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Oct. 23rd, 2016 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsI wonder how people invented life after death. Many cultures have this concept and it appears that they came up with it independently from each other.
One way to think about it would be to take a Hobbesian perspective, "and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." The perspective entails lots of PTSD cases and associate with them bad dreams where dead people come back to haunt the living.
I can also see how this belief can benefit a society: it converts a one-time social transaction into a recurring one, making long-term commitments more probable.
One way to think about it would be to take a Hobbesian perspective, "and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." The perspective entails lots of PTSD cases and associate with them bad dreams where dead people come back to haunt the living.
I can also see how this belief can benefit a society: it converts a one-time social transaction into a recurring one, making long-term commitments more probable.
