What is "human nature"?

>>666866
A thought-terminating cliche.

>>666866
A sign that you've done no reading before posting.

>>666866
To worship God.

Before this whole discussion opens up I just want to get it out of the way: morals form a huge part of your perception of reality, and those morals are formed from religion.

>>666884
>>666880
t. edgy marxists

>>666866
the nature of humans i.e. rational animality

>>666888
It's hilarious how atheists ignore the Christian origins of 'secular' humanism.

>>666890
Idiot.

>>666916
It's hilarious how Christians ignore the pagan origins of their entire religion

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The collective functioning of all of the brain's modules. Not well understood scientifically, but can be learned through experience.

Human nature is torn between the self and the collective, the collective being morality and the self being our natural inclination to be immoral.

In the end even morality is a self serving device that gives the individual the safety of the group.
This is what "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" explains. When a person has enough power, generally political in nature, that he no longer needs morality for safety, he tosses it away.

a collection of habits

>>666938
Indeed, everyone is a fucking idiot.

>>666866
The human condition is defined as "the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality."

>>666866
Acting like a monkey even though you know better

>>666887
Essentially this. To exalt the divine by becoming divine.

>>667466
t b h

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Pretty much this

>>666866
Will, Reason, narcissism whatever you want to call those synonyms

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