Gobekli Tepe is dated back 11,500 years so far and there’s a whole city nearby waiting to be dug up yet. This would have been built within a hundred years after the end of the last Ice Age and the rapid initial rise of the ocean, that flooded the then-coastal cities which are now assumed by most experts in this field to have existed. That they had symbology at Gobekli Tepe that represented events is now established. Whether they had a written language beyond that is yet to be determined but they did have precision engineering and logistics. It’s kind of hard to do that without the math that goes with it and a good means of accurate record keeping. In fact, you can’t build cities and advanced societies without them.
Islam is 14oo years old, Christianity is 2000 years old, Judaism, about 4000 years old, Hindu, perhaps over 5000 years old. All the Roman and Greek gods died with the expansion of Christianity. There are no known religions surviving from the time of Gobekli Tepe unless it would be an early form of Hindu, but we have no proof of that at all. My point is that there’s no doubt religions existed during the Ice Age and that they didn’t last. Nothing does. Religions come and go and so do Ice Ages. The ice will grow again, the ocean level will drop again, cities will be built on the newly exposed land. So as much as I detest Islam, I don’t need to worry, it won’t last either.
I’ve always been against war and a lover of nature. But not all nature. Mosquitos and ticks could vanish and I don’t think any harm would come to the world if they did, and if it did, we can live with it. War. Humanity needs a way to keep our numbers down to a level that doesn’t threaten us with starvation in times of drought, so we periodically make war with each other and glorify the dead for their sacrifice, but now times have changed.
We’ve multiplied so rapidly that we had to develop Earth’s fresh water supply and ability to feed ourselves, even as we continue to develop bigger and badder war capabilities. The great increase in our technology has been made possible by the huge profits generated from the combination of a capitalist world and a massive population, allowing a few individuals to amass vast fortunes and spend them in the advancement of science and technology, along with anything else they could ever want, of course. But this is why AI has taken off along with all other technologies. It would never have happened without overpopulation, which was made possible by advancing technology. They created each other.
It may be possible that a war could bring planetary domination within the reach of one nation under the right conditions, which the beginning of a new ice age could possibly produce. What wars we have now are to quash the upstarts like the Iranian zealots, or in the case of Russia and Ukraine, simply to develop and test technologies and possibly for those up on the Globalist Mt. Olympus to play Greek God. After all, why should the US care about Russia’s oil refineries otherwise? The high price of diesel is the result of the closure of the two Straits in the fight with Iran but Trump is passing the buck by blaming it on Zelensky. Hypocrisy abounds when elections draw near.
This time we aren’t building temples to gods out of hewn stone. This time we’re going to be building cities on La Grange points, on the Moon, on Mars and Ceres and we’re in a hurry. The next ice age is due. There’s changes going on with the glaciers and ocean currents. Another ice age won’t end humanity any more than the last one did, but the disruptions in human commerce will be great and so will the politics. Possibly it’s foreseen that a nuclear war might finally erupt if another ice age began. It’s so odd that Elon suddenly dropped his plans to build a colony on Mars for the more immediate one of a colony on the Moon. Isn’t it? It sure seems odd to me.