Skeptical but hopeful
A 2,000-year-old date palm seed was found at Masada in Israel, the site of a mass-suicide pact, and germinated last year. The young date was a message in a bottle, a millenial, era-straddling time capsule. It grew, with white leaves at first, running to gray and weakly-veined. Months later and closer to the sun, shoots grew green and healthy.
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The first thing I learned about the scientific approach is that a theory cannot be indisputably proven, only disproven. The things we are most sure of in the world are only our best guess. The scientist keeps an open mind.
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Visoko, a town 20 km from Sarajevo, may hold pyramids greater than Egypt's. This is a matter of much debate. Some believe it’s a historic development, while others think it’s a hoax and a crime. So, for either reason, many are keeping their eyes on the 5 pyramid-shaped mountains outside the city. This is not strictly why I am going.
There is something happening in Visoko, this much we know. There is an energy there, fresh hopeful energy maybe for the first time in the ten years since the war ended. 5 buried pyramids to counterbalance 600,000 undetonated landmines, monuments of the past to weigh against its burden. There is possibility.
For three months, I will be living in Visoko, volunteering on the Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun project, digging the mountain and working in the PR office. I’ll be living with the people there who probably feel much like I do, skeptical but hopeful. I see it as the scientific equivalent of the search for origins, for God.
Sorry if this is all very dramatic.
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The first thing I learned about the scientific approach is that a theory cannot be indisputably proven, only disproven. The things we are most sure of in the world are only our best guess. The scientist keeps an open mind.
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Visoko, a town 20 km from Sarajevo, may hold pyramids greater than Egypt's. This is a matter of much debate. Some believe it’s a historic development, while others think it’s a hoax and a crime. So, for either reason, many are keeping their eyes on the 5 pyramid-shaped mountains outside the city. This is not strictly why I am going.
There is something happening in Visoko, this much we know. There is an energy there, fresh hopeful energy maybe for the first time in the ten years since the war ended. 5 buried pyramids to counterbalance 600,000 undetonated landmines, monuments of the past to weigh against its burden. There is possibility.
For three months, I will be living in Visoko, volunteering on the Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun project, digging the mountain and working in the PR office. I’ll be living with the people there who probably feel much like I do, skeptical but hopeful. I see it as the scientific equivalent of the search for origins, for God.
Sorry if this is all very dramatic.
posted by Ed Weinberg at 6:28 AM
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