I thought Carlson's whole point was that there were 16 events that destroyed all civilization smaller than the million-ton level. Are we saying now that these civilizations weren't destroyed? See, we could have a narrative where you keep starting from near-zero, we could have a narrative that some quadrants (where there is no cataclysm) we build on the previous one well and have an exalted culture, we could claim the immediate past is of the first category and could hope the immediate future is of the second category, but it still might be the first. There's no reason in this theory to choose between the ultimate worst fate and the ultimate best fate, the theory only specifies that it will be one extreme or the other. Do you see some way of deriving more from it than that?
There’s a pretty wide gulf between “extinction” and “civilization destroying” though right? A large enough solar flare would be “civilization destroying” with nowhere near the levels of death thought to have occurred with, e.g., the Toba super-catastrophe (which is believed to have reduced mankind to 10% of its previous levels), approximately 3 “Great Years” ago
I thought Carlson's whole point was that there were 16 events that destroyed all civilization smaller than the million-ton level. Are we saying now that these civilizations weren't destroyed?
His “whole point”, by my understanding, is the concept of the continuity of knowledge through the upheaval event, from the civilization of the past to the civilizations of the future. So while the civilizations of the past are “wiped out”, or perhaps more accurately, “rendered unrecognizable to a large extent” (i.e. the pockets of survivors are spread around the world and “disappear” into the native populations of the world, like the Vikings who made it to North America before 1,000 AD), their knowledge and genetics persist for later rediscovery - “When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.”
Do you see some way of deriving more from it than that?
Someone once said:
I propose that the Truth, the Way, and ultimately all Christianity is encapsulated in various isomorphic statements of rejection of nihilism and acceptance of a transcendent greatness harmonizing Self and Other.
I see this lesson enshrined in the stones and their message. This lesson won’t burn up at 451*F, nor will it rot with diluvien inundation. It is as long lasting as we can manage. And its entire purpose is to demonstrate that nothing here lasts forever. Worth pondering by my estimation.
Jesus prevents extinction, nobody else.
No one’s talking extinction, but harvest
I thought Carlson's whole point was that there were 16 events that destroyed all civilization smaller than the million-ton level. Are we saying now that these civilizations weren't destroyed? See, we could have a narrative where you keep starting from near-zero, we could have a narrative that some quadrants (where there is no cataclysm) we build on the previous one well and have an exalted culture, we could claim the immediate past is of the first category and could hope the immediate future is of the second category, but it still might be the first. There's no reason in this theory to choose between the ultimate worst fate and the ultimate best fate, the theory only specifies that it will be one extreme or the other. Do you see some way of deriving more from it than that?
There’s a pretty wide gulf between “extinction” and “civilization destroying” though right? A large enough solar flare would be “civilization destroying” with nowhere near the levels of death thought to have occurred with, e.g., the Toba super-catastrophe (which is believed to have reduced mankind to 10% of its previous levels), approximately 3 “Great Years” ago
His “whole point”, by my understanding, is the concept of the continuity of knowledge through the upheaval event, from the civilization of the past to the civilizations of the future. So while the civilizations of the past are “wiped out”, or perhaps more accurately, “rendered unrecognizable to a large extent” (i.e. the pockets of survivors are spread around the world and “disappear” into the native populations of the world, like the Vikings who made it to North America before 1,000 AD), their knowledge and genetics persist for later rediscovery - “When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.”
Someone once said:
I see this lesson enshrined in the stones and their message. This lesson won’t burn up at 451*F, nor will it rot with diluvien inundation. It is as long lasting as we can manage. And its entire purpose is to demonstrate that nothing here lasts forever. Worth pondering by my estimation.