Why are the ancient civilizations and thei beliefs not taken seriously?

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Gooood point to be honest.

A lot of what 'some' past civilisations have said has turned out to be accurate, or almost accurate anyway. However, a lot has been disproven or just hasn't occurred when it should have.

I suppose we discount it because we think our science and technology has advanced way past what they could ever have achieved, or did achieve, in their time. So we assume we'll be correct, and feel the need to prove everything before we'll believe it from past writings, etc.

As for the murder part, I see your point, but the way we carry out trials is a bit different to that of proving face/fiction involving science, astronomy etc. Imagine if we couldn't get convictions on circumstantial evidence (even if we knew a certain person carried out the murder) - we'd never reach justice! ;)
 
I pose this question to get opinions and to help me understand how other people think about it. To the point, people in our modern day court system are sent to jail for life on less evidence than what we have already learned about the ancients and their beliefs. How can a civilization who existed over 5000 yrs ago know that our Sun would be in perfect alignment with the center of the Milky way galaxy on Dec 2012? Further more, this is something that modern day people just figured out (relatively speaking). If they knew this, and it is now proven, why would we not believe more of what they knew then about life in general. (Mind you the sun/milky way alignment is just one example out hundreds of scenarios) This is a broad question because there numerous other examples I could go deep into detail with. So again, if we could convict a murderer on little evidence mostly compiling of circumstantial even, why do we dismiss all ancient prophecies, beliefs and writings? Why?
Obviously only one person gets it. The rest of you are all sheeple. You think you know, but you don't. that's what's wrong in this world. LOLOLOL! Things will never change for the better because 99 percent of you will never take anything seriously. this IS the end times they spoke of. A world full of idiots and materialistic belief systems. Sad, ver very sad.
 
THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT.

How could they of known it would be december 2012 when that dating system didnt exist, and 2012 is a result of christ being born, so they didn't know that either..

haha, where on earth does your information come from?
 
Because the leaders of the christian church, islam, and judaism were better at peddling their wares than the mayans were.
 
The prophecy doesn't say 2012. Nostradamus predicted some year in the 310st century. We disregard them because that would be cherry picking. There are at least, thousands of ancient religions, and thousands of prophecies in each one. Numerous? Yes, Numerous could be 10000. But 10000 out of 10000000000000000000000000000 prophecies isn't too many. THAT is why we disregard them.

And even then, the past people weren't stupid. When you think of the past, you may think the Dark Ages. But those were times when we didn't have much technology. No one knows the extent of the knowledge of the past. There are soem pieces of evidence that lead to a belief that Archimedes invented a battery.
 
Every claim must be evaluated separately. One claim of some ancient or modern belief being true is not evidence the others are.
 
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