The Romans were absolutely nuts about playing dice.
We wonder why on earth somebody could be so fascinated with a game which involved no skill at all, but was just a matter of random chance?
The answer is that the Romans had no idea that dice was a matter of random chance. The Romans didn’t know there was such a thing as random probability and a bell curve. The took it for granted that dice was a game of SKILL.
The key to understanding history is realizing that other people in other societies and in other times lived in different WORLD from ours. If you follow the Politically Correct dictum that “all people are basically the same,” you cannot begin to understand different peoples.
In Roman times, one only sailed on auspicious dates. A bird crossing overhead was an omen, as were endless numbers of other things. Astrology was a SCIENCE. The oracles were SCIENCE.
Like our modern social siences, the one thing other societies, past and present, never studied was RESULTS.
If you never check the results, astrology is science. If you never check the results, liberal intellectuals are intellectuals.
In Roman times, a person who talked to the dice was literally talking to the dice.
As with every other pagan god, JHWH dwelt on every word a person said. If you will read the context of the Lord’s Prayer, you will see Jesus considered all this absurd: “Let your answer be ‘yes” or “no,” “those who would attain salvation by much saying.”
Every other people lived on a world which was “the firmament” and where the stars were spread above us.
Look at Genesis.
That is not the world we live in.
In ancient times women were born with one less tooth than men because Aistotle said so.
In ancient times dice was a game of skill. They didn’t know there WAS such a thing as random chance.
Now tell me you are not blind in history if you believe that all people think more or less the same.
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