RE: The dawn of civilization
December 13, 2018 at 2:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2018 at 3:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Uncle Ogg was a pessimist.
The ultimate irony of religious origins...for all the studious pontificating..is that it's just as intuitive as all early religion was - wonderfully expressed above. The origin of religious thought has very little to do with overarching themes - that came much later, to understand where religion initially came from..one only has to think locally...very....very....... locally. Forget everything you know..and imagine yourself as a person wandering through the wilds high on shrooms and unidentified toxic plants one third of the time, starving and chasing and fucking another third, and feverish from dental issues for the remainder.
Account for periods of balls out dreaming between all of the above.
Now..let's take bets on how ridiculous Agnosticos "thoughts" are going to be, if he ever gets around to sharing them.
I'm 50/50 between "aliens" and "it's twue..it's twue...it's twue!"
-aaand since this is mah shit...returning back to a comment on megaliths, from earlier. My property has a gorgeous rock face. Devonian sea detritus. I would -and have- built installations of small cairns and larger standing stones for no religious reason. I just wanted to build them. I like them ( I do alot of knapping and clay firing too..maybe somebody will mistake my house for a neolithic site someday in the post apocalyptic future). Point is...it's never safe to assume that megaliths are explicitly religious....though we can at least say that it took alot of people to build them back in the day. They didn't have winches and engines like I do. Or, for that matter...all of my glorious free time as a late stage chemical agriculturist, lol.
The ultimate irony of religious origins...for all the studious pontificating..is that it's just as intuitive as all early religion was - wonderfully expressed above. The origin of religious thought has very little to do with overarching themes - that came much later, to understand where religion initially came from..one only has to think locally...very....very....... locally. Forget everything you know..and imagine yourself as a person wandering through the wilds high on shrooms and unidentified toxic plants one third of the time, starving and chasing and fucking another third, and feverish from dental issues for the remainder.
Account for periods of balls out dreaming between all of the above.
Now..let's take bets on how ridiculous Agnosticos "thoughts" are going to be, if he ever gets around to sharing them.
I'm 50/50 between "aliens" and "it's twue..it's twue...it's twue!"
-aaand since this is mah shit...returning back to a comment on megaliths, from earlier. My property has a gorgeous rock face. Devonian sea detritus. I would -and have- built installations of small cairns and larger standing stones for no religious reason. I just wanted to build them. I like them ( I do alot of knapping and clay firing too..maybe somebody will mistake my house for a neolithic site someday in the post apocalyptic future). Point is...it's never safe to assume that megaliths are explicitly religious....though we can at least say that it took alot of people to build them back in the day. They didn't have winches and engines like I do. Or, for that matter...all of my glorious free time as a late stage chemical agriculturist, lol.
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