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Chapter 19: It's Difficult to Distinguish Ghosts and Gods (Part 2)

Based on this time, it is the time when various gods are born all over the world.

The Dead Sea Scroll on parchment may be written in arid land thousands of miles away; the ancient Shu Kingdom crossed the wet and rich land of the jungle to the south, and Buddhism and Jains, which opposed the caste system, were flooded like wildfires; the heavenly emperor was still the only true god in the land of Xia, and the King of Chu was still hoping that the ladder of heaven would not break; on the broken Greek land, the gods on Mount Olympus were still protecting the city-state that believed in them; the sacred fire of Mazda was accompanied by the burning of the expanded Persian Empire.

Myths and religion are not the same thing, but they are constantly tangled.

I feel that being a god is not interesting and having a good temper is not enough. I think it's easy to travel through time once, and I always have to have enough temper.

The ultimate God can do is nothing more than creation.

If creation is something like "God said that there should be air, so he divided water into upper and lower into air", I feel that I can do it now.

However, the quality is not enough.

Because organizations that rely on people gather together can have the qualifications to allow God to exist or not.

Shi knew that with the development of productivity and with the new technologies he brought, the days when the world islands were connected would come sooner and earlier.

It is inevitable that those religions spread to the lands of the Xia Dynasty. People always have to have a certain spiritual life.

What he wanted to do was not to use holy war to expel heretics and pagans, but when one day these religions inevitably spread to Zhuxia, whether it was temples, temples, churches, or the exterior walls of the Holy Fire Hall, such slogans with Zhuxia characteristics were painted: Without the certification of the ink master, there would be no Buddha, god, or lord...

At this time, faith such as Emperor of Heaven, God, ghosts and gods cannot be completely lost to the people.

Even the beliefs of God and ghosts and gods with higher cultural levels still exist among the Mo people, nobles, kings, gods and ghosts.

All this can only be done slowly.

Myths and religion are not the same thing, but they are closely related.

Myths use imagination and the help of imagination to conquer, control, and visualize natural forces; myths are natural and social forms themselves that have been processed in an unconscious artistic way through the fantasy of the people.

The story of Dayu and Tushan Nujiao, which was spread by the Mozhe, was not an unconscious artistic method, but a deliberate way of doing it.

In this story of Dayu controlling the flood, there is no mountain axe, but it is replaced by the wisdom of a great witch who is well aware of the will of heaven.

He is familiar with the power of the heavenly aspirations, which is no less than the imagination being controlled by the axe that people can imagine under the productivity of the times.

Looking at the people below the audience with piety, respect and a hint of fear, I thought that the divine power at this time was just that, and productivity limited people's imagination.

If it were in the era when I lived, an excavator, a car, an airplane, and a hydrogen bomb were placed here, which were miracles, and they were all powerful gods that people could not imagine at this time, and they were higher than the magnificence of each god.

Since there are still some people who believe in the existence of ghosts and gods after all, there is no need to be no ghosts and gods at this time, as long as there is no god that can manifest itself.

The Mo people are not destined, and the Ming Ghost only hopes to restrain morality in a way similar to religion. While the Ming Ghost is not destined, he also attaches great importance to the non-destinedness and believes that human destiny can be changed by one's own efforts.

In this way, a silent religious reform can be made: it doesn’t matter whether ghosts or gods exist or not, it’s just nature and not manifested, and human destiny can be changed through one’s own efforts.

The Tianzhi has been solved because it is not the preference of the ghosts, gods, and emperors, but the public will introduced through the benefits of the people. The rest is to transform the Ming ghost.

This kind of existence that turns ghosts and gods into nature will eventually become a kind of non-existence.

This is a long process, and time is sometimes so it does not need to be so radical.

With the help of gunpowder and the widely circulated story of Dayu controlling the flood, Shi once again told a story of making up random things.

If a person masters the will of heaven, he can possess the power of the gods in myths. Those gods in myths are just some people who master the will of heaven.

He did not immediately tell the stories of his fraud before, but instead told the stories of ancient sages in front of the people.

"In ancient times, people ate raw meat and drank blood, and wild animals were always invaded by the cold winter. Suiren worshipped the Emperor of Heaven and asked the Emperor of Heaven to let the Emperor of Heaven die in winter and there was also warm sunshine at night. But the Emperor of Heaven could not change the rules of the world's movement."

"Before the demise of the sky, the heavenly ghost had already sent the heavenly ambitions they knew to everyone's mind, but it needed enlightenment to let people understand. Everyone has a treasure house in their mind, but they needed a key to open it."

"Suiren looked at the woods ignited by thunder and fire outside, saw Mars when smashing stones, and then realized the will of heaven. So Suiren could use fire. It was not cold in winter and not cold at night, so he was called a saint."

"After Suiren, there was Youchao again. At that time, the weather was cloudy and it was often raining. People lived in caves, even if there was fire, it was cold and hard to resist. Youchao saw birds weaving their nests and understood the ambition of heaven, so they learned to build houses. After that, there was no worries about lustful rain, and summer wetness was not cloudy."

"After the Chao clan, each had its own sages. By the time of Dayu, people had already understood a lot of heavenly ambitions. At that time, heavy rain was pouring, and Hechuan was blocked. Gun used the method of blocking the water and could not control the water. Dayu watched the water flow downward, finally understood the heavenly ambitions, opened up rivers, and finally cured the floods in the world..."

In the silence after the explosion, many stories of sages were slowly told, but bypassed the loud noise when Dayu opened the mountain.

But what people have heard is the myth, and what they have heard is the various sages that Shi talked about. Even if they don’t say it, many people still think of what the Mozhes want them to think of: the great witch really only realized the will of heaven. After putting the thunder that could blow up the rocks just now, she did not hide and even was blown to death.

