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Originally Posted by Nammu
So.....the Jim jones of today would have been honored if born a thousand yrs earlier and created a new branch of religion instead of being persecuted causing the death of his followers? How do you explain Scientology? I don't think it is so simple as those with voices were respected in the old world and not now. I think a lot of it depends on the social and environmental times. When the world is or seems unstable then those who have voices offer a certainty. For all the war drums beating currently the world is fairly stable for most of us.
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Idk I think its more that voices were more common in the past so people could respect them as true when others heard them because of their own experience. I've heard this theory before in terms of connectivity changes in the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Still just hearing voices you know not to trust all of them no matter where they come from so I don't think there would be some sort of acceptance of anything too radical.