Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Problem w/ Science in one paragraph

In Response to analyzing Indus Script to determine if it represents a spoken language:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1374

"Once again, Science falls for a glib magic formula that purports to answer a question about language. They would not, I hope, fall for a similar hypothesis in biology. They would, I hope, be skeptical that a simple formula could account for the complex interactions within an evolutionarily built system. But somehow it escapes them that language is such a system, as are other culturally constructed symbol systems, carrying lots of specific information that cannot be captured by a single statistic."

I think this can apply to all branches of science. Not only are they capable of ignorance, but of falling in love in the new shiny thing that promises to answer all their questions.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

There's a name for it...

Panbabylonism.
School of thought within Assyriology and Religious studies that considers the Hebrew Bible and Judaism as directly derived from Babylonian culture and mythology. (Wiki)
Alfred Jeremias, in 1914, was already trying to do what I'm doing now. Create a comprehensive picture of human migration, rise of civilisations and origin of mythologies from the middle east (that sounded awesome). My hope in succeeding lies in not repeating his, and his successors' mistakes. They decided to base their hypothesis on astronomy and astrology. Astronomy i can understand and can see it being a reference to how their mythologies developed and then shaped their cultures. But Astrology? That's the pseudo in science and why Aliens end up in the books about Panbabylonism now days. Until astrology can provide better dates, bodies, texts and monuments of past civilization, I'll stick to good old science. I'm not saying science is perfect, they can be dismissive of different ideas, narrow minded to the point of obsession on ideas that haven't been proven (looking at you string), but it's better than guessing with numbers and stars. I do admit that I'll speculate on a lot of things, but I'll point those out and would gladly welcome proof that would disprove any proposed hypothesis.
It's also interesting that they are showing specials on 2012 on history channel.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

A study into our Cultural Decline

I am always observing and commenting on the decline of our society, especially through the prism of our pop culture ( I watch way to much T.V.) and just finished watching Ben Lyons on E!. He was interviewing Byonce about Who knows I don't give a shit and of course i started thinking about him and what he represents to our culture. He is a Movie Blurb Whore, a phenomenon that drives me crazy insane. Great reasons of why they do are here:
http://www.stopbenlyons.com/2008/10/big-dog-smacks-down-poodle.html
and here by the great Mr. Ebert:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/10/eberts_little_rule_book.html

Well, as I was watching Mr. Lyons, the usual strong dislike started to come out until i had an insight. Instead of disliking Him i realized that he is a symptom of our Cultural decline. Not just any symptom but the final stage, and in his case it would be Movie criticism. The fact that he's the one that took over Ebert's spot and he "seems" to be America's top critic means that we have reached a "Systematic cascading failure of the system which manifests itself in the emergence of the One" and if he's a representation of the One's of our culture, we're in Deep Shit.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

In the Begining...

That is going to be the name of my new project. I don't think it'll be 100% complete for the next couple of years which is why I'm considering it a work in progress. I do hope to get the bulk of the research and presentation out as soon as possible. I think 6 months should be time long enough. The purpose of the project is to analyze and develop a comprehensive theory of the spread and rise of Totalitarian Agriculture form the middle east till today. I think it's important to focus in this area, not out of a sense to attack the people or religion but because our current mythology, which is the basis of our treatment (destruction ) of the world, originates there. That's why these are the area's I'm going to focus.
Re-examination of Genesis, in particular:
Creation myth, fall of man/original sin and Cain and Abel. This will be done with Mechanical and interlinear Translation.
Comparison to Summerian Myth's.
Tribal movements of the Area.
Development of Agriculture and animal domestication in the Area.
Climate changes that could of forced the adoption of Totalitarian Agri.
Time span between 15,000 B.C.E - 1 A.D.
There is of course other items i will include (Geological landscape and impact on human migration?) but not enough space to list all.

One of my end goals, besides gathering all this information, will be to condense it into a visual representation (Animation) and maybe a book to make millions! I would also like to state this as copyright and intellectual ownership of this Concept.

Any ideas or suggestions will be gladly accepted but this is still my idea. I will give you slight credit.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Mark of Cain

I just thought of something. I started reading into Neanderthals, can't really remember what started it, but i might of figured out what happened to human culture. Neanderthals were absorbed by humans and the descendants of this union is where the Aryan's and the "Myth" of Cain came from (Ishmael). This would explain the aggressive behaviour, the "Mark" (Fair skin, freckles, Ishmael again) and where the Idea of Agriculture came from. Just remembered, was reading an article on new discovery of three different populations of Neanderthals (USAToday). Now, a flaw is believing that agriculture came from them, but not necessarily agriculture but the aggressive behaviour behind totalitarian agri. Another Idea i have a problem with or that should be reinterpreted, is that if Neanderthals being stupid or of lower intelligence, or of being docile or less aggressive than their homo sepiens counterparts.
The timeline would be:
Neanderthals and Sapiens appear (one did not follow the other, they co-existed)
They interbreed, Neanderthals are absorbed into Sapiens.
These descendants maintains physical and psychological characteristics.
They converge in Gobleki Tepe and organize the tribes there for constructing the Temple.
To sustain the large population that begins to gather, Agriculture revolution takes place.
Totalitarian agriculture develops and is maintained because through aggressive nature of Nsapiens.
Genesis Myth is Born (garden: Gobleki Tepe, Cain: Nsapiens)
The rest we're living now.

Now, all i need is to become and Paleo-archaeologist, geneticist, Religious scholar and several decades and I'm sure i can come up with a very convincing argument.

If anyone has any ideas would be welcome to hear them.