reply to post by undo
I have viewed this in the past as the blind eye of science or an epistemic subjugation all because of fear. Now I am beginning to see this as a mass
collective amnesia. I believe that we are the people that lost their memory and this may be proof of some of the path we took.
Originally posted by Serbsta
It poses the question, in the mission of dismissing these ancient texts as pure fabrications of events, to what extent did the Church and others
involved go to in order to suppress/destroy/manipulate evidence?
This has been, by far, the most difficult thing for me to get over. The crimes that were committed, and still are, by the "church" under the guise
of religion over the past 2,000 years is horrifying. Doing research on the Natives of the Americas will show some really terrible stuff. The
destruction of thousands of years of information all destroyed because of fear, the murder of millions for the purpose of conformity...it's enough to
make anyone sick!
Originally posted by undo
as far as the mainstream is concerned, every text of every ancient culture, is a metaphor and a lie.
This is true only until the literal translation is more outlandish. The Gods were supernatural, celestial beings but when they started swallowing
their children they are depicted as humans and then it becomes a literal translation.
Originally posted by Matyas
I have found the Church has made valiant attempts to preserve rather than destroy original knowledge. Only the egregious errors stand out in memory,
such as the destruction of the Popol Vuh and others, but we have not time to recount sins
I have to totally disagree with these comments. My whole life growing up on the West Coast I have been aware of a terrible prejudice against the
American Natives. The treatment of those today, their ancestors, culture, language and beliefs have always been ridiculed and considered worthless.
Try and find anything on Native American culture, I have personal friends that are Native American and many of them don't know their own culture (or
they're not telling me). I feel utter shame every time I talk to them about their ancestry.
Do a little research on the Aztecs in Central America from the 16th-18th centuries. Over 100 years of brutal suppression and slavery by the Catholic
church and the only things that remain are a handful of documents and codices and what could not physically be destroyed like pyramids.
Nothing
else remains!
We
must remember where we have been,
never forget. The only way we will ever be able to understand anything is if we are brave enough to
look at things for what they are,
Never hind the truth!