08-24-2011, 09:20 PM
(08-24-2011, 06:14 PM)Cracker Wrote:(08-24-2011, 12:19 AM)cladking Wrote: Ironically if I'm right about the ancients then words were immensely powerful to them and the written word was even moreso. Words had the power to open vistas of discovery and to understand nature.
That idea mirrors Taoism.
Tao te Ching chapter 1:
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
One of these days I'm going to investigate the possibility that most all ancient religions were science based and they split when Egypt collapsed causing the First Intermediate Period. Sure, there were probably some religions based on little but the occult and shamanism but most were based on observation. After the FIP western religion became faith based and eastern religions continued to evolve.
There are a lot of similar ideas between Indian, Chinese and other eastern thought and the literal meaning of the Pyramid Texts.
I can't understand the modern thinking that holds our ancestors as religious zealots who knew nothing.