Why is Africa stuck in the stone age?

[Wilikon]

This is not meant to be an offensive post, I am genuinely curious as to why Africa is so far behind the rest of the world.

The Roman Empire had running water, amenities, reliable shelter and clothing for its entire populace 2,000 years ago. 2,000 FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. They created art, sculptures, vast architecture using 2,000 YEAR OLD technology yet if you go to a random area in Africa, it is plagued by poverty, destitution and just overall squalor.

Why is Africa 2000+ years behind the rest of the world and what can be done to correct this??

2000 years ago when there was Roman Empire it was Ancient age and not Stone age.

I think oprahwindfury did not mean the literal Stone Age. I think that he (she? it?) meant, simply, a time long ago. After all, he says "2000+" which makes the time inexact.

Everybody who is anybody knows that the Stone Age is a fictional time developed as part of a scientific religion to pull distraught people from Christianity (and other religions) into mental political control of university scholars so that they can get their funding easier. It supposedly ended about 2000 years before God created the universe, some 6,000 years ago.

Funny enough 6000 is a number not to be found in the Bible at all. 666 is 
http://realtruth.org/articles/090203-006-science.html

When you read the Bible the word Eon is also present in it too.
http://www.saviourofall.org/Tracts/Eons2.html

Eon is a tiny bit more than 6000 years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale#Terminology

[contagion]

When you read the Bible the word Eon is also present in it too.
http://www.saviourofall.org/Tracts/Eons2.html

Thank you for teaching me something new! Much appreciated!

[Wilikon]

When you read the Bible the word Eon is also present in it too.
http://www.saviourofall.org/Tracts/Eons2.html

Thank you for teaching me something new! Much appreciated!

 

[BADecker]

This is not meant to be an offensive post, I am genuinely curious as to why Africa is so far behind the rest of the world.

The Roman Empire had running water, amenities, reliable shelter and clothing for its entire populace 2,000 years ago. 2,000 FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. They created art, sculptures, vast architecture using 2,000 YEAR OLD technology yet if you go to a random area in Africa, it is plagued by poverty, destitution and just overall squalor.

Why is Africa 2000+ years behind the rest of the world and what can be done to correct this??

2000 years ago when there was Roman Empire it was Ancient age and not Stone age.

I think oprahwindfury did not mean the literal Stone Age. I think that he (she? it?) meant, simply, a time long ago. After all, he says "2000+" which makes the time inexact.

Everybody who is anybody knows that the Stone Age is a fictional time developed as part of a scientific religion to pull distraught people from Christianity (and other religions) into mental political control of university scholars so that they can get their funding easier. It supposedly ended about 2000 years before God created the universe, some 6,000 years ago.

Funny enough 6000 is a number not to be found in the Bible at all. 666 is 
http://realtruth.org/articles/090203-006-science.html

When you read the Bible the word Eon is also present in it too.
http://www.saviourofall.org/Tracts/Eons2.html

Eon is a tiny bit more than 6000 years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale#Terminology

While the word "eon" is NOT found in the King James or New International translations of the Bible, some translations might have this word - https://www.biblegateway.com/.

The dictionary definition of the word "eon" might be usable in some areas of Bible translation, since there are several meanings for this word. It seems that the translators have avoided this word, instead using words that better describe what is meant by the Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eon?s=t:

eon
[ee-uh n, ee-on]

noun
1.
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
2.
the largest division of geologic time, comprising two or more eras.
3.
Astronomy. one billion years.

If anyone would like to see that the earth is almost exactly 6,000 years old (+/- less than 1%), Biblically, go here http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm for a more detailed look at the quote, below:

Biblical Age of Earth

by  David V. Bassett, M.S.

Beginning with the archeological landmark event of the fall of Jerusalem (which has now been corrected to 588 B.C., instead of 586-587 B.C.) and counting backwards the prophesied number of years between this event and the division of Solomon's kingdom (390 yrs. + 40 yrs., according to Ezekiel 4:4-7), brings us to 1018 B.C.

From the end of Solomon's 40-year reign to the start of the Temple in the 4th year of his reign takes us back another 37 years to 1055 B.C.

From the start of Solomon's Temple "in the 480th year" (1 Kings 6:1) back to the Exodus from Egypt (hence 479 years previous) brings us to near 1534 B.C.

