religion used to promise a heaven for those who did good, and hell for those who do evil

life taught me that living well grants you admission to heaven here while you're alive, while committing things society still considers sin makes you live through hell right here on earth

cant imagine how much better/worse it gets if theres more after death

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ares623 a day ago | parent [-]

nah even ignoring religion, there was this story of if you work hard study hard listen to your parents and your teachers and people of authority you will generally wind up more-or-less okay (not rich! just _okay_, and that's okay).

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jareklupinski a day ago | parent | next [-]

its the ability to pass down stories which made us the ?best? species

editing seems to be an emergent property :P

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skinfaxi 21 hours ago | parent [-]

One very powerful quality of oral tradition is the malleability of the narrative which is lost when things are committed to the written word.

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cowlevel 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

	▲	skinfaxi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do you think we don't live in the world you describe? We are rewriting history constantly. You can always paper over artifacts with new ones.

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SoftTalker 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is still true.

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ares623 17 hours ago | parent [-]

GenZ around the world would beg to differ.

	▲	SoftTalker 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ask any employer, what value do they put on an employee who shows up on time, works while at work, and doesn't bring a lot of personal political agendas or psychological baggage with them. Do that, and you can always find a job.