HypersomniacLive: *sigh* Somehow I knew you'd say that. ;-D
How great if it would be that easy.
No dragons, no shit creeks that people are lost on, just sunshine and lollipops.
People are different, the roads are different, and even the goals are different, outside of a general approximation.
The gods of the classical age must have introduced all of these variables, and be smiling more than ever now, over our inability to solve the same things that have perplexed man from the beginning :)
Very easy to say these gods don't exist, they may very well not, but they fit quite well with the host of others things that we have never figured out.
Hell, a little magic and denial is almost called for when you look at our failure to address most of these things over the ages.
<full of shit mode off!>
Edit: I don't think that "full of shit" switch works; I may have to suffer the "on" position forever.