From the Exodus out of Egypt to Abraham's entering Canaan from Haran was exactly 430 years to the day (Gen 12:10/ Exodus 12:40/ Gal 3:17), thus around 1964 B.C.

Since Abraham entered Canaan at age 75 (Gen 12:4), he was born approximately 2039 B.C.

From Abraham's birth to Noah's grandson (Shem's son), Arpachshad's birth, 2 years after the Flood started, was 290 years (Gen 11:11-26), this places the onset of the Flood at around 2331 B.C. [definitely 4,300-4,400 years ago].

The genealogy of Genesis 5:3-32 precludes any gaps due to its tight chronological structure and gives us 1,656 years between Creation and the Flood, thus bringing Creation Week back to near 3987 B.C. or approximately 4000 B.C.

Therefore, the biblical age of the Earth (using Scripture itself as a guide) is 6,000 years !! Mankind did not evolve 4 million years ago on an Earth which is 4.5 billion years old in a universe which was "big-banged" into existence 18-20 billion years in the distant past. Jesus Christ, the Creator Incarnate, said He made mankind male and female in the beginning (Mark 10:6), and that when the heavens and the earth were commanded into being (Gen 1:1), they "stood up together" (Isa 48:13) not billions of years apart !!

[Aggressor66]

Africans settled in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.

[Wilikon]

This is not meant to be an offensive post, I am genuinely curious as to why Africa is so far behind the rest of the world.

The Roman Empire had running water, amenities, reliable shelter and clothing for its entire populace 2,000 years ago. 2,000 FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. They created art, sculptures, vast architecture using 2,000 YEAR OLD technology yet if you go to a random area in Africa, it is plagued by poverty, destitution and just overall squalor.

Why is Africa 2000+ years behind the rest of the world and what can be done to correct this??

2000 years ago when there was Roman Empire it was Ancient age and not Stone age.

I think oprahwindfury did not mean the literal Stone Age. I think that he (she? it?) meant, simply, a time long ago. After all, he says "2000+" which makes the time inexact.

Everybody who is anybody knows that the Stone Age is a fictional time developed as part of a scientific religion to pull distraught people from Christianity (and other religions) into mental political control of university scholars so that they can get their funding easier. It supposedly ended about 2000 years before God created the universe, some 6,000 years ago.

Funny enough 6000 is a number not to be found in the Bible at all. 666 is 
http://realtruth.org/articles/090203-006-science.html

When you read the Bible the word Eon is also present in it too.
http://www.saviourofall.org/Tracts/Eons2.html

Eon is a tiny bit more than 6000 years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale#Terminology

While the word "eon" is NOT found in the King James or New International translations of the Bible, some translations might have this word - https://www.biblegateway.com/.

The dictionary definition of the word "eon" might be usable in some areas of Bible translation, since there are several meanings for this word. It seems that the translators have avoided this word, instead using words that better describe what is meant by the Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eon?s=t:

eon
[ee-uh n, ee-on]

noun
1.
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
2.
the largest division of geologic time, comprising two or more eras.
3.
Astronomy. one billion years.

If anyone would like to see that the earth is almost exactly 6,000 years old (+/- less than 1%), Biblically, go here http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm for a more detailed look at the quote, below:

Biblical Age of Earth

by  David V. Bassett, M.S.

Beginning with the archeological landmark event of the fall of Jerusalem (which has now been corrected to 588 B.C., instead of 586-587 B.C.) and counting backwards the prophesied number of years between this event and the division of Solomon's kingdom (390 yrs. + 40 yrs., according to Ezekiel 4:4-7), brings us to 1018 B.C.

From the end of Solomon's 40-year reign to the start of the Temple in the 4th year of his reign takes us back another 37 years to 1055 B.C.

From the start of Solomon's Temple "in the 480th year" (1 Kings 6:1) back to the Exodus from Egypt (hence 479 years previous) brings us to near 1534 B.C.

From the Exodus out of Egypt to Abraham's entering Canaan from Haran was exactly 430 years to the day (Gen 12:10/ Exodus 12:40/ Gal 3:17), thus around 1964 B.C.

Since Abraham entered Canaan at age 75 (Gen 12:4), he was born approximately 2039 B.C.

