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**ViagraFeller** · 06-01-2010, 04:18 PM

from post #14

Certainly many of the type of example you mention are superstitions based on....ignorance.
But there is also a substantial body of such that reflected folk-beliefs of the time. that is the crux of my case,what was true at the time,and in those societies.
Those were times when in general people were more aware of the earth than we are now.
I don't want to posit some 'Noble Savage',but l do think that to throw out those beliefs without having lived that reality is a little presumptuous.

06-01-2010, 04:18 PM	#11
ViagraFeller Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 585 Senior Member	from post #14 Certainly many of the type of example you mention are superstitions based on....ignorance. But there is also a substantial body of such that reflected folk-beliefs of the time. that is the crux of my case,what was true at the time,and in those societies. Those were times when in general people were more aware of the earth than we are now. I don't want to posit some 'Noble Savage',but l do think that to throw out those beliefs without having lived that reality is a little presumptuous.
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