http://www.mahabodhi.net/docs/041608.htm

I’ve found memetics to be a pretty good explanation of the popularity of such beliefs, but I’m also prepared to accept some of the arguments about an inborn tendency towards supernatural belief. Though scientists haven’t proven it yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if an area of the brain or a gene that triggers shortcut supernatural explanations of events was discovered.

Beliefs, in the religion sense, are definitely learned. You can come up with your own concepts to explain the unexplained if you like, but these do not have the status of religion. And I would suggest that very few of these beliefs are truly unique (”I believe that a ghost is haunting my house” for example merely draws in established concepts).

What originally spawned belief? This is very hard to determine, due to the lack of records. Obviously blind faith needs something to have faith in, so the belief came first. Let me put it like this: in the very beginning, natural phenomena were noted and their existence realised. Later, as human societies became more complex (date very uncertain, but certainly no more than 50,000 years ago, and probably rather later: the burial of the dead by Neanderthals is often held to be the start of religious ideas) the idea arose that, just as humans cause things to happen, perhaps something else is causing nature to “happen.” This is the origin of animistic religion, of which Shinto is a descendent in the way it teaches that everything has a spirit. Once this idea, an anthropocentric transferral of experience, takes root, it provides a system whereby these other movers – the supernatural deities – may be suitably coerced and controlled, again using the human experience to determine how this might be done. From this developed the social control of religion. So in other words religion is something that developed along with human culture, rather than being something innate from the start. And it is this process, vastly accelerated, that children go through: from a state of no belief, to questioning the world around them, and then to accepting what they are told.

“So, without man, there is no religion. But many religions teach that before man, there was nothing…”

And this is where belief and reality collide with a resounding crash.

As to the lack of curiosity, that’s not quite the same, though you raise an interesting point. It takes effort to come up with concepts for the seasons, for example, that involve gods, and where do you draw the line? Every time it rains? Every time anything happens? Many older beliefs didn’t. But to suggest that it means a lack of curiosity is to imply that curiosity is the default (which, frankly, I don’t think it is for most people) and that this still applies. Children are not born with a belief in the supernatural – it must be developed, learned. That is what I mean by the “default.” In other words, religion is a social rather than natural phenomena.

You are the only one that has implied Japanese to be any different from any other youtube language in the world. wtg.

http://www.tibetcustom.com/article.php/20080328193918219

You want some supernatural being to help you? Then go Get off this planet now and meet your supernatural thing you call god and leave the rest of us sane people on this planet alone.

Go with your god. Go! Get off this planet, NOW, and leave us in peace.

Actually, I see the deal. In many cases, the &e=ja_JP tag in the address determines the listings, which may or may not be dropped depending how you switch and what you’re looking at. If you go to jp.youtube or de.youtube, that determines nothing other than the interface language (though they do talyor the main page to this too). I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&c=22&l=&e=ja_JP
Are Japanese rankings overlaid on a English site.

But yes, I suppose there is a specific Japan ratings available, as to whatever qualifies a view to be in Japanese or something else, I remain vigilantly skeptical.

im pretty sure he went to jp.youtube.com and then went to most viewed videos today. maybe you didnt know that youtube has a seperate website for a lot of countries. well now you do.

“Please give us the film.”