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iefan 🕊️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +10 
 Greek thinkers were some of the most fascinating minds.

Their philosophy and mythology still shape our world as we know it, and they were far ahead of their time.
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Seodan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It's more like we - current day civilization - are far behind our human potential for several reasons. Operating on corrupted money being one symptom of it. 

The root causes lay in a complete misunderstanding of spirituality and
that our actions are almost entirely based on the materialistic workings of the mind.

Alhough Greek thinkers championed the use of the mind in sciences and in the understanding of the material world around us, their lives were embedded in a deep understanding of mythology and ancient wisdom (e.g. Pythagoras, Plato).
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amadee | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 "After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear."
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien?