What are your thoughts about the huge, earthquake-proof megalithic stone structures around the world, the planned cities of the Indus civilisation, the astronomical alignment and knowledge of precession with which the pyramids of Egypt were built, the lack of a 'developmental era' in the ruins of the ancient Egyptians, as if they built their civilisations using technology already available to them, that the erosion on the Sphinx indicates that it probably existed at the time of the Great Flood, and thus predates the pyramids by thousands of years, and so on? To my mind, these societies seem technologically quite advanced. I agree that the Antikythera mechanism device is but a mechanical device from our current technological perspective, but we have yet to discover far more about the civilisations of the past, and there may be many more superior technologies of the past patiently waiting to be discovered.
Samiya On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:10 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > > > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > > > > The suffering in much of western asia is elective. These guys trample over > each others heads to get to heaven, or Janah, a paradise of girls, with > wine drinking permitted there. Its unnecessary, but the payoff promised is > far, too, great, to stop. Theres no incentive to stop, because jihad is the > way upwards. They do have truces, used to re-arm, called a hudna, but its > designed not to last. Janah is the eternal home for those loyal to Allah, > so they sacrifice this world, for the much, better, next one. > > > > That is your opinion. As someone, who, unlike you has actually visited and > lived in that (and other) regions I see your views regarding the > existential attitudes of other people as being stereotypical and rooted in > your ignorance. History is long and swings back and forth on the matter of > who currently holds the mantle of the most shocking barbarity… let us not > forget the level of European and American brutality is quite remarkable, as > evidenced by history… the poison gas trench warfare of WWI, the gas ovens > of the Nazis, the fire-bombing of Dresden. That is recent… haven’t even > gotten medieval on you yet. You should read sometimes, just how incredibly > murderous and cruel some of our illustrious ancestors were. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > [email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Dec 7, 2014 04:10 PM > Subject: RE: World's oldest computer may be older than previously thought > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]?>] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb > *Sent:* Sunday, December 07, 2014 10:27 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: World's oldest computer may be older than previously > thought > > > > On 12/7/2014 4:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > We are better for the survival, but we might be astonished for the quality > of life, even of the poors. It is very hard to judge. We have much more > depression and suicides, we have much more elderly people abandoned by > their family. We have much more fake conviviality and superficial > happiness. We have new fears and new subject of despair (like atomic bombs, > pollution, prohibition, ...). I just mean that I am not completely > persuaded that the technological progresses made us more happy. > > > Of course there's not much depression and suicide in Syria - because > there's so much grief and homicide. > > > > Having lived in a war zone I can affirm that the Syrian people have been > deeply traumatized by their recent experiences. I am sure that the people > of Syria are suffering immensely, and that they have been psychologically > damaged and that their society will be experiencing PTSD after-shocks – > resulting from the extreme trauma of brutal sectarian war -- for decades to > come. > > I feel so bad for anyone whose life becomes imprisoned in such a hell of > hate and death that is the inevitable result of a state of war. I can close > my eyes and still picture the soul dead eyes of the victims of war.. too > numbed by their anguish, grief and pain to show any outward signs of life…. > Their bodies burned, broken and maimed by the industrial scale technology > of death visited upon them and their villages from the sky. > > I am positive that there is and will be a massive uptick in clinical > depression and other psychological trauma such as uncontrollable outbursts > of PTSD driven rage and so forth, in Syria over the next four or five > decades as a result of this horrible sectarian war. Even if it is not > diagnosed as being clinical depression and remains closeted in the > unreported regions of the visible reported society as we outsiders can view > it… it is there right now latent and locked up in all the unbelievable > grief that so many Syrians must be feeling right about now. > > War is terrible, as anyone who has seen it (and is not a blood lusting > psychopath) will say. War leaves behind masses of human wrecks, both > physical wrecks, broken maimed, burned bodies.. and psychological wrecks. > War is hell, and the costs of war continue to accrue long after the war has > “ended”. > > -Chris > > > > Brent > We are all happy, if we but knew it. > --- Dostoevski > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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