03-30-2012, 12:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2012, 12:52 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(03-30-2012, 11:52 AM)ShinAr Wrote: We have. And we continue to do so. many have gone on before us having been through this place you now dwell on. And many more will come behind us to go through it all over again.
Yes, I see your point. This place we call earth is just a station we are passing through. But I am talking about racial memory. Normally, human beings would- as a collective- learn from their mistakes and each new generation would build upon the wisdom of the ancestors, and/or Ancients as you may call them.
In this place we have come to disregard the wisdom of the ancients. Humans seem to feel this doesn't apply to us. We seem to have some sort of collective amnesia which prevents us from acknowledging our past, and learning from it.
For example, rarely do three generations go by before people get whipped back up into a warlike frenzy. Has war ever solved anything in the history of the human race? Ever? Did Sargon succeed in his mission to rule the world through war and submission? Did Cyrus? Did Alexander? Did Caesar? Did Bush? Did any of the Kings, Pharaohs, Popes, and Presidents succeed? No, they did not. Yet each of them thought- I will be the one to succeed where others have failed. And each of them found a willing army of human beings- ready to slay their brothers and sisters... for... what? "Glory"?
Why do you suppose that is?
Quote:It is a process, and one in which we are caught up in this frame of mind at this time.
What you are trying to do is draw that proverbial line.
No, not exactly. I agree yes, it is a process. Perhaps a necessary process (though I don't really think so). The point is that a process is supposed to result in progress. Not the continual building up of civilizations only to have them repeatedly destroyed by war, famine, and disease.
Quote:It is natural for us to tend toward setting limits and basing existence upon our logical understanding of it.
What we should be doing is trying to find our natural in the supernatural so we do not make those mistakes.
So then, putting those two statements together, we should be trying to set limits on the supernatural?