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To: Openurmind

And still the modern view is that water was a barrier, not a superhighway.


13 posted on 10/31/2019 12:11:37 PM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: null and void

Yep, this ignorance is one of my pet peeves. Humans were not hydrophobic until Hammurabi’s codes were written which instilled the universal superstitious fear of water. To this day universal superstition still prevails in the primal subconscious causing that common consensus of the hydrophobia. Just like the common hatred of serpents from the garden of eden, and the tendency to automatically say “Bless you” when someone sneezes and ejects evil spirits. A lot of archaeology and anthropology is still based on deep set subconscious religious superstition.

“I fear water so I KNOW early man definitely feared water, because I am much more intelligent than they were”. Well, maybe not... Maybe your own deep set superstitions are misplaced when using as a prerequisite.


14 posted on 10/31/2019 12:39:43 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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