10-08-2012, 01:33 PM
More very thoughtful and interesting ideas!
But gosh- I think I have done a really poor job of getting at my point with this one.
In my opinion, I wouldn't want to manipulate anybody into anything. Though I don't think influence can be helped.
What I was trying to get at was... see how easy it could have been? It probably wouldn't have taken much for a group of beings, no more evolved than we are now, to dominate the minds of our ancestors... past the point of guidance and influence, to manipulation and control.
IMO- whatever the intentions were of this group (or groups) be it "positive" or "negative" the PROBLEM would have been the vast difference in knowledge and wisdom between "they" and "us".
Therefore- should modern day humanity be presented with a similar opportunity in the near future, will we have learned the lesson? Or would we repeat history? (If in fact that was the history. It's all hypothetical, I know.)
By all means continue to discuss, but I wanted to make another attempt at clarification.
But gosh- I think I have done a really poor job of getting at my point with this one.
In my opinion, I wouldn't want to manipulate anybody into anything. Though I don't think influence can be helped.
What I was trying to get at was... see how easy it could have been? It probably wouldn't have taken much for a group of beings, no more evolved than we are now, to dominate the minds of our ancestors... past the point of guidance and influence, to manipulation and control.
IMO- whatever the intentions were of this group (or groups) be it "positive" or "negative" the PROBLEM would have been the vast difference in knowledge and wisdom between "they" and "us".
Therefore- should modern day humanity be presented with a similar opportunity in the near future, will we have learned the lesson? Or would we repeat history? (If in fact that was the history. It's all hypothetical, I know.)
By all means continue to discuss, but I wanted to make another attempt at clarification.