"If we believe in something, then we don't really have to think independently, right?"
At the end of the film, the awakened former believer said the original words as above. This is not only a reflection on the religious life, but also the beginning of life's awakening. It is a life lesson worthy of our vigilance.
The birth of religion is the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage. Primitives cannot explain complex natural phenomena and human phenomena. Primitive religions are derived from the need to explain and conquer nature, and continue to develop and survive.
With the progress and development of society, religion itself is mixed with its own elements, culture, rules, judgement, spiritual and so on.
The human brain has limited space and limited thinking ability. It is impossible to think more than five questions at the same time, which alternates between rationality and sensibility. These mental limitations have caused people to always have a kind of inertial logic and habit of being lazy or not wanting to think or even giving up thinking. We must know that thinking itself consumes energy and is more tiring. Learning without thinking is useless, and thinking without learning is perilous.
The ancient sayings of sages have already clarified this point.
It is precisely based on 1, seeking to explain the natural heart, 2, escaping from the pain of reality, 3, lazy inertia not to think, 4, curiosity driving to experience new feelings, etc., which lead to the fact that religion will not die and have the soil for long-term reproduction.
It is possible that human beings have been the product of the alienation of the universe since we were born. We have started the life course of being alienated, shaped and brainwashed since we were born, but the external objects and ideas that shape us are different.
I want to escape the shackles of the social world and the washing and harm of material civilization to myself, and I entered religion. This is itself a so-called mainstream mainstream and entering the niche, but the niche itself is the same construction mode as the mainstream. Strict hierarchy and false exaggerated idealism.
In a sense, what can save us is not to pick and choose between these religions, but to practice and think more and to feedback and correct in thinking.
But believing in what and independent thinking itself may be that the two sides of the coin are not opposed but may rely on and support each other.
Therefore, independent thinking should be given priority in ordering, and this is the feasible way of thinking that can stick to the faith and avoid going astray into the x-religion faith.
It's too hard to think independently, it's really not empty talk. The ability to think independently is enough for us to work hard and persevere throughout our lives. This ability is not inborn, but requires our unremitting efforts.
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