(December 2, 2012 at 6:14 pm)Dax Wrote: I'm not sure if this kind of thread has been made before or if this even is the right part of the forum for this. Either way here it goes.
This is something I often ask myself and I think it's a pretty interesting topic to explore.
Imagine for a second, a world (dimension if you will) where religion never got the same hold of humanity as in "our world".
How do you think such a thing would affect the scientific and technological advancements of humanity? For example, if Christianity never was made up there would have been no dark ages to suppress science and medicine for 500 years, what would the effects of those events have been?
One idea, one I find very likely is that if since science and medicin never had such a setback maybe we'd be at a level of technology and knowlege today equal to 500 years into the future from now.
Of course there could have been other events leading to totally different outcomes but the main idea here is that this "other dimension" never was affected by religon nearly as much.
Anyway, let the brainstorming commence!
If ifs and butts were candy and nuts.
If the city of Alexandria had never been burnt down. If ancient Rome and Greece had not failed eventually, we certainly would have been more advanced.
This is not a new question by any means. It all amounts to shit happens and yes "if" this and "if" that. But what happened happened.
None of your question would change the reality that conflict would still exist and the only way to reduce conflict is to shift the focus on clubs and labels and shift it to our common condition. But even then, you are still talking about a species that groups and finds safety in numbers.
So life still amounts to a crap shoot and you just try to reduce the harm and maximize the benefit.
