later dude

"we're apes on a rock WHOA DUDE"

you will die and in 200 years, nobody living will remember you or know your name

simple as that

so what

what's your point

whether I die and turn to dust doesn't matter

to the point that for humans, our lives still need a certain framework of meaning, which is religion

humans aer nothing, there is no god, medieval philosophers realized that there could not be a god

that we perceive the world in a certain fashion

when they used aristotlian logic to disprove neo-platonism

you've gone down a different track now

in the 1100s

proving or disproving stuff, philosophy, none of it matters

religion in humanity precedes agriculture

precedes any kind of social organization

religion is basically magical thinking

there's a good case for saying that humans only got together at all

"magical thinking" is real thinking

how is it real?

they're real thoughts that people had

attributing meaning and justification to various aspects of your life

but how is it real thinking?

it's how you live anyway, without realizing it

no, most people never used magical thinking, even in pre-historic times

in their dailyt life

the thing you are calling "magical thinking" doesn't exist

yes it does

no, it would be the same as delusion

magical thinking is a delusion

the term you refer to as "magical thinking" encompasses two things

being stupid and/or crazy

and considering the world an alive thing where life matters

or that matters in some way

no life matters

I think I should elaborate on matters

all life could die and the world would not care

it would keep on orbitting around the sun

yes, but mattering is not inconsistent with that

pagans were exceptionally fatalistic

which is slowly twirling around a black hole