I think the 3600 is a year in modern terms. So big reigns is unplausible. The rapid successions give a picture of the instability of that period, in line with Noah's description of the era.
Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
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Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
#92The idea that a list of kings from 4000 years ago would encodé global climate events for over 240.000 years is completely ludicrous. Astrology has a better grounding on reality than this idea. And the fact that all lengths are multiple of 600, is even more telling knowing that they counted in base 60
Base SIXTY?
Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
#94Genuine question: what math did I need to take to understand any of this
Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
#95The idea that a list of kings from 4000 years ago would encodé global climate events for over 240.000 years is completely ludicrous. Astrology has a better grounding on reality than this idea. And the fact that all lengths are multiple of 600, is even more telling knowing that they counted in base 60
Base SIXTY?
Yes, like modern-day clocks.
Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The dark ages were anything but dark The period is only called dark age in English for what it’s worth, that should make it pretty obvious it’s not a universal understanding of that era
It deserves to be called that. After the fall of the Roman empire primitive religion came to rule Europe. The science the Greeks gave Europe were lost or stagnated, and literacy was almost exclusively the domain of the church. Europe regressed, while the Islamic world preserved the Greek science texts and China thrived (inventing gunpowder and money to start with). Everything is named by comparison, and we compare th…
> After the fall of the Roman empire primitive religion came to rule Europe.
I get that you want to bash Christianity, but... it's not like it was less progressive than worshipping force-of-nature gods with a propensity for rape and petty revenge.
Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
It deserves to be called that. After the fall of the Roman empire primitive religion came to rule Europe. The science the Greeks gave Europe were lost or stagnated, and literacy was almost exclusively the domain of the church. Europe regressed, while the Islamic world preserved the Greek science texts and China thrived (inventing gunpowder and money to start with). Everything is named by comparison, and we compare th…
> After the fall of the Roman empire primitive religion came to rule Europe. I get that you want to bash Christianity, but... it's not like it was less progressive than worshipping force-of-nature gods with a propensity for rape and petty revenge.
> I get that you want to bash Christianity
Not at all. The dark ages were dark. Pretending like they weren't because of your religious choices is just intellectually dishonest, regardless of your faith.
Were they dark because religion was in charge? Yes.
Atheists have perpetrated their fair share of horrors (and then some) as well. So have most/many other religions.
Using weak language to avoid having to consider the horrors of the past helps no-one except those who wish to repeat those horrors.
My objection is not to Christianity, it is to revisionists who want to pretend like Christianity didn't already have a go at being in charge or forget the monstrosity of what happened when it was.