An atheist critic of GetWisdom declared that the story of the Anunnaki using humans as slaves to mine for gold is ridiculous, because it would be more logical and productive to use robots. Can you help us understand what actually happened and why? Why did they not use their commanding technological superiority to bypass the need for slave labor?

This is a logical question to ask, but it bypasses the true meaning of the Anunnaki being a depraved species. If one is solely concerned with the mining of a mineral, the quickest, simplest, and least costly means of doing so is the logical choice and would argue for utilizing advanced technologies and seeking exquisite solutions for automation by robotic machines of various kinds given the wherewithal to construct such devices. But that is assuming there is a logical need and a desire to have a logical solution that is based on principles to maximize efficiency and minimize inconvenience or burdensome and laborious tasks by the living beings who otherwise would have to take over that role. In the case of the Anunnaki, they enjoy the role of slave master. Nothing gives them greater delight than to be in a position of power and lorded over lesser beings who they can manipulate, diminish, and torment by turns. So to the Anunnaki, to have a fleet of robotic miners holds no great joy compared to commandeering a race of beings they feel superior to and want to see serving them and to be vulnerable to punishment at their whim and as a means of enjoying the suffering they must endure or perish. To a human being this seems needlessly cruel and a much poorer choice in terms of potential productivity of the exercise if the most important goal is harvesting the mineral in question. So we are pointing out that the harvesting of gold was a secondary consideration. It was the desire of the Anunnaki to punish humans, to subjugate them, and impoverish them as their slaves. That to them was a tremendous reward and benefit of greater value and as such represents a perverse delight that can only be described as "depraved." But this is the workings of the mind of the sociopath and not a divine human, even one enamored of a secular philosophy—they will still be connected to their divinity to some degree and have been shaped by divine teachings through their culture and their upbringing. Even if not within a religious family, the whole of the culture is based on Judeo-Christian perspectives for the most part, and that will rub off because people are naturally spiritual and will respond innately through their innate inner wisdom to a divine path, and will be drawn to what works that is in keeping with those perspectives at least to some degree. So this atheist is not thinking like an Anunnaki because they are not yet so far gone as to be loveless and depraved and he has God to thank for that.