I wouldn't regard myself as a religious person but neither do I have a gripe with most of those who are.
What I do find objectionable is the minority within those religions who think they have to drag everyone else to the fold.
That goes for Muslim extremists as well as those who knock on your door trying to recruit new members, religion in my opinion should be a personal thing for ones own self satisfaction whatever that might be.
Whether they're on deaths door and take some comfort in thinking they're going to a better place, whether it be a social circle for someone, or just what the family have always done, it should remain their choice and not something to be thrust upon others.
I don't need nor want someone telling me what I need to do to improve my standing in life, that applies to other matters as well as religion.
One of my mates, of his choosing not mine
always seems to speak as if he knows better than I do, such as, You'll have to watch such and such a film, you'll enjoy it. You need to meet my brothers, you'll get on with him, the real pisser offer is, You should have done it this way it would have been better.
Now what really gets my goat is that I will decide whether or not I enjoy a certain film, I will decide what I think of his brother and I have already decided how to do what I've just done, I don't need him to tell me.
The same goes for restaurants and waiters, when and if they say "enjoy" after plonking the plate in front of me, FFS I will decide whether or not I've enjoyed the meal after I've tasted it, I don't need telling what I should think when I've just caught sight of it and not a morsel has passed my lips.
As for space aliens being yesterdays builders, sorry folks I don't hold with that one.
I will admit that some things remain beyond explanation at the moment, but it doesn't mean there isn't a logical reason lurking in the wings. So do we hold men from Mars responsible for all such unexplained happenings. The Nazca lines in the Puruvian desert are apparently visible from some surrounding hills so it might just be they liked looking at what they'd done as opposed to providing a landing area for flying saucers.
Lets face it, making a square block ain't that hard if you've got the time and skilled labour to do so, all sides the same length and each corner on the flat the same distance apart, two pieces of wood should do the trick.
Many old ways and methods will have been forgotten over the years gone by, engineering feats as well as such things as natural remedies, it still goes on today over relatively short time scales. How many people can work a traction engine? How many horse drawn plough men remain?
Some of the ancient cave paintings are a bit spooky though, drawings of what looks like a helicopter or plane etc, I however don't believe that helicopters existed in the stone age and there is an explanation, as said previously, but we don't know it.
Lets face it if someone looked at some of todays modern art in a few thousand years they might think it looks like a recent invention of their time.
Ramble over.
