The Attention Deficit Disorder Thread

Wassup mok?

 

nada much - just doing some Phunning before I go to bed.

how ya been, A.Tab? Doesn't seem like people do much chatting here anymore. :|

 

I'm not so sure about that. Most indigenous Americans were animists, they worshipped Nature and the sanctity that it held. The Incas and Mayans held to blood worship, but they didn't go looking for victims outside their own groups. They sacrificed themselves because they were all a holy people. Europeans looked at outsiders as inferior in every way. That wasn't the case with Native Americans. Different, yes. As savages? No.

 

That is so true..
I miss the love exchanged in all its manifestations between Jack and yay in this thread..

Ofcourse people like furball and scribe also post less here now..

I was always an infrequent poster but regular lurker in ADD..

 

Yo yo Scribe.

Hope you've been well, brudda! What's the word on Cutler? Harbaugh is leaning towards Kapernick, fyi. :33:

 

I think Jay is still a non-start, we'll see. If he and Smith don't start it will be D vs D. Could be interesting, or could be boring.

 

I join conversations, I rarely start them. I don't know why yay doesn't post in here anymore.

 

it'll be interesting for sure - my bets on a total of 8 turnovers overall.

Going to cut this short... check ya crazies later!

 

I'll take that bet!


Take care Mokko.

 

Ancient Europeans also worshiped Nature.......everything you described came after that with development and conquest........Native Americans did not have that much social, scientific and warring development so they still stayed in the earlier stage of geographical self content.........not to mention that they were completely separated from other parts of the world by oceans that they did not know how to cross........they had small and sparse neighbours......with whom I'm sure they did fight for all the usual things......but in the general sense there was simply no opportunity for them to develop into a power hunger vast empire.....had there been.....I'm reasonably sure that they would have.

 

I miss it too.....but it seems nobody comes here and thus I have little to say.

 

Its partly because of that other place guys have started

 

I think you're overlooking monotheism and the arrogant cult of personality that developed as a result of it. Even the most powerful of ancient Americans never felt compelled to impose their ideology on their neighbors, even when it was well within their ability to do so.

 

As a rule, you only chat extensively with yay and grims. For the rest of us it's like pulling teeth most times to keep you engaged.

To a certain extent, true.

 

Monotheism is a evolution of polytheism........1 can simply say that Native Americans did not evolve to that point.....nor were the circumstances right for such an evolution as there was in Eastern Europe.

The ideology you are talking about developed because of such a 1 sided evolution.....the people that evolved quite naturally looked down on the people that did not.

 

You're making an assumption based on your Eurocentric view. To this day, even after everything that has transpired with Native Americans and their contact with Europeans, they still (in the main) reject your presumptions. Even Christian Indians have no truck with imperialism. They've adopted Christianity within the context of their own deeply held beliefs handed down through the ages. Face it Jack, not all cultures are out to conquer the world, even if given the where withall to do so.

You say it's natural, I say it's a deviation. There's more evidence to support my point of view than yours.