12-16-2025, 02:53 PM
(12-16-2025, 02:34 PM)argentus Wrote: Yes, and they wrote about what they saw, and what they felt, combined with the mythos of their culture and others. It intrigues me those various cultures of old such as the Sumerians documented orbital mechanics and distant objects which they could not have possibly been able to see from the surface of Earth.
In college I decided to reread the Holy Bible and highlight it whenever I read a passage that resonate to me as definite "science". Wellll........ Fairly soon, there was as much highlighted as not. "The Bible is not interpretive" I've been told, "it is to be taken literally." Okeydoke. Still, I can put myself into the waywaywayback mindset of a person who had never witnessed modern technology, and then describing the wheels within a wheel of Eziekel. I still have that KJV Bible. It is very illuminating.
Phenomenological language.
They wrote about how things appeared to them.
After all, they could do no more.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
