What We Think They Thought

I'm about to start work in my Humanities class. Of course, we already had our first week, just going over what "The Humanities" actually are, but now we're about to look at ancient art and architecture to learn about their beliefs and cultures. I wonder what we'll find and whether or not it'll come anywhere close to resembling the truth.

It's strange that people can look at the same evidence and yet come to wildly different conclusions. People's interpretations of other cultures and the universe can be shockingly different from each other, and yet, there is only one objective reality. There either is a God, or there isn't one. There is either one God or some other number of Gods. Either we are God's children, or we aren't. There are objective answers to those questions, so it's almost strange that there are so many different answers and interpretations to those questions.

Thing is, everyone who really cares will search for the truth, but that doesn't mean they're all going to find it, and they're almost certainly not going to find all of it. People could only pick up bits and pieces of inspiration as they went, at least until the best pieces of inspiration were compiled with other stories into the scriptures. Now we have more truth than ever, and our interpretations are probably pretty close to the truth, but earlier on, After the children of Adam forgot what Adam had taught them, humanity was pretty blind.

It'll be interesting to see what the ancient people thought of God (or "the Gods"), or at least what modern archaeologists think they thought. I hope this class will be as interesting as it seems. At least, I hope it'll be interesting enough to be worth the workload. This class has potential. I'm looking forward to learning more about what people think people thought about God.