The Flying Pharaohs
About James Smith
Much of what people have regarded as magic and “god” over the centuries have really been things they just didn’t understand so they attributed mystical significance to normal events.
A great example of this is a piece I read by Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions) who wrote that the ancient Egyptians could fly. Obviously, we know that they did not. They left us so many records in the form of artwork and writings that we would know if they had.
But, they had bamboo, papyrus, linen, plus the thermals and steady winds of the Nile valley. They could have built gliders capable of sailing hundreds of miles. Unfortunately, they were ignorant of the laws of aerodynamics even though they were as much in effect then as now. But they didn’t know, so they didn’t go.
It’s possible that there are laws of physics that we don’t know about today that, if we did, we would be capable of feats as astounding to us as flying would have been to the Pharaohs, who would have assumed that was supernatural, but was only the application of physical laws effective for anyone.
Even today, we see the same thing when people, observing anything they do not understand, assume it has a supernatural source. “God cured me of cancer” “The lord was with us. It’s a miracle only 12 people were killed. It could have been worse.” “I don’t understand how evolution could possibly work, so it must have been god.”
Follow MadMike’sAmerica on Facebook and Twitter, and don’t forget to visit our HOME PAGE.
If you liked our story please share it at REDDIT.COM and PINTEREST as well as TUMBLR.
Joe Hagstrom
February 7, 2013 at 8:24 am
All this may be so but I still am positive that was the Virgin Mary’s image on my toast this morning.
God speaks in mysterious ways.
I was hungry and ate the toast anyway. I figure it was a form of Communion.
James Smith
February 7, 2013 at 12:37 pm
But did you have wine with the toast?
Personally, I’ll have to start checking my cinnamon toast more carefully. There might be an image of Jerry Lee Lewis on it?
Bill Formby
February 8, 2013 at 11:04 am
You would only know it “The Killer” if there was also a piano there though James.
James Smith
February 8, 2013 at 1:23 pm
I’d recognize “The Killer” anywhere. I practice one of his best, “You Win Again” every day. Do you think the toast could sing if I used a little extra cinnamon?