Before clocks, there were candle clocks, that when burned, effectively indicated the passage of periods of time especailly indoor and at night.
To set an alarm, you just pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder at that time.
Something tells me that Boru still uses this clock
To set an alarm, you just pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder at that time.
Something tells me that Boru still uses this clock
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"