Chapter Five Hundred and Fortieth Rhetoric About the Doomsday
"You should actually be very clear about this legend, right?"
"Oh, I know very well? It's not related to me."
A calm smile on his face paused, and then Jiang Chen asked Howard back.
But looking at the expression on his face, he didn't seem to be fake, and he knew that this guy was not the kind of person who could be fake. Howard also narrowed his eyes slightly and shook his head directly.
"No, it has nothing to do with you. But maybe it has something to do with your origin. Since you can't remember it, forget it..."
"Forget it, you can't just forget it. I hate others the most. Since you have already opened this, don't fool me without saying a word. You know, I always have a way to figure out what I want to know. Instead of using those means that I don't want to use, it's better to cooperate with it. Do you think so..."
"You guy."
Because he knew this guy's style of conduct and knew that Jiang Chen was definitely not just saying this, but that he could really do it. Howard's face suddenly twitched, and he could only make a compromise.
"Forget it, just pretend I'm afraid of you. Since you want to know, then I'll just say it."
"The Hebrews had a Dead Sea instrument, you know."
"Do you know that ancient Christian classic?"
Jiang Chen nodded. This thing was causing trouble when it was first unearthed. He was a mysterious person at least, so of course he would hear it.
But it is only limited to hearing. If you want to talk about interest, his interest in these papyrus is probably not as great as the science fiction novels that have just been published.
As an ancient existence that has been in the world for a long time, he knows the essence of human religions very well. He knows the classics worshipped in these religions even more clearly.
It is nothing more than flattery, in short, exaggeration. It is often used to highlight the greatness of their worship, and to intimidate their believers and demand that they remain pious to the object they worship.
Whether this piety is necessary and whether this end of the world will really come, as the mysterious pinnacle, he is equivalent to the existence of the true god, but he often just sneered at it.
In ancient times, when humans saw fires ignited in forests, floods, mountain torrents swept, and volcanic eruptions, they would think it was the end of the world, thinking that it was the gods who were punishing those disrespectful creatures. But today, it is not easy for those who understand the principles to fool those who are rational.
Because with the advancement of science, human beings have realized that this is just a phenomenon under the changes in the natural environment, and it is not a god that is releasing its anger and trying to bring a doomsday to mankind.
Besides, the end of the world? With the technology of human beings today, they can create the end of the world themselves. If there are gods and human beings, it is still unknown who will die. So who will believe in the fabrication in the ancient scriptures?
"Why, don't tell me that the legend you are talking about is the nonsense on papyrus. After all, you are a civilization that has developed to an alien who can go to space and conduct interstellar travel. You will not use such lies to fool people as real."
"The statement of religion is naturally unreliable, and the rise and fall of countless civilizations illustrate this point. It is ignorant and self-confidence. It hinders the progress of civilization with an old view until civilization itself loses its enterprising spirit and becomes an old part until it is swept into the dust of history."
"But this does not mean that religious records must be unreliable. Because some records are likely to be that people of a certain era have seen something, discovered something, realized something, and then made the most detailed records he could make with their limited vision at that time. It may seem bizarre and lacks realistic and theoretical basis, but who dares to say that what he saw and realized at that time would not be a real truth?"
If a charlatan says such things here, the generals can sneer at it and smile.
Because he has seen too many similar guys in his long life, he is simply a business of deceiving the world and making profits under the banner of a high-sounding person.
But Howard's identity, as an alien, was a bit groundless in his opinion, no matter how he looked, he also looked up to his face, and Jiang Chen asked this question curiously.
"You talk about the Dead Sea Documents, then I'm curious. Which paragraph are you talking about?"
"God let the end of the world come to destroy the evil on earth. Until the Messiah returns and reappears the kingdom of justice... I am not a theology lover, I just know this. It's probably just that..."
"Is this passage very strange? It seems that there are similar statements in many similar theological works."
Jiang Chen winked at him, but did not find anything strange in this passage.
