Excellent walk through Biblical history with close attention paid to the explanations behind the mythology. One thing I wondered as a kid is whether God ever regretted his promise to never destroy the world in a flood again because Humanity 2.0 wasn't much of an improvement over the Biblical version. The Cognitive Revolution, when our brains suddenly leapfrogged over other species' brains, had a lot to do with it.
Look, I'll still lay fault at God's feet. Okay, he was really new at this world-building thing. Then again, if humanity is so awful and he can't kill us, why couldn't he step in and tweak us a bit to make us less brutal?
In fact, that's just what has happened...despite all evidence to the contrary, we actually are evolving more toward peace, but there are always some blips in the radar and they *can* be pretty fatal ones if we're not careful.
Although honestly, when I saw the replay of the Chris 'n' Will show, I saw eight year old boys rather than chimpanzees.
Then again, if chimps could speak they'd probably trash-talk each others' wives and then punch each others' lights out.
I consider one thing about our latest End of Days: We lived through the '80s, which was a dangerous time to be alive, and esp dangerous from the nuclear standpoint. We got through it. Today, I'm not at all sure a) Vladdy Putin is crazy enough to use nukes and b) Whether anyone would follow his orders if the was.
Vladdy's an old man and, as you point out, increasingly irrelevant, and he may be suffering from dementia or some other brain disorder, rather a lot like his most witless acolyte, and while The Big V may feel he has nothing to lose, the people around him are probably not yet willing to die, esp. over a country like Ukraine, and have families back home with children and grandchildren they'd like to pass the torch to. Maybe *they* can "Make Russia Great Again". ;P
And oh yeah...don't forget the Jackson State (Mississippi) killings just eleven days after Kent State...police killed two college students and injured 12 others at an all-black college.
Excellent walk through Biblical history with close attention paid to the explanations behind the mythology. One thing I wondered as a kid is whether God ever regretted his promise to never destroy the world in a flood again because Humanity 2.0 wasn't much of an improvement over the Biblical version. The Cognitive Revolution, when our brains suddenly leapfrogged over other species' brains, had a lot to do with it.
Look, I'll still lay fault at God's feet. Okay, he was really new at this world-building thing. Then again, if humanity is so awful and he can't kill us, why couldn't he step in and tweak us a bit to make us less brutal?
In fact, that's just what has happened...despite all evidence to the contrary, we actually are evolving more toward peace, but there are always some blips in the radar and they *can* be pretty fatal ones if we're not careful.
Although honestly, when I saw the replay of the Chris 'n' Will show, I saw eight year old boys rather than chimpanzees.
Then again, if chimps could speak they'd probably trash-talk each others' wives and then punch each others' lights out.
I consider one thing about our latest End of Days: We lived through the '80s, which was a dangerous time to be alive, and esp dangerous from the nuclear standpoint. We got through it. Today, I'm not at all sure a) Vladdy Putin is crazy enough to use nukes and b) Whether anyone would follow his orders if the was.
Vladdy's an old man and, as you point out, increasingly irrelevant, and he may be suffering from dementia or some other brain disorder, rather a lot like his most witless acolyte, and while The Big V may feel he has nothing to lose, the people around him are probably not yet willing to die, esp. over a country like Ukraine, and have families back home with children and grandchildren they'd like to pass the torch to. Maybe *they* can "Make Russia Great Again". ;P
And oh yeah...don't forget the Jackson State (Mississippi) killings just eleven days after Kent State...police killed two college students and injured 12 others at an all-black college.