[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Brett Paatsch]

Natasha writes:

> Throughout history there have been riddles that have intrigued
> and surprised. Riddles such as Fermat's last theorem*; how 
> Solomon bult himself  a royal place and solved the riddles sent
> to him by Hiram; the location of the legendary 'Sogdian Rock'
> climbed by Alexander's mountaineers somewhere out on the
> border of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, south-east of Samarkand;
> who was Kind Arthur; Schrodinger's Riddle, how life evolved 
> from non-life; or who were the people in Mesoamerica who 
> prepared the soil for the Mayan culture.
> 
> What are some riddles that some bear light, or a shadow, on our extropic
> transhumanity?

Here's one - what *political* purpose was served by postulating
the notion (and/or propagating the meme) of  god as a trinity? i.e. Three
persons - one god. Why three in particular (pace Pythagoras ;-) ? 

Regards,
Brett