reply to post by jjf3rd77
I thought about making a detailed rebuttal of your post more than once, but it isn’t worth the trouble, is it? It sounds as if you were raised by
two TV sets and went to school on the internet.
Scientists
never say ‘it just happened’. Nobody has feared the Catholic church – saving Catholics, of course – since Henry VIII sacked
the monasteries and married that Boleyn woman anyway. When we say that Sumerian civilisation was technologically advanced, we mean they had writing,
primitive algebra and the wheel. We know a lot about Sumerians because they have left behind various remains, not just writing.
A Ph.D in, say, biochemistry, does not make someone an expert in Atlantean legends, astrophysics or anything else excepting biochemistry. Knowledge
nowadays is very specialised and a savant in one field is quite likely to be an ignoramus in others, as easily duped as any layman. Scientists are not
afraid or reluctant to push outward the boundaries of thought: they regard that as their job.
If there is some ancient, secret key to knowledge and power, the people least likely to hold it would be political leaders, celebrities and the
super-rich. These are folk who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of power, fame or wealth, stunting their own personalities and turning
themselves into fools and monsters for the sake of the thing they prize. They are not the possessors of some wonderful secret; on the contrary, they
visibly and obviously do not have a clue about what is really worth having in life. They have only one standard by which to judge the value of
anything – friendship, beauty, laughter, an act of kindness, a gift, an injury – and that standard is utility, measured as potential progress
towards their goal. These are the kind of people who cannot tell the difference between a house and a home, and would put a price on life itself. They
are not to be envied or emulated, they are to be despised and pitied.
edit on 20/7/11 by Astyanax because: I mean it.
