How very fucking annoying
Some people are so lacking in a sense of logic; I've been watching a documentary (with very awful reconstructions, but that's by the by) in which there are several people who, in my mind are rather superb gimps.
This documentary is about crystal skulls, cashing in on a recent film. There are few example of these, some in famous museums and one in private ownership. Now, there is a description of a lot of science in this, and leaving aside the thorny epistemological problems regarding deriving truths from an empirical methods, the upshot is that the skulls are deemed to be modern (20th century) manufactures rather than ancient ones.
Right, so the people who put credence to a theory that these skulls are of ancient origin, suddenly it's all "well, they must have been pretty damn clever" or "some aliens must have given them the technology" or other, suddenly new ideas to fit a pre-conceived view. Despite the fact of a startling lack of evidence for other manufactures of similar technological sophistication. Seems highly unlikely that only a very limited number of artefacts have ever been found, all of exactly the same nature. This with at least 50 years of substantial excavation at many appropriate sites.......I dunno; seems very shaky to me, but it irks me more than a little. Not least because all the responses given by the 'ancient manufacture' theorists are cannot be framed in the form of a testable hypothesis.
Anyhoo, with that off my chest......what is in fact even more annoying is that I've (finally) made myself some bread. Doesn't sound annoying, huh? Well, having accidently added water to double the intended amount of flour, I've had to make a double batch of dough, and thus have not only a nice tray of loaves (and I can vouch, I've eaten one!) but also a tin loaf. And it is only just now I realise that I don't actually own a breadknife. Pillock, c'est moi.
This documentary is about crystal skulls, cashing in on a recent film. There are few example of these, some in famous museums and one in private ownership. Now, there is a description of a lot of science in this, and leaving aside the thorny epistemological problems regarding deriving truths from an empirical methods, the upshot is that the skulls are deemed to be modern (20th century) manufactures rather than ancient ones.
Right, so the people who put credence to a theory that these skulls are of ancient origin, suddenly it's all "well, they must have been pretty damn clever" or "some aliens must have given them the technology" or other, suddenly new ideas to fit a pre-conceived view. Despite the fact of a startling lack of evidence for other manufactures of similar technological sophistication. Seems highly unlikely that only a very limited number of artefacts have ever been found, all of exactly the same nature. This with at least 50 years of substantial excavation at many appropriate sites.......I dunno; seems very shaky to me, but it irks me more than a little. Not least because all the responses given by the 'ancient manufacture' theorists are cannot be framed in the form of a testable hypothesis.
Anyhoo, with that off my chest......what is in fact even more annoying is that I've (finally) made myself some bread. Doesn't sound annoying, huh? Well, having accidently added water to double the intended amount of flour, I've had to make a double batch of dough, and thus have not only a nice tray of loaves (and I can vouch, I've eaten one!) but also a tin loaf. And it is only just now I realise that I don't actually own a breadknife. Pillock, c'est moi.
posted by J at 8:52 PM
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