From Abraham's birth to Noah's grandson (Shem's son), Arpachshad's birth, 2 years after the Flood started, was 290 years (Gen 11:11-26), this places the onset of the Flood at around 2331 B.C. [definitely 4,300-4,400 years ago].

The genealogy of Genesis 5:3-32 precludes any gaps due to its tight chronological structure and gives us 1,656 years between Creation and the Flood, thus bringing Creation Week back to near 3987 B.C. or approximately 4000 B.C.

Therefore, the biblical age of the Earth (using Scripture itself as a guide) is 6,000 years !! Mankind did not evolve 4 million years ago on an Earth which is 4.5 billion years old in a universe which was "big-banged" into existence 18-20 billion years in the distant past. Jesus Christ, the Creator Incarnate, said He made mankind male and female in the beginning (Mark 10:6), and that when the heavens and the earth were commanded into being (Gen 1:1), they "stood up together" (Isa 48:13) not billions of years apart !!

http://www.biblica.com/en-us/bible/bible-faqs/in-what-language-was-the-bible-first-written/

http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/eon1.html

We can certainly go back and forth for the next 2000 years. Or until bitcointalk.org's servers get destroyed by the Powers That Be....

But I am guilty of derailing somebody's thread, so I will stop right here.

 

[BADecker]

Africans settled in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Of course, this is 100% conjecture, with contradictory interpretations throughout the whole idea. Essentially, it isn't even theory. It is only touted as theory by political scientists, or politicians directly.

The Bible is the historical record made by the people who were there, and authorized by God, Himself.

[cisary]

TED-ed: The Atlantic slave trade - What too few textbooks told you by Anthony Hazard @youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg

[BADecker]

TED-ed: The Atlantic slave trade - What too few textbooks told you by Anthony Hazard @youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg

Expect brutal slavery in places in African like Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, Southern Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara (now considered to be part of Morocco), and others. Even South Africa treats some of its black people like slaves.

[Spendulus]

Africans settled in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.

You got it.  And my ancestors, the great Nations of Native Americans, traveled across a land bridge through the Aleutian Islands, from Alaska, then to populate Russia and China. 

[Bubbsandbubbs3]

This is not meant to be an offensive post, I am genuinely curious as to why Africa is so far behind the rest of the world.

The Roman Empire had running water, amenities, reliable shelter and clothing for its entire populace 2,000 years ago. 2,000 FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. They created art, sculptures, vast architecture using 2,000 YEAR OLD technology yet if you go to a random area in Africa, it is plagued by poverty, destitution and just overall squalor.

Why is Africa 2000+ years behind the rest of the world and what can be done to correct this??

They're kind of trying just not to die from
*worms
*malaria
*ebola
*billions of other diseases

[BADecker]

List of countries by life expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy.

[BitCoinNutJob]

Good life in japan, must be the diet and a rich smart country also.  Karpeles might bring the average down a little if he was fraudulent

[Spendulus]

.....the biblical age of the Earth .... is 6,000 years.....

I agree with you on that.

We may differ in our interpretation of the phrase "biblical age" though.

For example, I define it as horseshit.

[BADecker]

.....the biblical age of the Earth .... is 6,000 years.....

I agree with you on that.

We may differ in our interpretation of the phrase "biblical age" though.

For example, I define it as horseshit.

You are funny, but...

Scientists and archeologists observe all kinds of things. They take measurements. They calculate what happens when they use their measurements on this and that. Then they extrapolate their calculations towards things that they do not have real information for.

Recently, scientists and astronomers found a Star Trek style force field within the Van Allen radiation belts around the earth. Until March 2013, scientists assumed there were only two belts, filled with high-energy electrons and protons, surrounding Earth. However, a NASA-launched probe detected that there was a third belt in between the two.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/11/26/star-trek-invisible-shield-found-thousands-miles-above-earth
http://rt.com/news/210027-earth-shield-radiation-belt/
http://news.discovery.com/space/raise-shields-star-trek-like-barrier-protects-earth-141201.htm
http://www.business2community.com/space-science/scientists-discover-star-trek-style-shield-200-miles-earth-01082788

In other words, scientists overlooked something important until recently. Now they are reformulating some cosmology physics to match the new data. The point? We don't know much of anything by scientific observation. We may know loads of details. But on a scale of what there is to know, we know very little.

