RE: Why Btonze Age?
July 1, 2016 at 4:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2016 at 5:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm sure. You'll find a vocal doubter in every culture we have history for, and people like that don't arise out of a vacuum (in some cultures it was it's own little thing). Now sure, you're going to find tons of peasants who believe this or that portion of a story, but they've probably heard it more than once, and more than one way. They understand, at the least, that embellishment occurs. They did it themselves. We still do it today.
You have to keep in mind, that these were anatomically and culturally modern human beings. The idea that they were ignorant pre-sapien fuckwads hiding from lightning is a story that christers, largely, told after they were finished gutting any contranarrative history they could find. This was useful to them, for many years, and became useful to empires and colonial powers for a long time after that. It's never been true.
There were and have always been people -just like you-, who know when they're being told a tall tale. Recall what the greeks had to say regarding their own myths, and what the romans had to say regarding the ignorant superstitions of the christians. Even christians, from the very beginning, were calling bullshit on each other (and they continue that grand tradition to this very day). Elsewhere in the world people like Cavarka committed to writing what you and I might mistake for a post on these very boards today before any of our current religious narratives had even been cobbled together. There is no point in history, and probably no point in pre-history, that we've ever actually been as dumb as we might imagine, or as the religious would insist. It wasn't on the backs of our idiocy or gullibility that judeo-christianity became a thing. It came by the sword, and the stake, and the gallows, and the machinery of state....by the conform-or-die mentality of the mob.
You have to keep in mind, that these were anatomically and culturally modern human beings. The idea that they were ignorant pre-sapien fuckwads hiding from lightning is a story that christers, largely, told after they were finished gutting any contranarrative history they could find. This was useful to them, for many years, and became useful to empires and colonial powers for a long time after that. It's never been true.
There were and have always been people -just like you-, who know when they're being told a tall tale. Recall what the greeks had to say regarding their own myths, and what the romans had to say regarding the ignorant superstitions of the christians. Even christians, from the very beginning, were calling bullshit on each other (and they continue that grand tradition to this very day). Elsewhere in the world people like Cavarka committed to writing what you and I might mistake for a post on these very boards today before any of our current religious narratives had even been cobbled together. There is no point in history, and probably no point in pre-history, that we've ever actually been as dumb as we might imagine, or as the religious would insist. It wasn't on the backs of our idiocy or gullibility that judeo-christianity became a thing. It came by the sword, and the stake, and the gallows, and the machinery of state....by the conform-or-die mentality of the mob.
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