08-25-2011, 10:25 PM
(08-25-2011, 10:16 PM)cladking Wrote: Cool.
I'm increasingly convinced that the so called Egyptian religion was really simple science.
People don't realize how much ancient lore is really mathematics and science. Most religions developed to either 1.) make up for a shitty life by promising life after death, 2.) explain natural phenomena before it had been completely understood (or named, as the Taoists say).
Magicians were scientists. Mystics of all religions were mathematicians. Once you put something in writing and other people learn to read it, you lose a lot of the initial mystery. Like Dick and the theory of evolution. It isn't GodMagick, it's just the way things work. That's why nutfucks hate science. It kills gods of all kinds...