While talking, he silently told this variant of knowledge.

The ways he mentioned to obtain the will of heaven are closely linked to the myths he made up.

In essence, idealistic dualism plus partial rationalism belongs to standard enlightenment ideas.

The foundation of enlightenment is the Renaissance, but now the summer is a time for hundreds of schools of thought to contend, so why should the revival be revived?

In addition to dualism and rationalism, these stories also incorporate some of the gifted cognition.

Here, human spirit and material things are related, but they are also separate, and are essentially idealistic.

When human knowledge is born, it is always stored in the human brain in chaos. This is the theory of talent.

But because of chaos, it cannot be expressed directly, and some special key is needed. This special key may be experience, learning, reasoning, the influence of external objects, etc.

For example, mathematics requires logic, theorems, and the first few geometric definition formulas.

For example, what technology may require is the enlightenment of existing natural principles, thereby activating chaos in the mind.

For example, those geometry, physics, etc. based on rational inference can be separated from this mythological system without any stagnation and conform to the will of heaven.

These contents have become the philosophical view of Mozhe. Compared with the various contents that Moz did not summarize, they have summarized and integrated them in their own way, and did not produce much repulsion.

As for whether the people can understand it now, it doesn’t matter. One day, they will be gradually affected by this idea, and they may not know it themselves.

With the previous explosion and the intoxicating emotions that the people heard at this time, Shi finally exposed the miracles demonstrated half a year ago to everyone.

In the surprise of everyone, everyone said: "I am not the so-called Zhu Rongxue, the Golden Crow Wing, but I know some of the heavenly ambitions and do what only those who truly have Zhu Rongxue and the Golden Crow Wing can do."

"Just like the great witch who helped Tushan Nujiao open the mountain, he could not directly ask the Emperor of Heaven to come to the world for help, but because he had mastered the will of Heaven, he could use this method to blow up Tushan and help Dayu open up blocked rivers."

"Before the heavenly ghost disappear, I hope everyone can master the will of heaven. And the highest level in the paradise is that everyone understands what they look like after mastering the will of heaven."

"Are there ghosts and gods in the world?"

"Maybe there, maybe not. But we worship ghosts and gods just to benefit. If we can master the will of heaven, why should we put our hopes on those who claim to be able to communicate directly with ghosts and gods?"

Speaking of this, he pointed to the Wu Zhu who were killed and had not been hanged. Everyone understood what he meant, and because the Mozhe gave enough hope and the good weather this year, he was not angry.

Shi then apologized, and everyone accepted Shi's apology and asked, "So if a person has mastered the will of heaven, can he still make it rain in places where it does not rain?"

Shi smiled and said, "All things in nature are in line with the will of heaven. I cannot explain to you why it rains. Then I cannot let the place where it does not rain for the time being. But I can make ice on this hot day."

He diverted everyone's attention and temporarily made ice with saltpeter, passing it to everyone to watch. In their surprise, they believed what they said.

Perhaps, one day someone will know why the rain falls, and it will be worry-free.

Since even ice can be made by Tianzhi in such weather, what else is impossible?

Hot and cold, summer and winter, drought and rain are all the same relative relationship in the eyes of everyone. As long as one thing can be solved, the rest seems to be able to be solved.

Shi did not talk about the principle of unity to prevent rain and drought, but only talked about ghosts and gods and heavenly ambitions.

Looking at these people who already believed in his words, I knew that there were no words like ghosts and gods at this time, because the Mo Master had not yet unified his thoughts, and he could not do anything by himself. He had to rely on the power of the Mo Master, so he could only make corrections secretly.

"It is difficult to distinguish between ghosts and gods. The Mo people, Confucian scholars, Yang Zhu, and Lie Yuko, argue about such issues every day."

"You know that Mozhe is not destined to be destined and thinks that there is no destiny in heaven. The reason is also very simple, because it can be verified."

"But how do ghosts and gods verify it?"

“It is difficult to verify ghosts and gods.

"However, those who claim to be able to communicate with ghosts and gods can be verified."

"The Mozhe cannot communicate directly with ghosts and gods, but it can verify whether those people can really communicate with ghosts and gods, just like these witches who make money."

"A person who doesn't go to the kitchen may not be unable to know whether the food is delicious. That's the reason."

"A great witch who can truly communicate with Zhu Rong will definitely not be poisoned by Zhu Rong's blood, and will definitely turn into fire, water and fire blend together, and will not be afraid of fried. I can't do it, I can only rely on Tianzhi to use the power of heaven and earth to pretend that it can be done, but the Mozhe can verify whether others are truly communicating with Zhu Rong or just relying on Tianzhi to deceive everyone."

"Can there be such a person? There may be, or there may not be. If there is, it is best that we will worship him; if there is no but we claim to have it, it will definitely be to make money or to harm the world."

"As such people, like these witches, will insult your daughters, plunder your money, and burn your children, but you will still have trust and respect for them."

"Will you be deceived like this again?"

After receiving the unwilling answer from everyone, he retreated aside and Mozi read out the first special order in the name of the Pei County Government.

"Whoever claims to be able to communicate with ghosts and gods in Peiguo Township can be reported to Peiguo Township. Anyone who is verified to commit fraud will be rewarded with 400 yuan. Anyone who is verified to be authentic will also be rewarded with 400 yuan. Anyone who is verified to be false will be treated for 20 years of labor."

"Anyone who is verified as true can be issued by the ink person to draft a famous book of silk. Those who claim to themselves without it must verify it first."

"The Mo loves both the same, and this is also to love the world, including those who may claim to be able to reach the heavenly gods. If they are tested first, they cannot harm them. It is better than killing them like these witches and prayers. "

After Mozi finished speaking, he said to Mo'er near the gallows behind him: "Punish the execution."
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