cladking
Well-Known Member
Words are not required as shown in my previous post
I missed that post. Are you sure it actually posted?
How does one invent, hold, or communicate a belief with no words for "belief", "thought", taxonomies, or reductionism? Do you believe that "beliefs" that spring to mind like a "thought"? They do to us but THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE WORD "thought". If a belief did spring to mind how could you communicate it to someone else without words for "belief", "thought", taxonomies, or reductionism. So now you are suggesting that the exact same belief in thousands of gods magically arose in everyone at once?
Why won't you address the actual facts instead of playing word games? I fully understand that we don't really understand the salient points here but the fact is there ius still AMPLE EVIDENCE that you never addressed that the ancients had no concept of "thinking" and you are ADDITIONALLY ignoring the fact that they had no words for "thinking". They left no evidence any of them were familiar with the idea of "thought". This all exists DESPITE THE FACT that we can't even imagine the concept of not thinking, not categorizing, not believing, and not reducing reality to concepts. We can't imagine not building models of our beliefs. We can't imagine a language that doesn't work EXACTLY LIKE OURS. We can't imagine a language that was logical, sensible, and that meant exactly what it said and it had to work exactly that way because people were not able to understand abstraction.
I can post actual evidence and logic all day long and then you're going to say "no" because you already know for a fact that ancient people were highly superstitious and scientists are the crown of creation. Your faith can't be shaken by anything and you don't even care that Egyptologists lack the data to solve how the pyramids were built. It doesn't concern you that there is NO DIRECT EVIDENCE of any sort any great pyramid was a tomb. You're not concerned that Egyptology rests on assumptions because you';re cool with the assumptions. Like everybody it is comfortable sitting at the top of the food chain and the crown of creation. Heaven forfend you should find out that the human race has devolved so far that very few of us could even be trained to help build the pyramid. We couldn't even do the most menial tasks because we couldn't learn the language. Even if we were brought up in 5,000 BC only about 80% of us could learn enough to function.
People are afraid of the concept of "ancient civilization" because on some level they know that there really was a "golden age" and this sure as hell ain't it.