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OP said "morning coffee ritual", not the coffee maker. Put yourself in the seat of someone coming to look at your house 1,000+ years after you died. Most thing
by kodah 4y ago
OP said "morning coffee ritual", not the coffee maker.
Put yourself in the seat of someone coming to look at your house 1,000+ years after you died. Most things are gone but some things are intact. Our history and language was either wiped out or indiscernible. What would they find?
Well, in my house, here's a few things:
- they'd find that the softwood in my kitchen is much more worn than the rest of my house. We either spent a lot of time there or didn't care about it.
- they'd then find that there's bags of fragrant stuff by this steel machine with a pressurization cup that also has a steam wand.
- they'd find a water reservoir on the back of the machine.
- if I left in a hurry, they'd find cups scattered throughout the house, particularly in what looks like working areas.
- they'd find clean cups near the machine; some are plain but some are decorated!
Even from all this, they'd have to look at coffee beans to find out they're caffeinated, they'd need to determine the presence of sugar, spices, and the various types of milk humans use. The "morning coffee ritual" would still look pretty amalgamous, and lots of context as to what we did around it would be lost, but they'd get an idea around what it all was about.
- carlosjobim 4y agoIf the person discovering these things is a real scientist, he will say he doesn't know what it was for. If he is not, he will say it was for ritual purposes and that the stupid 21st century people believed a spirit lived inside the machine.
- kubanczyk 4y ago> believed a spirit lived inside Your own definition of "ritual". I think that socratic contempt for religion used to be an absolute fringe. Only recently we can distinguish betwen scientific and unscientific. For eons, people, educated people, could only distinguish between traditional and weird. That was their "knowledge" and they used what they had, because one needs to navigate their life somehow.
- carlosjobim 4y agoYou're expressing a kind of modern arrogance regarding past people that has no evidence. What makes you think that you know what and how ancient people thought? Maybe ancient people where much smarter and rational than the people of today? Considering they didn't eat toxins or spend hours each day being brain washed by a screen...
- kubanczyk 4y agoEqualing rituals with "stupid people believing in spirits" is arrogant. I don't say I know how they thought or how rational they were, but they sure didn't leave us any research on e.g. how to extend medium lifespan to 70.
- kodah 4y agoThe word "ritual" doesn't strictly have to do with religion or mysticism. Stand ups, retrospectives, and release ceremonies are also called rituals.