wellwisher
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The invention of writing had a profound impact on humans, culture and civilization. The Bible and all Holy Books are based on the written word. Written word is given more weight than word of mouth or spoken language. It is still the standard by which spoken language is compared. Written language had to start somewhere, from nothing, with the creative process, not entirely from the ego and conscious mind. Science can show this invention appeared in the same time scale as Genesis. This is not coincidence.
What written language did, in the positive sense, in terms of the human psyche, was make our memories more enduring, via a primitive form of an external hard drive. There is still peer pressure to be perfect to the written word. School requires we be perfect to the written word of textbooks. Religion requires we be true to the written work of holy books. While science require we be true to the written words of science publications. If you depart, people can get weird and add peer pressure. Written has this extra prestige, since it offers a way to have fixed knowledge, that does not change, unless we change it and rewrite it. When knowledge of the universe around us was written, the gold standard appears; Genesis was first.
This was not the case before the word was written. Spoken word was not as enduring with respect to memory. We can relate accounts by word of mouth. The problem is this can be embellished, forgotten and lied about, with memory of what we said, also fading with time. Writing adds an external source that allows us to study and renew past memory and get beyond the con. This had an impact on the natural human, who could no longer just flow with life and instinct. Man became civilized. As the universe was written about, it appeared to come into being; start to notice things for the first time.
The one form of written language mentioned in the Bible, that was not endorsed by God or Nature, was knowledge of good and evil. Unlike writing practical and science type knowledge, that can be useful as a platform for dealing with reality; morally neutral, written knowledge of good and evil, with the same gold standard prestige, led to repressions.
For example, in the USA, we have two major political parties each with their own doctrines of right and wrong. How can both systems of knowledge of good and evil be right and also mutually exclusive? Knowledge of good and evil was subjective, which caused division both internally as well as externally. Relative morality means everyone has their own knowledge base of good and evil; fully subjective.
Adam and Eve were warned not to publish knowledge of good and evil, since this was a subjective illusion.; fiction and not non fiction, like the science and commerce data. But once published, as it was written, so it had to be enforced, causing repressive type problems. If knowledge of good and evil had been left open to discussion, it would have been watered down with time and evolved with a less repressive affect. But once written, into law, it could outlast its usefulness. Death would appear from what was assumed to be a battle between cultural good and truths.
As an example of how this still occurs in modern times, President Biden signed into law, provisions that undermined world energy. Once written it cause world wide inflation, since energy is part of all production and distribution, world wide. This was justify by Liberal biased knowledge of good and evil. They saw no problem, since it was good in their book.
Before it was written into the US law of good and evil, it was open for debate, and hardship was not yet in the cards. Once written, the hardship began. Imagine the confusion when the first books of good and evil, started to cause chaos and war. How can such a good invention lead to so much harm? The repressions caused the dark side of human nature to evolve. Genesis was the first written account in science and due to the prestige of publication, defined the first world view of science. In the bible many thing are written before the fall with knowledge of good and evil causing the fall.
What written language did, in the positive sense, in terms of the human psyche, was make our memories more enduring, via a primitive form of an external hard drive. There is still peer pressure to be perfect to the written word. School requires we be perfect to the written word of textbooks. Religion requires we be true to the written work of holy books. While science require we be true to the written words of science publications. If you depart, people can get weird and add peer pressure. Written has this extra prestige, since it offers a way to have fixed knowledge, that does not change, unless we change it and rewrite it. When knowledge of the universe around us was written, the gold standard appears; Genesis was first.
This was not the case before the word was written. Spoken word was not as enduring with respect to memory. We can relate accounts by word of mouth. The problem is this can be embellished, forgotten and lied about, with memory of what we said, also fading with time. Writing adds an external source that allows us to study and renew past memory and get beyond the con. This had an impact on the natural human, who could no longer just flow with life and instinct. Man became civilized. As the universe was written about, it appeared to come into being; start to notice things for the first time.
The one form of written language mentioned in the Bible, that was not endorsed by God or Nature, was knowledge of good and evil. Unlike writing practical and science type knowledge, that can be useful as a platform for dealing with reality; morally neutral, written knowledge of good and evil, with the same gold standard prestige, led to repressions.
For example, in the USA, we have two major political parties each with their own doctrines of right and wrong. How can both systems of knowledge of good and evil be right and also mutually exclusive? Knowledge of good and evil was subjective, which caused division both internally as well as externally. Relative morality means everyone has their own knowledge base of good and evil; fully subjective.
Adam and Eve were warned not to publish knowledge of good and evil, since this was a subjective illusion.; fiction and not non fiction, like the science and commerce data. But once published, as it was written, so it had to be enforced, causing repressive type problems. If knowledge of good and evil had been left open to discussion, it would have been watered down with time and evolved with a less repressive affect. But once written, into law, it could outlast its usefulness. Death would appear from what was assumed to be a battle between cultural good and truths.
As an example of how this still occurs in modern times, President Biden signed into law, provisions that undermined world energy. Once written it cause world wide inflation, since energy is part of all production and distribution, world wide. This was justify by Liberal biased knowledge of good and evil. They saw no problem, since it was good in their book.
Before it was written into the US law of good and evil, it was open for debate, and hardship was not yet in the cards. Once written, the hardship began. Imagine the confusion when the first books of good and evil, started to cause chaos and war. How can such a good invention lead to so much harm? The repressions caused the dark side of human nature to evolve. Genesis was the first written account in science and due to the prestige of publication, defined the first world view of science. In the bible many thing are written before the fall with knowledge of good and evil causing the fall.