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25 Jul 2018, 1:46 pm

Claradoon wrote:
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Considering that 99% of the world's population is NT, I'd say most broad based concepts, rituals, traditions etc are primarily NT.

Ezra! Generalizing again. Did you check that 99% before posting it? :!:


No. And he didn't look up Brittanica to make sure that "water is wet" either. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ezra was only stating the obvious. Even if his stats might be microscopically off.

98.5 percent of folks are nonautistic. The core of the population is NT (even if you redefine NT to exclude other conditions in addition to autism). So even if Ezra was using a tiny of hyperbole the basic idea he was conveying is right: that being the obvious truth that society is geared to the NT majority. Especially socializing institutions in society like religious congregations.



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25 Jul 2018, 2:51 pm

I think God, as described, is perhaps a savant. Regardless of the debate surrounding whether God does exist or not, he or she is concerned with constructing one thing, lives alone and communicates very rarely.



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25 Jul 2018, 3:47 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Claradoon wrote:
EzraS wrote:
Considering that 99% of the world's population is NT, I'd say most broad based concepts, rituals, traditions etc are primarily NT.

Ezra! Generalizing again. Did you check that 99% before posting it? :!:


No. And he didn't look up Brittanica to make sure that "water is wet" either. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ezra was only stating the obvious. Even if his stats might be microscopically off.

98.5 percent of folks are nonautistic. The core of the population is NT (even if you redefine NT to exclude other conditions in addition to autism). So even if Ezra was using a tiny of hyperbole the basic idea he was conveying is right: that being the obvious truth that society is geared to the NT majority. Especially socializing institutions in society like religious congregations.

<gasp!> You and Ezra are right! My apologies to both of you. :oops: :oops:



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25 Jul 2018, 3:49 pm

Right on, Ezra!



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25 Jul 2018, 6:31 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
"Gods," spirits, what have you, were "created" because people sought to make sense of a world which seems to go haywire sometimes.

Then, somebody came with the idea that there's a "God" who rules over all living things, and all spiritual beings.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the person who came up with all this was neurodivergent in some way.

That certainly could be, but I think the main driver that develops gods & unseen beings is that "agency detection" phenomenon.
The hyper-arousal that protected men & women for centuries, effortlessly becomes a supernatural "thing" when the physical environment reveals nothing. Coincidence, fortune and misfortune naturally become attributed to the invisible "thing" watching you as a way of making sense of apparent senselessness.
Whatever is most important to the tribe becomes what the unseen overseer is responsible for. Step 2 is trial and error to see what coincidentally seems to appease the overseer. Step 3 is profit.