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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9607928" data-attributes="member: 58172">One cant engineer a religion, just like one cant engineer a dream. The dream is what it is.Regarding the Assyrians, there was an emergence of ancient predatory economies. The food and other resources to sustain its own population required seizing it from other populations. Moreover the loop of violence would conquer new populations then force those populations into militaries which in turn needed to conquer yet more populations in order for the economy to perpetuate.Predatory economies began emerging during the Bronze Age, but it is the Classical Age (Persia, Greece, Rome) that became truly extreme. Analogous predatory economies emerged in other regions of the planet as well.The culture required war to persist, so the dreamlike religion results in a holistic synthesis of this, making war a spiritual imperative.(Where a religion is a dream of a culture, it occurs to me 'lucid dreaming' may somehow relate to 'enlightenment' experiences.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9607928, member: 58172"] One cant engineer a religion, just like one cant engineer a dream. The dream is what it is. Regarding the Assyrians, there was an emergence of ancient predatory economies. The food and other resources to sustain its own population required seizing it from other populations. Moreover the loop of violence would conquer new populations then force those populations into militaries which in turn needed to conquer yet more populations in order for the economy to perpetuate. Predatory economies began emerging during the Bronze Age, but it is the Classical Age (Persia, Greece, Rome) that became truly extreme. Analogous predatory economies emerged in other regions of the planet as well. The culture required war to persist, so the dreamlike religion results in a holistic synthesis of this, making war a spiritual imperative. (Where a religion is a dream of a culture, it occurs to me 'lucid dreaming' may somehow relate to 'enlightenment' experiences.) [/QUOTE]

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