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

"everything will die, the end"

until it collides with another star

or runs out of nuclear fuel

okay, sure

the world could end right now

there is no allah

there is no jesus

there is no yahweh

there especially is no yahweh

lets see how you feel about it in 20 years

@fallot I see what you mean, but is it "religion"? "idealism" perhaps?

you can call it idealism if you wish, I think that term doesn't give you the actual picture of what exists and existed in mankind's consciousness

I think certain forms of idealism could supplant "religion" for a while

idealism isn't holistic

mankind's consciousness matters not. most people do not think in meta terms

how is the average person more important than an insect

or a dog?

an insect has wants and desires'

as does a stream

hey, from your framework, they are of course not any more or any less important

there is no importance or value