To be honest, he has seen too many similar things. If he really looks at them from his perspective, he may have compiled the doomsday remarks in modern times are no less than a hundred times more sophisticated than these ancient remarks. In other words, with the blessing of ancient times, these doomsday remarks have become more mysterious. Otherwise, even if they are directly put to this day, even if they are published in newspapers, some people will think that this is the place.
"It's true. Whether it's Ragnarok in Norse mythology, the Great Flood in Greek and Babylonian mythology, and the Brahma awakening in Indian mythology, there are similar records of the end of the world. It seems that the end of the world is a consensus and it really exists. Is this a coincidence, or did they really experience something at the beginning? So that those ancient humans really sure that the end of the world will come?"
"No, what do you want to say to me? Do you want me to believe that the end of the world really exists and is coming soon? That's why those guys choose to take the risk and leave this world with you? This is ridiculous and ridiculous."
Jiang Chen laughed and said that he didn't take Howard's words to heart at all. Howard also understood his ideas. After all, from these perspectives, his statements were indeed unconvincing. But he did not give up, but continued calmly.
"I know this is ridiculous. If this doomsday sounds like nonsense from this point alone. But don't forget my identity. I came from the distant planet Orion, flying over hundreds of light years to come here, a remote civilization that has not yet been civilized. What's the reason for me to come here?"
"I remember asking this question, you have avoided talking about it before. Why did you suddenly plan to tell me the answer?"
Speaking of this, Jiang Chen's face suddenly showed an interesting look. He admitted that he was indeed curious.
A group of aliens from the background of advanced civilizations drove a spaceship to the earth and existed silently on this planet for hundreds of years. This really made him unable to understand the purpose of this group of people.
At first he thought that they might have come to invade the earth, but after communicating and observing, he realized that this possibility was really tiny.
As an alien, Howard may indeed have some specialties, but his advantages are limited compared to humans, and may even be inferior to some mysterious creatures. The only thing he can rely on is probably the technology they have, but he knows that these aliens have even lost their own spaceships.
According to Howard himself, they were attacked by accident when they were about to land in the atmosphere, so they had to escape urgently in an escape pod, allowing the spacecraft to land somewhere on earth on their own.
They themselves don't know where the spacecraft landed. So for hundreds of years they have been looking for news about their spacecraft.
And hundreds of years are a bit long. It's so long that the companions who came to Earth with Howard have died of old age, and only he is left.
Based on lifespan, Howard is probably in a situation where he has not had much time. It is unrealistic to expect an alien who is about to die of old age to invade and occupy the earth.
Besides, if he really wanted to do something, it would be enough for them to do something for hundreds of years. But if he had not done anything for hundreds of years, Jiang Chen naturally didn't believe that they would have such an intention.
Howard himself also stated this to him that for higher civilizations who have already been able to travel between the stars, colonizing and ruling a backward planet is completely meaningless.
A planet with its own ecology can easily have a fatal impact on alien races that have become accustomed to the original planetary ecology. The complex factors in the natural environment are an unavoidable threat. Not to mention that such behavior is likely to trigger war.
It is easy to destroy a lower civilization, but this kind of destruction has no value.
Unless they can use absolute force to make the lives of a planet bow down and dare not violate any violations. But the reason why life is life is because they have the nature of struggle. In order to survive and evolve, no life will be willing to become a slave to others.
So this is often not worth the effort. Compared to taking huge risks to target a planet with its own civilization and ecological system, why don’t they occupy an unmanned planet?
There are two standards for a higher civilization. One is efficient interstellar travel, and the other is planetary ecological transformation.
With the technological level of their race, it is not a problem to transform a dead planet like Mars and Jupiter into an ecological planet suitable for them to live in. At most, it only takes hundreds of years. In one or two generations, they can reshape the scenery of their hometown on a planet.
The factors that restrict their civilization development have long changed from resources to population, so they have no reason to think about the earth.
Jiang Chen was just half-believing and skeptical at the time, but after so many years, he believed it even more than 70% or 80%.
I still remember that when he asked about their purpose, this guy always kept silent. But now he actually took the initiative to provoke this, and naturally, Jiang Chen also acted as if he was listening attentively.
Since Howard has started this conversation, he will naturally no longer hide it.
Chapter completed!