posted on Dec, 2 2022 @ 06:36 AM
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: KindraLabelle2
Then they sent the witches...
Witches will never catch a nimble little imp like you, too many tricks.
I liked your premise and was disappointed it got a little lost as time went on. It was still a good thread.
There are many that claim, and some evidence I haven't been able to thoroughly vet, that Jesus was traveling in India. I don't know if there's any
real evidence who he traveled with, but it would seem likely it would have been people in that niche that gypsies ended up filling. There are also
some that say the Roma may have originated in Egypt, where Jesus was in his youth and hooked up with some group. That would make a lot of sense to me
based on reading the gospels as a non-Christian. Adjusted to the time/custom and language, Christ seemed to promote a very Eastern/Indian philosophy.
There's also a great deal of hard-nosed science that seems to point to these ancient cultures knowing some pretty far out things that we're "just
learning".
Rome took over the church and made some adjustments to scripture to more deeply enforce their rule. Perhaps having never been believers they were
dismissing the claims of "magic". Maybe they knew and were afraid of what that information was capable of. Seemingly each generation has managed to
corrupt some aspect of ancient knowledge across the whole civilized world.
As the gypsies moved through Europe they kept getting run off. Their constant travel through hostile territory never allowed them to achieve the
quantum cohesion necessary to perform big magic. If you imagine going through India among whole cities of believers, all that collective belief, it
would make magic part of the fabric of the landscape. Those with the knowledge could use that to perform miracles. As the reach of progress rolled
across the whole planet both the knowledge and collective belief faded away.
Now we have sufficiently stigmatized religion to make spirituality itself taboo. Science keeps pushing us closer to some profound answers about
reality and culture keeps pushing us in the opposite direction. Culture wants us to keep getting more stuff while science is telling us the stuff we
already have may not be real by our definition. I think science has a long way to go and no matter how far it does there will always be a tiny gap of
faith. It may get smaller as science gets better, but there will always be a gap of faith. On that event horizon belief becomes reality. The best most
of us can do is catch momentary glimpses of the event horizon. Those that touch it are the ones that still know how to perform magic.
The further back things go the more flexibility I find myself having about the possibilities. I'm definitely not sold on our history being quite as
mundane or as short as most believe.