Evidence: We are not alone (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Sunday, January 04, 2015, 15:50 (3611 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Before you wave this off as fantasy, consider a few points:-First, imagine a scenario where our civilization was wiped out on a global scale tonight. You don't have to consider a single family survival scenario like Noah, but even if two million humans survived spread out across the globe, what knowledge would be lost? Sure, the immediate survivors would remember some things, but technology and capitalism have already supplanted the ability of the vast majority of humanity to create anything themselves without being able to buy something from the store first. -What are the chances that you would have an electrical engineer? A metalurgist? A chemist? A doctor? Someone knowledgeable enough or capable enough to breed yeast for wine, bread, or beer? A carpenter that could harvest trees and convert them to raw building materials? Without the most basic of the technologies that we have come to rely on, they would most certainly do the exact same thing that we witnessed in ancient civilizations such as the Aztecs, Mayans, Greeks, Romans, Indians, Egyptians, and others. They would gravitate to what used to be major cities, and then try and build on top of the ruins, if for no other reason that there was already readily available raw materials that did not require pre-requisite knowledge to gather. The temple of Baalbek (link above) is just one such example, but they exist all over the world, and it is a tradition we still keep today. Just look at the monument being placed over the 9/11 site. Whether commemorative, religious, or simply pragmatic, my theory fits the observations. It fits the OOP anomalies that we find all over the world. It fits the ancient records of pre-existing civilizations or "First Men". It fits the recorded accounts of a world wide meltdown of civilization, including the Indian and Jewish texts which describe civilization peaking and being so corrupt that it had to be destroyed.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.