[qq=Besimudo]Never said that. Just that myth was a mode of description. it is our core. myths appear everywhere. [/qq]

A method of description which gets you nothing. Any more than spraying bullets at a bullseye, drawing a circle around 3 that happen to be close together, and forming a religion out of it gets you anything.

[qq]Somebody denying myth is about as good as an evangelist denying natural evolution. We have polarized our knowledge bases.

Scientist: Logical, reproducible, real

Priest: irrational, fictional, myth

Yet, two striking contradictions are ever present: Scientist, inspired inventor and Priest, leader of humanity.

Humanity is real, inspiration is not ... it comes from the mind. [/qq]

I have no idea what this means. Define "humanity" for starters.

[qq]Big assumptions here ... people lived into their 80's in the past. In fact Jeanne Clement smoked and contradicted medicine to live until 122. Your Gaussian rhetoric tries to fit the bell curve on everything. Plain and simple.[/qq]

I believe I can show that the average human lifespan has been increasing steadily over time, in accordance with medical advances. However you seem not to believe in statistics, so it may be fruitless.

Are you claiming that a single anecdotal case of a person living to 122 years invalidates all of medical science? That is patently absurd. Anecdotal evidence is next to worthless. There are often exceptions to every pattern, but they do not invalidate the millions of counter-examples.

[qq]And, astrology is a computer. Your knowledge of Megalithic achievement is lacking. Also see the Aztec predictions of downfall. [/qq]

I would ask you to enlighten me, but that would imply that I consider that what you're saying has even the slightest chance of being true. Unless you are using "computer" in a metaphorical sense. I know what megaliths were used for in terms of playing with seasonal patterns and star patterns etc. It is so rudimentary compared to a real computer that the analogy is not feasible.

Please also note that there has been no downfall that I am aware of, so any predictions of such are as yet wrong. Unless they predicted their own downfall.

[qq]Indeed I am. Most of our drugs are hijacked from native people.[/qq]

I don't know much about biological science, but I find this to be dubious to say the least.

[qq]Anyhow, What about CANCER OOPS. That just collapsed your modern hypothesis. [/qq]

Again, are you claiming that a single uncured disease invalidates all of medical science? This is not nearly a valid argument. How about the thousands of diseases which we can cure now that we never could before?

And we do have methods of treating and even curing certain types of cancers. Can herbs and astrology do better? To answer myself, no, they can't.

[qq=Odaisé Gaelach]Seriously, does this thread even have a point?[/qq]

The promotion of mysticism, apparently. It doesn't have a point insofar as mysticism is a bunch of nonsense, almost by definition. Honestly I think responding to this seriously may be giving it more credit than it deserves. But I hate to see this kind of thing spread around unchallenged.