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(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.
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Taoism is physics. I think that's why I'm drawn to the ancient Eastern religions.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
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(08-24-2011, 09:41 PM)Cracker Wrote: Taoism is physics. I think that's why I'm drawn to the ancient Eastern religions.
Cool.
I'm increasingly convinced that the so called Egyptian religion was really simple science.
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(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...
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
