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posted by
SincerityAnna
on January 12, 2005 at 8:39 AM
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SincerityAnna -- I'm sure they knew that part
it is the why that is missing in the fragmented records of ancient history.
posted by
gomedome
on January 12, 2005 at 8:33 AM
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Or without sex...
posted by
SincerityAnna
on January 12, 2005 at 8:28 AM
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Come on now...
A baby cannot be made without a woman!!!
posted by
SincerityAnna
on January 12, 2005 at 8:27 AM
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PoeticHoneyDew -- and you saying this is based on what?
you will find it as a reccuring theme throughout most ancient documents that the woman providing the egg is never mentioned while the male seed is mentioned constantly. Admittedly the conclusion I use is not entirely my own as it is a fairly common extrapulated assumption amongst historians. There is no doubt that earlier man knew how to make babies or we would not be here, to suggest however that they had any knowledge of human anatomy beyond what they profess or depict is just a guess at best.
posted by
gomedome
on January 12, 2005 at 8:25 AM
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Thanx Uniter
and I am the first to admit that the world of ancient mythology and deriving historical facts from it is vague at best. Subject to the perspective of the interpretor and inherently incomplete in it's make up.
posted by
gomedome
on January 12, 2005 at 8:17 AM
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I was really enjoying this...and then ou had to go and say something stupid
I have no beef over the over-all scheme of the article...
It's a tiny little detail...
Now, ancient civilizations were in no way stupid. They could only analyze their surrounding with the limited tools available to them. And without these tools, they could predict the weather to some degree, they could observe the seasons and the weather changes. They knew that plants needed water to grow, animals needed food... and here is what you seem not to realize.... THEY KNEW HOW BABIES WERE MADE!!!
If they had not known, then the "virgin mary" would not be so important. The idea that she had conceived without ever having sex made her special.
Just as peasant farmers knew that animals didn't talk....
Humans like to reach beyond what they know and into the unknown just as much as they are willing to run from it. They wanted to believe that something so miraculous as imacculate conception could occur. Just as some cultures choose to believe that half-man half-beasts roamed the earth.
People are just as stupid as they used to be. They just seem to think they know more about the way of things these days is all.
posted by
PoeticHoneyDew
on January 12, 2005 at 8:08 AM
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Excellent points!
Good job. Always nice to read something that has been researched.
posted by
Uniter
on January 12, 2005 at 7:58 AM
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