The larger point is, our interpretations of what we see are often far from the truth, simply because we missed some little, key element. So, how do we know what happened in the distant past? We interpret the age of the earth based on things that we see. Yet, like the above mentioned force field, we don't have a clue as to what we missed, at least not until we discover it.

The people of ancient Bible times wrote things that they observed, just like today's scientists. The fact that they didn't know everything was the same for them as for the scientists of today. The fact that they described things as they saw them is exactly the thing that modern scientists do. What Bible writers didn't do is assume that they knew more than what they saw.

The biggest point? Why do we often believe our modern scientists who are proving themselves wrong all the time, and we don't at least consider the ancient Bible writers who, though they may not have been corroborated by modern scientists, have not been proven wrong?

We are the people. We are so arrogant, like we know it all. Yet we constantly find that we know so little. When are we going to wake up and look at reality, and let ourselves know that we don't really know very much of anything?

[arbitrage001]

This is not meant to be an offensive post, I am genuinely curious as to why Africa is so far behind the rest of the world.

The Roman Empire had running water, amenities, reliable shelter and clothing for its entire populace 2,000 years ago. 2,000 FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. They created art, sculptures, vast architecture using 2,000 YEAR OLD technology yet if you go to a random area in Africa, it is plagued by poverty, destitution and just overall squalor.

Why is Africa 2000+ years behind the rest of the world and what can be done to correct this??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism

When people or historians pointed colonialism as an excuse, they should ask why the continent is so prone to colonialism and not able to defend itself. The truth is obvious for non-politically corrected historians.

[pattu1]

This is not meant to be an offensive post, I am genuinely curious as to why Africa is so far behind the rest of the world.

The Roman Empire had running water, amenities, reliable shelter and clothing for its entire populace 2,000 years ago. 2,000 FRIGGIN YEARS AGO. They created art, sculptures, vast architecture using 2,000 YEAR OLD technology yet if you go to a random area in Africa, it is plagued by poverty, destitution and just overall squalor.

Why is Africa 2000+ years behind the rest of the world and what can be done to correct this??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism

When people or historians pointed colonialism as an excuse, they should ask why the continent is so prone to colonialism and not able to defend itself. The truth is obvious for non-politically corrected historians.

It wasn't just Africa. Asia was prone to colonization as well.
They have turned out pretty okay now.

[iCEBREAKER]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism

According to that article, pretty much every place in the entire world has been a colony of some other place, usually at multiple points in time.

Colonialism is the rule, not the exception.  It seems racist to say that it's fundamentally different when white people do it to black people.

Unlike Africa, Taiwan and Israel have almost no natural resources (except for their people). 

European colonialists were certainly no fans of East Asians or Jews either.  And yet they thrive, despite their ancient and recent history as colonies...

Perhaps culture is a form of technology?

[BADecker]

Countries that offer individual freedom that cannot be overcome by their governments are the countries that succeed. It is only where governments do not allow individual freedom, or where individual freedom is lost somehow, that failure creeps in.

Every country that makes it a crime when someone harms someone else, or damages his property, and allows freedom every other way, is a country that succeeds. This does not mean that there are no laws. It means that all the laws are strong warnings only. If an individual harms someone or damages his property in the face of the warnings about how to act in a right way, then, the country that punishes him according to his crime, that country will thrive. But they will thrive only if there are no other laws.

Freedom is what makes a nation or kingdom or land thrive. Lack of freedom turns the best of people away from prosperity.

[Bubbsandbubbs3]

Countries that offer individual freedom that cannot be overcome by their governments are the countries that succeed. It is only where governments do not allow individual freedom, or where individual freedom is lost somehow, that failure creeps in.

Every country that makes it a crime when someone harms someone else, or damages his property, and allows freedom every other way, is a country that succeeds. This does not mean that there are no laws. It means that all the laws are strong warnings only. If an individual harms someone or damages his property in the face of the warnings about how to act in a right way, then, the country that punishes him according to his crime, that country will thrive. But they will thrive only if there are no other laws.

Freedom is what makes a nation or kingdom or land thrive. Lack of freedom turns the best of people away from prosperity.

Face it, he just blew your mind.

Seriously though, it's on this principle that anarchy would succeed if everyone would just not be a turd. If people were not BUTTS to each other, we wouldn't NEED a government. Or Obama.