Pompeii was not the oldest thing I saw, because stuff in Greece were way older that Pompeii. But one thing that I knew after visiting Pompeii is that, I didn’t knew anything about the past.
It was really fascinating to see the people in 1 AD has lived in very modern life, way modern that we predicted.
With all the thermal baths, entertainment area, fast food restaurants etc.
When I saw the fresco on the wall, which was very detailed, colorful, well done, something that crossed my mind is that .. well people in current day think they were modern enough and people in the past was not modern, but it might not be the case.. because we knew very little from the past.
There might be different compared to these days, but we might be also the same.
What do we knew then? Nothing.
People already predicted that Syphillis was brought by Collombus expeditors but in fact it was already exist since Pompeii, 1 AD. By the fact the twins sibling that was casted has defective teeth that was sign of syphillis.
All predictions, history, story whatever might be wrong because in fact we knew nothing.
It was very mind blowing.
Pompeii as God Scenario
I personally think most Muslim and Christians believe that Pompeii was a part of “God scenario” to preserve those that was not obeying the rules, so we can take lesson from them.
We all know Pompeii is a sinful city, even for people nowadays using ‘western standards’ it is still not very acceptable (they put some warning for the content and move the sinful stuff in the special exhibition building), and most of the sinful stuff was also relocated in National Archeological Museum in Naples because it was in appropriate.
In Quran and in Bible, the scene of Pompeii is reported. That they were all “preserved in one blew”. It was correct, and mind blowing again, because Pompeii was not find until 1700, and they were from 1AD, but the Holybook already written about them long long time ago.
When I was there one archeologists said that, “The people in Pompeii was knew that there will be a disaster but they think they were gonna be fine because the wind shouldn’t blew to this direction (to the villages), so when the disaster happened actually it was because the wind blew in the ‘wrong’ direction, and they were all casted in one single blew.”
For me Pompeii is like very “religious experience” because all the scenarios was too complicated, to perfect to be just a coincidence. And it was preserved perfectly.. without Pompeii we never knew that in 1AD they were that modern in their house and the way of life.
Pompeii was preserved, and as believer I do believe that scene was just too perfect, to intentional, to be just a coincidence.
I was thinking “Do we have another explosion that cast the whole city perfectly like pompeii after pompeii?”
No we didn’t.
It was intentional.
Pompeii was intentional.
It was a warning to not glorifying the sin.
Extra: I kind a thinking how if God was not casting Pompeii, and their practice spreading like it was normal. This world might be full of that strange stuff, because there is nothing in this world nowadays can compete with pompeii strangeness not even Amsterdam red light district. imagine.
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