Just this episode or is it you never ever listened to Cremo?
I never heard him say India invented everything first, interesting if he has said that, well what was the context for him to have such a belief, do you know? I not posting here to argue, I understand your views on stuff, it often comes across in your writing, and I hand to you it is often well-written, but your beliefs are very narrow minded. Anything that can't be found in a text book or is agreed upon by the mainstream you tend to look down on. I think you are over-educated and over-educated people often don't see the truth that is in front of them. What has Mr Cremo ever done wrong, but show people who are willing to listen, that history has many pages, and that some of those pages are still being ignored by the very people you look up to!
Well wasn't that a a fun butt-kicking?!
'Over-educated' is a negative thing? That's called anti-intellectualism....plain old dumbing down. My beliefs aren't narrow-minded and rarely feature on the forums. If I express a view, it's usually after a lot of reading up or a few years of thinking about the subject. I'll ignore the other generalisations, because I enjoyed reading them. Yeah I think you're talking out your ass about me, but it's cool to vent sometimes...
For years, I believed in a lot of the stuff you do. Bought the books and bored the shit outta friends with tales of Atlantis and lost civilisations. One passage in a Charles Berlitz book stood out one day and I started to check up on the stuff. Started reading academic history, studied a little at college and university. Read more. Learned more and informed myself. It's all a house of cards built on foundations of petrified horsecrap.
A lot of guys see Cremo as a hero showing the cover-up of science. With his collection of news snippets and 'sacred texts' showing advanced technology, giants and spark-plugs have been around for millions of years on Earth; he proves science has hidden it from us. Why has his research ended in the 19th Century? Why hasn't he applied the same approach to modern life? Why does he ignore evolutionary theory and keep his fans in the dark?
Possibly because he's a fundamentalist Hare Krishna follower? That his beliefs take the Bagavhad Gita literally and that anatomically modern humans walked (and flew) the Earth millions of years ago? Like Creationists, these ideas cannot stand in their literal meaning. We know that Earth wasn't created 6000 years ago and we know that Homo Sapiens Sapiens wasn't around millions of years ago. We also know that there's no evidence to support either position. So he scatters a ton of old news snippets and hearsay around and adds leading questions and special pleading to make his idea of reality slightly more plausible.
Like the Creationists, the quickest way to make your ideas seem plausible is to undermine anything that *doesn't* support them. In this case, it's science and particularly archaeology. So he goes on the attack with innuendo and aspersions that the international science community is 'hiding the truth' and that Smithsonian historians are burning the evidence. By smearing normal guys, just doing their jobs, with a veneer of dishonesty and conspiracy, he seeks to bolster his belief system.
It's easy to share his views as a lot of people feel hostile to scientists and archaeologists. His targets are other people's targets too. The crazy thing is, he isn't ragging on science so you can have space aliens building the pyramids. He isn't clearing the way to show NASA has lied or that your Tuatha Dé Danann were space visitors. He wants to piss all over science and pervert education so is beliefs in Vishnu aren't challenged and he doesn't have to think about the cognitive dissonance.
