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Kenny, when it comes to sex, there are no myths
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Yeah, but sex came long before humans.
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10 Most Important Events in Human History:
Atlantis & Lemuria sink into ocean, releasing human slaves from their service to Atlantean overlords and allowing sentience and free will to develop. Telepathic communion with earth-spirits allows creation of the great pyramids & Stonehenge, which are used as combination astronomy guides & clocks. Development of calendars and star charts used for sailing. Aliens bring agriculture and other technological advances, inspiring the Nazca drawings in Peru. Romans attempt & fail to take over British Isles, mostly due to interference by pixies. They retaliate with a slur campaign against all psychic talents, resulting in deaths of millions of telepaths and telekinetics over then next couple-thousand years. Last of the Atlantean scrolls at Alexandria destroyed; humanity loses most public confirmation of its origins. Religious propaganda sweeps Europe & Middle East, converting images of alien benefactors to "saints with halos." Contact with aliens fraught with misunderstandings, causing loss of technology and sciences. Dark ages. Continent-wide plagues and famines caused by conflicts of interests between different factions of alien breeding program. Monks discover that telepathic, clairvoyant, and time-reading powers can be awakened by meditation and various physical privations. Beginning of return of Atlantean technology in pockets of Europe: clocks, printing, gunpowder, teleportation machines. (These last are suppressed by governments, and eventually destroyed in the witch-burning crazes. The extensive documentation in the Voynich manuscript is preserved, but the translation key is lost.) Alien breeding program nears completion; humanity allowed to develop effective birth-control technology & quick world-wide travel and communications. Orbital mind-control lasers convince US presidents to wage war on the region where the last vestiges of proof of aliens exist. If certain landmarks are destroyed, we will lose all possible confirmation of our true history and be at the mercy of propaganda-machines by hostile alien forces. |
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I was actually thinking the discovery of religion would top the list of "most destructive" discoveries...
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We have not (yet) eradicated ourselves ....
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don't take it up to me, please. I am deeply involved with all this at a totally subconscious level. Pure instinctive and intuitive reactions. No reasoning nor acquired knowledge except from deep inside. How it got there, or if it was there since who knows when, I could not care less. It just is.
But it all makes complete sense to me. When I first saw on a TV documentary Orion moved back by 25 thousands years and its belt made coincident with the pyramids, I just felt very warm. And more like that. Take care. |
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Ten most important events? I think we can assign language, stone tools and fire/cooking to pre-hominds.
Then for humans we have (in rough date order): clothes (100,000+ years ago) art (40,000+ years ago) sewing/thread (30,000+ years ago) agriculture (20,000+ years ago) pottery (18,000+ years ago) domesticated animals (17,000+ years ago) weaving (10,000+ years ago) metal smelting (8,000+ years ago) currency (7,000+ years ago) writing (6,000+ years ago) There are, of course, many recent events that might be worth adding to the list if we made a longer list than just ten. For example: moveable type printing (ca 1,000+ years ago) steam power (ca 300 years ago) germ theory of disease (ca 200 years ago) But it gets a lot harder to judge these recent events. |
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