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Bretton Garcia

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6. Or good vs. bad anything at all.

Reply to edhopper (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 12, 2019, 09:02 AM

Nov 2019

Probably that, binary thinking, goes all the way back to the origins of life. Any protoplasmic blob could extend a pseudopod toward an object it thought was good, food. Only to find out it was a dangerous object. Reasonably advanced organisms could store, remember, that information. Remembering a "good" impulse. vs. a bad one.

Higher-order thinking though, knew that things aren't always quite so black and white. Maybe that terrible broccoli is good for us. And all that sugar, that tasted so good, turns out to not be as good as we thought as kids.

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Greasemonkey Griffin [View all] Cartoonist Nov 2019 OP

it started long ago in the garden of eden ...... rampartc Nov 2019 #1

Who was the serpent's counterpart? Cartoonist Nov 2019 #2

It seems to come from the earliest days of Christianity edhopper Nov 2019 #3

I would agree that angels are a Christian invention Cartoonist Nov 2019 #4

Maybe edhopper Nov 2019 #5

Or good vs. bad anything at all. Bretton Garcia Nov 2019 #6

Terrible broccoli? eom guillaumeb Nov 2019 #8

& stop buying so much religious sugar Bretton Garcia Nov 2019 #9

The concept of demons, or devils is present in Zoroastrianism. guillaumeb Nov 2019 #7