well informed, keeping the reader engaged with his style, info, questions and perspectives.

I marked up two daily entries last night, but the posting on my website is crippled by outdated reference files that are in my Toshiba web directory. I’ll wait to see if John can fix the bios on my desktop this coming Saturday.

P.S: I did transcribe my pencil notes mentioned a few entries ago and dated to the 15th and 16th this instance. The file for it is: Tosh-C:\users\Tony-Vliet\docs\Tonys docs\Framework for our Time.docx

The theme of ‘The Sacred’ is playing through my head as I read ‘Sapiens’ and think about my up coming talk topic as follows. Hariri makes clear in his book ‘Sapiens’ that humans did have religions that affected them in certain ways. However, the author also implies (Chapter 6) that the affect and effect of these religious concepts and motivations beguiled humans and their forming agricultural society.

He says that this resulted in a life style characterised by a significant loss of freedom compared to the preceding life style of the hunter gatherer societies. It made me even think and comment that this author probably never went camping or pack packing.

It is my view that religions guided and shaped human behaviour in many ways, some of which was detrimental, but most was helpful and often beneficial.

It is my view that religions guided and shaped human behaviour in many ways, some of which was detrimental, but most was helpful and often beneficial. The rational by itself is not sufficient a reference for the human and must be balanced by the sacred, which connects humans with the unexplained and mystery of existence.

The ratio can not explain all that falls outside its limits and yet is part of our human experience. This is what makes the sacred necessary in human lives as a part of our reference, besides that which can be rationally understood.

So, both the ratio and the sacred must be acknowledged as a part of the human experience and given pride of place in an equitable manner. Human existence is full of mystery of which much can be explained and understood changing, but not diminish the experience of the mystery of existence to which we connect by means of the sacred.
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