What's on your mind?

[Kain Nobel]

Ancient History rhymes with Ancient Mystery.

For that I must ask... WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON?

My modern mindset, I read about Norse/Roman/Greek/etc mythology, I wonder.

What was everybody's relationship with these gods? Did people seriously believe in all of it? Did they actually walk amongst everybody and rule nations? Was it treated and understood as just fiction and entertainment, just as we understand Batman and Spiderman and Super Man to be fictional characters? Did they really, truly believe in these gods like Christians believe in Jesus, or Muslims believe in Mohammad/Allah? I'm not beating up on anybody who believed, or believes, in this stuff. I'm not saying I believe or I don't, it's just a curiosity. Really, these ancient gods are still relevant today, just look at the Avengers series or the Nike corporation. Or the periodic table of elements. Astronomy. The days of the week. Geez. It's everywhere.

All rhetorical questions, of course, unless somebody has some insight into this stuff.

Everything seems like it's all connected, one way or another. Religion (all religions), philosophy, history, science. Church and state, which pretend to be separate, but are secretly married to one another.

Jesus wasn't left in the past. Odin wasn't left in the past. Mohammed wasn't left in the past. Buddah wasn't left in the past. Nobody forgot about Moses. Loki and Thor are still active in the modern mind. If religion is anti-science, well science too is obsessed with religion and constantly names planets, elements and other things after ancient gods - oh, but they don't believe in anything that can't be reproduced by the scientific method, right? Reality is their religion. What is reality, anyways?

Also, when reading about history, there is always something that is a "gray area" or just plain unaccounted for. Was it buried, censored, lost, forgotten? Hidden? DESTROYED? Yeah, people like to destroy. Gaps in the timeline. Rumors. Fabrications. A swift debunking that does nothing to really prove or disprove a single thing. Consensus conclusion by experts, and always somebody to refute.

I try not to even get caught up in it because I know that I truly and honestly don't know a damn thing about anything other than what's been presented, plus what I've experienced which is nothing supernatural nor mindblowing. And, of course, what I've read. Looking into anything is an exercise in mental gymnastics. It's all fascinating though, and sometimes I do have to take a critical dive into the information due to nothing more than a curiosity that keeps me awake.

Some people believe mental illness is demonic possession, while others believe demonic possession is nothing more than mental illness. Maybe it's a bit of both? Very strange.

Then I go play some Final Fantasy 7 and immediately think Jenova == Xenu from scientology beliefs. Let's hope they're not genetically modifying soldiers with Xenu cells :3