Originally posted by: return_to_hades
Clothing was created to protect from elements, not protect modesty. The concept that the body is shameful and must be covered is a human social construct. It is not necessary that aliens follow human social constructs. None of the other species on earth do. Not even our closest cousins the great apes.
Theoretically, faster than light travel is possible. Particle physics has theorized particles that display FTL. Space travel results in time dilation resulting from FTL and gravity. Arsal-Ak explained this well.
I don't think westerners "stole" from Puranas per se. Almost all regions of the world have their own myths that seem to defy known logic. Sci-fi and myth are two sides of the coin. Explain the impossible with Gods and Goddesses you get myth and fantasy. Explain the impossible with theoretical science you get Sci-fi.
Isn't it fascinating that every region of the world has the "great flood myth". Manu and Matsya in India. Noah and the Ark in Abrahamic religions. Epic of Gilgamesh in Mesopotamia. Chinese Gun-Yu myth. All native indigenous tribes around the world also have their own flood narrative,
God or spirits save mankind - religious myth
A spaceship comes and saves mankind - sci-fi
Dinosaurs drowned to keep everyone else afloat - humor
God made man and the world - religious myth
Aliens seeded life on earth - sci-fi
The flying spaghetti monster created everything - humor
The difference is religious myth tries to attribute everything we don't understand to God or higher powers. Science fiction tries to explain everything with a plausible theory. Humorists are more like what the f**k do we know, nothing to get all bothered over.
Good that RTH has pinched in, in this discussion,.. !
The whole thing is,... when we were in an ape-aadi manav stage ,.. and sitting on sand, wet soil it was ruining our body that wet sands stick to the butts,.. etc and that's how they started wearing leaves,... they were not much wearing on the top torso,... so that's how it started,. And later to protect from cold and hot weather they put on more clothes/tree-leaves,...
Later,.. the society formed,. And when we use common public things such as sitting on a bus/bench and then next someone else sits there,. So naturally,... that common object be free from one's body perspiration, fart and skin touch,. And that's how the necessity of clothes made a sense,... and somehow the modesty and sex-private parts factor also was woven into it somewhere at some time-frame of olden time before the Christ.
But the very obvious was,... when a aadi-maanav was sitting on wet sands and soils,.. it was disgusting to have soil stuck to yr buts and body, also when you sleep,... hence they started wearing leaves,.. ! Also male and women private parts are very delicate and they wanted them to keep it away from filled up with dirt/dust, mud,.. etc and that's how also they realized the needs of some cover and protection there,.. but Modesty was not the issue at that ape-age time-frame of the duration.
Talking about the dinosaur I conclude that, at that time the earth was newly formed and hence was having tons of oxygen and that's how those giant creature formed,. Due to lots of oxygen on the planet,... later due to some asteroid hit and Erath remained covered in a dust ball for centuries and that's how they all died,... as they could never hide underground and still getting food and water !
Human has evolved here,... and hence it's hard to agree that we all are aliens and came in some space ship from another planet when it's star was to go for super-nova or greenhouse effect on the planet and such,... it's all baloney !
The whole thing is all religions have their own fiction / fake stories,..and maan-ghadat stories,.. and as the time passed by,.. scientific inventions came,. They all replaced their book's lines and claimed that we said it first,.. and they all are liars,..
Whether someone says we were the first who said,..
earth rotates the sun
Earth is not endless or infinitive but a hugh round sphere,.
Moon does not have its own light,..
Science told it first and they all copied it, replacing the lines, as the generations evolved and claimed that we said it,..
Original Tulsidaas's Ramayana had very few nos of Chopaayis,. But later everyone added more and more masalas to it,.. and it was exaggerated by 1000 % !
Till today,.. B R Chopra added some filmi dialects to the Character's mouth and such,... !!Lol.
If you are interested in such discussions,...
We desis do discuss here,..
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