Questions from a friend is what led to my husband writing out the synopsis for this fun new potential explanation of the what's and the where's of earth. If you haven't seen it, I explain it a bit in yesterday's post.
After rereading his thoughts prefacing his sudden inspiration, I thought they were also worth including in the exploration... exploration into whether I am going to turn this into a full blown Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel, or perhaps a short story series ;)
Between tomorrow's post, which will feature the synopsis I mentioned, and this one, you are getting a very rare glimpse into the mind of my mentor, my best friend, my lover. He is a man who can blend into any situation, can talk as easily with a brilliant mathematician as he can a good old boy. He is a jack of all trades and an expert at anything he puts his mind to. But only a rare few know the true inner workings of that beautiful brain of his.
And so it begins with a response to a man he trusts...who just so happens to be my brilliant, creative, talented and philosophical friend @therealpaul :
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The problem I have, just like you, is that we can only speculate. The reason I say that is that I am led to believe that I have never truly held a book in my hands that was an actual journalistic account of someone from the past talking about their present that was not edited or tainted in some way. Further, even if I was to come into possession of such a book, I would be ever mindful that the journalist would be describing his present through the cultural biases of his time and place and the subtle mind control of the language he was using to make his account. Then, there would be the question of who translated the work, and to what agenda, as well as the nagging feeling I often get from translated works on what was lost in the process.
So, we have made a distinction from journalist- those who write about exactly what they see- and historians- those who frame what they see in a way that fits the story, or narrative, that they are telling.
Now, because I have never been in the possession of a journal from a journalist from the past, and I am led to believe that all historians are full of shit by the nature of their work, that leads us to anthropologists.
Anthropologist are on the same footing as us- they must speculate on what happened in the past that shapes our present. Now, by my nature, I would not trust any anthropologist that is held in high academic esteem with his fellow Jesuit trained peers. I look for anthropologists that are outside the favor of their counterparts. One such anthropologist is Robert Sepehr. In the spirit of the hunt for actual information, this man is worth listening to:
Drug Use in the ancient world
I realize that I haven't really answered any of your questions. The truth is, I don't know. I am aware that many calendars have been created, the most current one used being the Gregorian calendar (the calendar of confusion). I am aware that the way we measure time has been altered from the way our ancestors (and the military) measured time. I am aware that the maps we now have access to are far different from the maps used before (and almost certainly different from the maps used now by those in the club). I am also aware the language taught to the masses, dog latin, is not the English as used by the so called enlightened.
The only conclusion that I have come to is that we do not, and almost certainly will not know where we come from, just as we do not know where we are going till we get there. So, I categorize these questions (mine as well as yours) as- the unknowable and unanswerable questions.
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Now, saying all that- is it ever fun to ponder and speculate!
And that is how one of the greatest science fiction story ideas I've ever heard came to be written down.
Synopsis coming tomorrow, don't miss out!