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@js290 I'm not sure I'd classify it as a narrative. The personification of that which we don't understand seems to be a fairly natural response to those things we can't explain.

Taking, for instance, ancient religions- you have concepts such as war, or avatars of storms and lightning. Gods of the ocean, or of fertility and crops.

We began to explain our world and our place in it through the observations we could make with the tools we had in that particular time. The questions of why we are, what we are, where we are, and how everything works are questions that humanity has been asking itself for as long as we've been able to do so.

It is in our nature to give human characteristics even to things we do understand. People ascribe human elements to their vehicles (cars, or boats in particular), or to their pets for instance.

You can also see elements of this personification of things in language and how we communicate. Some languages ascribe gender to objects, as an example.

As for how we'll be viewed in the eyes of history? I'm not sure, I don't really have an answer for how the world will be ten thousand years down the line. That is a really, really long time. I can only hope that historians ten thousand years from now remember me, personally, as handsome and a nice guy.

my cat also wears a bowtie

hay all just making a toot to get the ball rolling. Hope to meet many of you on here and talk tech and anything else. So hit me up and lets chat!!

just signed up. gotta fill out my profile, etc.

@commandelicious You mentioned needing more cats on your Home feed. This is my cat, Murphy, as a kitten. My wife picked out the bowtie. I'll have to find some more recent pics of him.

Equations for Standard A440 Concert Pitch, Twelve-Tone Equal Temperament, Chromatic scale! :D (ie, Western music scale XD)

f = 2^(p/12) * 440
p = log2(f/440) * 12

(Where f is frequency in Hz and p is pitch where A is 0, A# is 1, B is 2, Middle C is 3, the next A is 12, and so on, and it's negative for lower octaves (or rather, dodaves X3) )

:D

Culture is fun.
So there is this brit who moved to Germany 20ish years ago and produces videos about culture in Germany, differences random fun facts and all that.
Cool guy, Andrew Bossom, Rewboss. Love his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/rewboss

Sidewink to @freemo => If you find the time, I'd really like to read or hear about what your experiences as an american in the Netherlands are. If you haven't already, otherwise: GIMME LINK <3

If you want to make someone better, make yourself best first.

New post on Japanese society and cryptocurrencies! https://blog.xtrabytes.global/xtrabytes/xtrabytes-news/japan-crypto-beyond-the-hype-part-1/

Disclaimer: I am a socialist and I love writing. Writing nice stuff.
Anyway, to train I wrote the darkest horror I could think of.
They told us late.
http://commandelicious.de/index.php/blog/105-they-told-us-late

So true <3

China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17819071
#hackernews #tech

@freemo It's a really interesting thing, but I'm biased due to my personal connection.

Of particular interest is that at one point, before the Babylonian captivity, the religion that would later become Judaism was most likely monolatristic . That is to say that they worshiped one god over all the other gods- they still had a polythestic pantheon. The king was the head of the religion, and had the divine right thing going.

You can see this in some of the wording which even survives until today. References to foreign gods 'The gods of Egypt' or how the ten commandments is often translated 'No other gods before me'.

The Babylonians roll in, though, and take into captivity all the movers and shakers- the priests, the wealthy, the nobility- and the religion undergoes a major change in those years.

@freemo @Surasanji
My grandfather was son of a jewish mother and in the Wehrmacht. A year ago I got his picture diary and I decided to make it accessible to the internet. I left it mostly uncommented.

http://commandelicious.blogspot.com/2017/07/my-grandfathers-picture-wardiary.html
#history #ww2
I decided for a new thread and not derailing the discussion there. <3

#introduction
I'm Hans. I live in Missoula, Montana where every day looks like the opening shot of A River Runs Through It or a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie depending on how much smoke or snow is in the air. I have a master's in Biomedical Engineering but now work in the entertainment industry. My mind is still drawn to science, tech and engineering so I read and watch a lot of hard sci-fi as well as read science magazines and listen to science podcasts.