December 27, 2006 04:52PM
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Joe Schiller wrote
>"You accept that at one time civilization didn't exist but you have no suggestion
> explaining how it came about other than a feeling that it was a natural evolution from
> whatever preexisted it in Egypt."
And
>" I am suggesting that deifying masculinity caused civilization and that, if we had
> continued to worship the earth, it wouldn't have happened."
Joe, following your first argument through all the way means there was “never a time civilization didn't exist. It therefore must have existed to "seed" the next one.”
Your next point really torpedoes the argument altogether. Plowing the fertile earth did not begat religion!
I believe civilization grew out the populations conversion to farming from hunter gathering as it allowed greater concentration of numbers and practically demanded organization.
The fact select members used this need for organization to set themselves up as a higher exalted caste is merely the oldest form of human nature expressing itself.
Globalizing some fantastic lost civilization as the required seeder of all later major civilizations begets the following unanswerable question;
WHO begat them?
Jammer
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