The Endgame

 

 

Detached observation1 reveals that in nature,2 indeed within each environment within nature,3 there are few winners4 and many losers.5

 

It also reveals that winners are by and large happy6 and lead pleasant lives and that losers are unhappy7 and lead miserable lives.

 

To make life bearable for the losers, smart, indeed caring humans fantasise supernatural8 comfort and consolation solutions that support the losers to continue to serve as ground upon which the winners to thrive.

 

To that end the fantasists of the supernatural9 devise a vast variety of beliefs, procedures and practices that serve as placebos10 that help reduce and even eliminate the pain of failure.

 

Hence the extreme value of supernaturalists’ therapeutic because survival supporting interventions.

 

 

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1.     i.e. of the broad canvas

2.     i.e. of the totality of identifiable realities as dynamic emergents. Note that all dynamic emergents (i.e. living systems, such as the human) are predatory. They survive by scavenging alternate emergents for energy and self-construction materials.

3.     i.e. of each recursion (or fractal elaboration) of the dynamic identifiable reality generating procedure (elsewhere called the Brahman).

4.     A ‘winner’ is defined as a differential quantum of identifiable reality which, because different (indeed random), can instruct (or strike) an alternate differential quantum and thereby create a new (because different) real identifiable quantum/datum.

5.     A ‘loser’ is defined as an identifiable reality quantum that disappears/demerges because it fails to self-differentiate, i.e. because it remains the same and so is compressed out.

6.     Happiness (or pleasure) signals survival capacity increase (i.e. success; ‘righteousmess’).

7.     Unhappiness (or pain) signals survival capacity decrease, i.e. failure (i.e. ‘sin’).

8.     For ‘supernatural’ read: other than natural, i.e. percepts derived, and therefore cannot be apprehended/touched by the sense perception.

9.     i.e. both religious and secular.

10.   i.e. as fake therapeutic interventions that are more or less effective depending on the receptivity of the recipient.

 

 

 

Supernatural fantasies as survival supports