Re: Was/is religion necessary for people to cooperate?

by **Lord Pheonix** on Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:20 am

Now i'm just sitting back to see till Godwins Law is put into effect.

by KristallNacht on Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:51 am

well, the nazis didn't need religion to gang up on the jews!!

by **Angatar** on Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:06 am

I'm a bit confused how you went from piracy to religion so fast. I guess LP works in mysterious ways...

by dragoon9105 on Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:14 am

Its in the title if you forgot, The thread is about religion and how it doesn't help people unless we let it. and then it hurts us in horrible horrible ways.

by **Angatar** on Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:56 pm

I know, but check the bottom of page two.

by CommradeFox on Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:14 pm

Alightly off topic but, apparently Piracy (Copyism) has become a legit religion in Sweden with about 3.000 members world wide.

From DN (a swedish newspaper) google translated. The entire article can be found here: ww w .dn.se/livsstil/att-kopiera-digitalt-nu-erkand-religion
Just remove the spaces. FYI it is all in Swedish.

The Netpirates own religion, kopimismen, has been officially recognized as a religion in Sweden. "Copying and dissemination is one of our core beliefs," said kopimismens priest Isaac Gerson.

by **Lord Pheonix** on Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:25 pm

I now have respect for 1 European country.

by Jamiesway on Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:07 am

Religion is pointless things to give people hope that theres after life.
I think its the governments way to keep us from being criminals... not really working.

by **Rotaretilbo** on Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:28 pm

Jamie, if you're going to necro old threads, at least try to make a post that doesn't make everyone else facepalm.

by **Lord Pheonix** on Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:45 pm

Rotaretilbo wrote:Jamie, if you're going to necro old threads, at least try to make a post that doesn't make everyone else facepalm.

by Jamiesway on Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:59 am

The second part was a joke, FYI...

by **Lord Pheonix** on Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:02 am

Lord Pheonix wrote:
Rotaretilbo wrote:Jamie, if you're going to necro old threads, at least try to make a post that doesn't make everyone else facepalm.

Fixed

by **CivBase** on Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:05 am

....

I'll be going now.

by Gauz on Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:32 pm

Religion is caused by chem-trails.

by Ringleader on Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:27 am

The cohesive elements attributed to organized religion can be found elsewhere, in other ideologies and philosophies, good or bad. It's done more to erect barriers than tear them down, that's for sure. Knowing people, we would find other reasons to kill each other, religion is just a particularly nasty beast.

By proxy, social animals cooperate when there's no indication they practice any form of religion. Why would they need to?

The trick is to demonstrate how our cooperation is any different from dolphins working together to catch fish, or monkeys when they pool their efforts to increase their own chances of survival. If you mean cooperate on a macro-scale, sure, people get behind anything, football teams for instance. Us VS Them mentality rules.