Do we really regret the loss of that life style ? It has been enough generations now that people in the West, and certainly the US have forgotten how much time it took to just do day to day things, and how much of that drudge work was done by women. Is this shift something to mourn?
Paganism in Europe had no chance when Christianity spread the continent. In the same manner, Christianity had simply no chance against the rational certainties of science, as a prevailing explanation of the world we live in. And when I say "rational certainty" I mean just that. The scientific knowledge the modern world rests on is based on verifiable observations, not wishful thinking. Newtonian mechanics is not "false", it is a first approximation that breaks down when gravitational fields are intense, or speeds approach the speed of light, or when the quantum of action is significant in the very small. This is not like the dogma once held by the Church that the earth was the center of the universe, which is simply, patently, false.>>>
Now thats what I consider a great piece of writing . And I have not forgotton how long it took to how corn or milk cows. In younger days, one did not ask "why am I doing this", since elders were in charge an it seemed the 'natural' thing to do . And later in the Service, I did not ask " why am I doing this" because the answer was very simple - we could learn to learn to fight or else die.
This entire operation from the beginning of shipping equipment overseas to dropping of cement bombs from 30000 feet while traveling 600 mph above the clouds and have it land on a precisely located square yard of soil in a country 1/2 a world away is a demonstration involving nearly every element of science learned to date.
I will stop here as 4 bunker busters seem to have come down on Saddams head which would be a turning point for both the War and the head. Keep up the good work
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