The second in this series seems to be even worse. There is a great disconnect that I can't figure out (other than the fact that the show was purposely made to get eyeballs watching the flickering commercials, .. uh show)
The disconnect goes like this: This is weird, how the hell??, .... it must have been alien influences!
We can't use our ignorance to justify reaching to the stars to make the story complete. Elongated heads are just that, elongated. Why?? I don't know, I didn't live thousands of years ago, .... and neither did Bill Birnes or that knucklehead Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. Oh, ... they have something to sell?? They have a reason to believe?? It just is apparent that this conclusion is unfounded.
I was interested in the Dogon part. They do seem to have knowledge that they shouldn't have, ... unless someone told them. But who?? Well I bet you can guess who if you ask Bill Birnes or Greer. But is that the most reasonable conclusion?? These people's stories are based on oral traditions, not written. If I had seen something written that spelled out the Sirius binary system, then that would certainly be more convincing. Oral traditions are much more susceptible to pick up modern changes and coordinate them into their stories immediately. Therefore, until I hear something more convincing I would have to reason that they acquired this knowledge from Westerners that visited them in the past decades. Does this make my guess true?? No. But it sure as hell has a lot more confidence in it than saying star people told them, IMO.
The problem with mythology is that we often have little context. This may seem counter intuitive but if a culture says they came from the stars doesn't mean it actually did. Or maybe it does, .... we ALL came from the stars originally!! But what I mean is this: Ancient people were linked to the stars because that was their nightime world. Half of their existence involved the night sky. For some people now, a total percentage of zero sums up their connection to the nightime sky. The ancients were different. It seems logical to me that they would see the nightsky as something greater than themselves, ... perhaps even their former home. I may be stretching here a bit because I don't really know, but the mysterious star-clad night would be a huge motivator for stories and maybe originators of their mythology.
I'm quite interested in learning about ancient cultures but we can only learn so much before taking guesses. It just seems that this show takes the guessing into more "want-to-believe" realms. I think some very interesting topics were brought up in this show but it's disappointing that more alternatives weren't further discussed. And I'm talking about the alternatives that don't involve the Annunaki or "I wanna be like a Grey".
The disconnect goes like this: This is weird, how the hell??, .... it must have been alien influences!
We can't use our ignorance to justify reaching to the stars to make the story complete. Elongated heads are just that, elongated. Why?? I don't know, I didn't live thousands of years ago, .... and neither did Bill Birnes or that knucklehead Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. Oh, ... they have something to sell?? They have a reason to believe?? It just is apparent that this conclusion is unfounded.
I was interested in the Dogon part. They do seem to have knowledge that they shouldn't have, ... unless someone told them. But who?? Well I bet you can guess who if you ask Bill Birnes or Greer. But is that the most reasonable conclusion?? These people's stories are based on oral traditions, not written. If I had seen something written that spelled out the Sirius binary system, then that would certainly be more convincing. Oral traditions are much more susceptible to pick up modern changes and coordinate them into their stories immediately. Therefore, until I hear something more convincing I would have to reason that they acquired this knowledge from Westerners that visited them in the past decades. Does this make my guess true?? No. But it sure as hell has a lot more confidence in it than saying star people told them, IMO.
The problem with mythology is that we often have little context. This may seem counter intuitive but if a culture says they came from the stars doesn't mean it actually did. Or maybe it does, .... we ALL came from the stars originally!! But what I mean is this: Ancient people were linked to the stars because that was their nightime world. Half of their existence involved the night sky. For some people now, a total percentage of zero sums up their connection to the nightime sky. The ancients were different. It seems logical to me that they would see the nightsky as something greater than themselves, ... perhaps even their former home. I may be stretching here a bit because I don't really know, but the mysterious star-clad night would be a huge motivator for stories and maybe originators of their mythology.
I'm quite interested in learning about ancient cultures but we can only learn so much before taking guesses. It just seems that this show takes the guessing into more "want-to-believe" realms. I think some very interesting topics were brought up in this show but it's disappointing that more alternatives weren't further discussed. And I'm talking about the alternatives that don't involve the Annunaki or "I wanna be like a Grey".
a proper salesman at work.
But, I think most of us are somewhere between (I know I am)the two extremes.