I mean sure, these things might have been okay at moderate speed, tooling around the local bazaar marketplace of downtown Baghdad around 500 BCE. But they require some pretty special modifications to go up to the Elon Musk 'Constellation satellite' train - or they would do if you intended to get up there on your own personal flying carpet made in Isfahan today.
A sensible person would not believe in ET alien UFO's either - except these have been filmed by the US Navy. The absolute very latest military aircraft the US has is this new Boeing 'Next-Gen' so-called F-X. I think I mentioned it here, oh god, many years ago now, and it is extremely extremely fast - but it is in zero ways whatsoever similar in 'flight characteristics' to the Navy's 'Tic-Tac' UFO.
Back to flying carpets...
Nobody has photographed them. Not any real ones. And that is because there were also no cameras back in 500 BCE and earlier. 'Camera' is, as you know, an Arabic word.
Okay, forget flying carpets - let's go to the game of Chess, or, the true earliest version: Chaturanga. Nobody really knows what the rules of Chaturanga were, and it varies from standard modern Chess in that the two 'King' pieces do not face each other across the board at set-up. And, a stalemate is counted as a win for both parties.
Chess is haram in Islam.
So is the magic that produces flying carpets.
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| Which is more important - this above, or the particles in physics? |
The similarity though, in flying carpets and ET UFO's is that, flying carpets in any case were always held to be very rare things. It would have been difficult to photograph them even if there ever were such things because well, where would you find one, why would the great wizard that had one, show it to you?
Have you ever found yourself in the position of thinking, god if only I had have been prepared for 'such-and-such' - perhaps it were a chance, a fortuitous meeting with someone... ...but then, they were gone.
'Jannat' the heaven of Islam, literally has the meaning of that which disappears. And from that root comes the favorite word of Islamic Ustaz all over the internet these days - Djinn, which means that which vanishes and is usually invisible.
In Christianity, there is one other character named as 'Messiah' apart from any Jewish person, and also, another thing that eludes the tomato soup preachers everywhere, is that there are two 'heavenly realities' spoken of both by Jesus Christ as well as just generally all across the whole Bible.
Do we need a 'new story?' A new narrative for Mankind? Something that 'explains' us, our civilization, and its meander through history.
We don't even know our 'old story' yet!
You surely, would like a quick spin on your magic flying carpet first though, right? Before you chucked the whole thing in and hopped onto a 'new story?'
From the old Persian mythology, come the ideas of 'Peri' (fairies, astral beings with wings), and also 'Paradise;' the garden of Heaven. But the Garden of Heaven is different from the Kingdom of Heaven...
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| The Firebird - Stravinsky, is patterned on the Peri imagery. |
Thinkers have always been confronted with two great existential philosophical problems - one, what is going on, and two, why.
One of the great keys to the game of Chess, is that play involves no hidden information.
Same with life - what I know, is known to you, and what you know, is known to me.
And I ought not to be able to beat you in any great contest if our intellectual strengths are roughly equal, you would suppose, and let us - you and I at least - abandon the typical human shortcoming of personal arrogance; for I don't believe I am better than you -, not better, not smarter, not anything substantively different to you.
But I tell you this as a certainty - look around yourself and see if you disagree - most people are not players, as in, not real intentional movers of anything. And I tell you more still, those who have the wide reputation of being something important and special in the way of a master of the game, actively playing, moving pieces around the Chess board - the George Soros's, the Bill Gates, even Rupert Murdoch and Macron, Xi Jinping, all of those - they are one or other of 'castle,' 'knight,' or 'pawn.'
Find your real silk Persian rug, take your seat there...
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There is no win, no lose. And most of all, remember, there was no hidden information.
Take your position. Take up your mantle around your shoulders... ...and move your first piece now.
When you were young, you read, you studied, you learned much - and you saw no hidden hand, received no assistance, neither from your mysterious and rich uncle, nor from Djinni.
And as the mass-less neutrinos rocket into your mind from right across the whole of galactic space, even far far beyond that - hugely fast, mass-less, and if they hit each other in some as yet unknown way, two photons are given off... Carrying data at much much greater than the speed of light, in tune to who you are, the Djinni appears; sometimes here, sometimes there, always trying to elude the detection of the outside world, the material Chess-piece and board arrangement world.
Move your first piece now.
You are ready, right?
Because you were the one that said no, there were no advanced ET aliens, no proof, no evidence, no flying carpets, no incredible machines that flew right up into space and elsewhere at greater even than mere lightning speed.
You are ready, aren't you?
On the planet, at any one time, the great master Chess players are few and rare.
This world exists for them.
And you're ready to play you say.
Oh yeah, the other Messiah guy - well that was Cyrus the Great; God in the Bible says He appointed Cyrus to change the world. But you'll never much hear about this from the tomato soup people.
