Musings. Personal journal.
Sometimes I wonder at how strange homins can be. We make stories up, we write stories down, we swear up and down that we fully believe in those stories. And then we go kill each other based on the same stories.
I guess the Kami and Karavan stories are the best known ones that cause homins to spill each others' sap. Both of them promise outlandish rewards, if only the followers stay true to their teachings... but those teachings cause strife and conflict.
The funny part about homins is the way they wage these wars. Sometimes, sufficiently large groups of religious followers will gather enough steam to attack a group of the opposite side. They regularly fight, sometimes with outposts as a pretext, sometimes over resources.
But the hate and rage cannot go on forever, do they? So these fine homins go through cycles of war, then uneasy peace, then mutual ignoring, then small-scale skirmishes ... and so on and so on.
A sufficiently skilled scholar may even attempt to determine at which point in the cycle his people currently is. A sufficiently skilled scholar might try to figure the triggers that move the followers' attitude from one stage to the next in the cycle.
And dreamers like me, say that maybe we could find the right combination of words and speeches, to keep the tribalistic religious followers in their current "uneasy peace" forever. Just dreams, it seems ...
Sometimes I wonder at how strange homins can be. We make stories up, we write stories down, we swear up and down that we fully believe in those stories. And then we go kill each other based on the same stories.
I guess the Kami and Karavan stories are the best known ones that cause homins to spill each others' sap. Both of them promise outlandish rewards, if only the followers stay true to their teachings... but those teachings cause strife and conflict.
The funny part about homins is the way they wage these wars. Sometimes, sufficiently large groups of religious followers will gather enough steam to attack a group of the opposite side. They regularly fight, sometimes with outposts as a pretext, sometimes over resources.
But the hate and rage cannot go on forever, do they? So these fine homins go through cycles of war, then uneasy peace, then mutual ignoring, then small-scale skirmishes ... and so on and so on.
A sufficiently skilled scholar may even attempt to determine at which point in the cycle his people currently is. A sufficiently skilled scholar might try to figure the triggers that move the followers' attitude from one stage to the next in the cycle.
And dreamers like me, say that maybe we could find the right combination of words and speeches, to keep the tribalistic religious followers in their current "uneasy peace" forever. Just dreams, it seems ...
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Xyan Palteus, unofficial scribe