amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
So when you think about it, probably all of the ancient peoples had their god or gods imbued into whatever technology they had, which was cutting edge at the time. Noah's ark, the pyramids, the Staffordshire hoard, all of this was associated with divine forces. We do nothing like that at all in proper proportion within our age, with modern objects. To truly have the religiosity of the ancients we adore, we would have to imbue our gods into our computers, our skyscrapers, and our cars, and treat them as holy and have special rules for how we use them, but we simply don't. We are dead to the kind of thinking those folks before us would have had about any of these things. Plastic we say is garbage, where most of the ancients were so in awe of mere iron, that it was infested with spirits wherever you go on the map. We whip our jon boat into winter storage, and call it a mere junky boat that we're ready to toss, meanwhile the vikings probably thought their boats had souls. Who includes an iphone and a laptop in their casket to take to the afterlife? We don't have the same attitude about our stuff
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