RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
February 12, 2019 at 5:22 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2019 at 5:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Full modernity doesn't concern physical modernity (or that all humans shared all modern concepts). We've been physically modern for far longer than we've been fully modern. Full modernity is a term used to denote the point in pre-history where not only our bodies..but our behaviors..become recognizable to a modern observer and universal to all human society (regardless of it's official structures). We see, for example, by reference to artifacts and the skill and time it must have taken to produce them (and then the manner of their disposal)..that someone really loved some person we find in a grave. We also see the recognizable beggining of social status and how they could lead to the same (and..p[ossibly, in an abusive way) - but we can;t explain all finds in this manner, nor would it make sense to even if we could.
The long and short of it is that..yes, while society has changed in that time...you would find yourself staring at a human being that you could understand (and who could understand you..even you didn't agree with each other) for at least 50k years. These viewpoints that you see in magic book are an example of the social construct making it's case - asserting itself, against those other ideas, which also existed. That the two lovers in the song of solomon were romantically entangled but had to sneak away is the theme of the entire bit - as an example. It plays with a derived narrative older than anything in magic book.
The idea of arranged or political marriages would not have been a thing until those sorts of marriages became useful (or necesarry)..and indeed even marriage itself.....placing them well after two kids fucking in the bushes because they couldn't get enough of each other. That's never really been a big deal outside of social authority structures. Plenty of important people were arranging marriages and relationships while the less worthy all around them were pretty much bumping with whomever happened to catch their eyes for whatever reason. Those arranged marriages were, themselves, riddled with infidelity along similar lines. For as long as people have been insisting on them, people have been wringing their hands over children who didn't see the wisdom of them or people who breached that contract. We're a thoroughly well mixed population of organisms..that certainly didn't happen by a strict adherence to politically convenient breeding arrangements along the well defined lines of social authority.
The long and short of it is that..yes, while society has changed in that time...you would find yourself staring at a human being that you could understand (and who could understand you..even you didn't agree with each other) for at least 50k years. These viewpoints that you see in magic book are an example of the social construct making it's case - asserting itself, against those other ideas, which also existed. That the two lovers in the song of solomon were romantically entangled but had to sneak away is the theme of the entire bit - as an example. It plays with a derived narrative older than anything in magic book.
The idea of arranged or political marriages would not have been a thing until those sorts of marriages became useful (or necesarry)..and indeed even marriage itself.....placing them well after two kids fucking in the bushes because they couldn't get enough of each other. That's never really been a big deal outside of social authority structures. Plenty of important people were arranging marriages and relationships while the less worthy all around them were pretty much bumping with whomever happened to catch their eyes for whatever reason. Those arranged marriages were, themselves, riddled with infidelity along similar lines. For as long as people have been insisting on them, people have been wringing their hands over children who didn't see the wisdom of them or people who breached that contract. We're a thoroughly well mixed population of organisms..that certainly didn't happen by a strict adherence to politically convenient breeding arrangements along the well defined lines of social authority.
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