08-12-2010, 05:47 PM
(08-12-2010, 02:28 PM)Maggot Wrote: People are strange.
Indeed.
We are a very perverse lot.
But this gets back to the bad turn we took. I'm not sure of the nature of the turn nor the cause but the cause might be related to the story in the Bible of the Tower of Babel. I wonder if man didn't used to think a lot differently and use language differently. Suddenly we changed and it might have been cued by writing on a structure or something of the nature.
When we had Gods for everything we knew we were ignorant and dependent on those Gods for our very survival. But at least in modern times people have the concept that we know everything. Oh sure, maybe they personally don't know but there's someone somewhere who has it.
Actually we don't really know anything more about what causes gravity than the great pyramid builders knew. Shu was the God of Upward and Tefnut was the Goddess of Downward. They knew that thing Shu affected were eventually taken by Tefnut. But they weren't foolhearty enough to believe they could understand the Gods.
Sir Isaac Newton studied the pyramids because he believed the secret of gravity was encoded in it by the builders. Ironically he actually found and translated a corrolary to his third law of motion but didn't know it. The builders said everything you need to know about gravity and building pyramids right at the entrance. Well, at least there's an equation that could be potential energy equals kinetic energy.
The problem for the last 4000 years is everyone knows every damn thing. One person knows there's a God and another knows there isn't. Why wouldn't there be conflict and war when we're all working at cross purposes and are omnicient. We just don't notice that everyone has always been wrong in the past and this could apply to our sorry asses too.