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Aug. 20th, 2020 04:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
degringolade
Just a' cruising. For some reason I am holing up lately. Get off, get home, hide from the world. Can't really say why, but there you go.
Been reading about the deep dark past of late. Got to wondering about the failure of the oracles.
The big question is, were the oracles ever the real deal. Seems to me that we here in the now tend to think that everyone back then was an unwashed idiot and told lies all the time (Though in many parts of the country, that kind of thought is reserved exclusively for non-christian thought. Anything written by Christians during the same time period is obviously correct).
So I will need to wander down to a serious library soon and get access to some articles and some really dull books. Might even have to figure out how to get hold of some sources. Crap...I am too old for serious research and I don't trust executive summaries.
Knock, knock - I saw this on Latest Things
Date: 2020-08-20 12:55 pm (UTC)Research? Nonsense. Do as they did - use a Ouija board! All your answers are there - if you squint and tilt your head just right…
[A Magic 8-Ball is good too, if you ask the right questions.]
Updated to add: Remember also, Who Controls the Present, Controls the Past - predictions “discovered” after the fact are commonplace. One example comes to mind: In 1910 a book came out called Titan, wherein an ocean liner of that name strikes an iceberg and sinks - but with insufficient lifeboats, so the First Class passengers abandon the steerage passengers to drown like rats. Amazingly, the book describes RMS Titanic herself and those tragic events two years later with eerie accuracy - even to the name!
… Well, no. The book was a Socialist parable using an existing situation - passenger liners travelled that route daily and in April icebergs were a literally routine occurrence - and in the first printing of the book Titan’s measurements &c. were nowhere near the real ship, just made up for the story. Subsequent and all further printings “corrected” this awkward discrepancy. Behold! Prophecy! Yeah, sure.