> >professions than chiseling. We even have people who don't even labor to
> >write the words, but orchestrate them on glowing flasks of void! And then
> >there are these crazies who create incantations upon those flasks,
> >incantations that are carried out by electron demons that take a portion
> >of a person's life work and assign them to tallies of value used by a
> Javilk, you crack me up :>)
> Reminds me of an excellent book I read recently, "Guns, Germs, and Steel".
> By a UCLA professor. Explains clearly and succinctly why some civilizations
> rose to dominate others, all because of biogeography. Nothing to do with
> superior intelligence.
I heard an interview with the author. Utterly Fascinating! The main
connection was in our cattle spreading all kinds of diseases to us,
killing off a huge number of our population. Stop and remember the
overwhelming majority of Asians, and a surprising number of Africans can
not digest milk when they reach maturity. This suggests a huge "notch"
carved in our European gene pool cut by deaths caused by our cattle.
> With the domestication of certain wild grains in the Mesopotamia (now Iraq)
> and western China, all that changed, leading to villages and people with
> time on their hands and then down the centuries to where we are today: only
Pickman, Shimkus and others have some evidence suggesting this was in
the Black Sea basin, before Noah's flood, racing through the Bospherous,
covered some 100,000 acres? sq km? of land area in a few months. This,
the consequence of a gradual rise in sea level of up to 140 Meters after
the ice age. (Marine Geology, March? 1997? Also reported in The New
Scientist in August or September, I think.)
It is within about a hundred years of the dates their core samples
suggest the Black Sea deluge occurred, that civilization, pottery, horse
culture, etc. sprang up in so many parts of the world.
That particular deluge could also be the source of the myth of
Atlantis sinking beneath the waves, Atalanta being the name of a Goddess
worshiped in those parts, as well as Mara, or Marah, the name of the
ceramic Pot Goddess who created mankind out of clay, then ate most of
mankind up again. (In Lithuanian, supposedly the oldest continuously
spoken language in the world, Mara means deadly plague,) Me thinks
Civilization was created of clay pots and clay bricks. Pickman's sea
floor coring probes of the area brought up clay that they said was
excellent for modeling...
This diasaphora effect would have been similar to the way some forms
of culture were spread to the USA by fleeing professors, lawyers, etc.
during the Holocaust. (Hmmm... see, we can blame our excess of lawyers on
Hitler! But we do have to credit him with our German speaking scientists
and especially our German speaking Rocket Scientists! No WW-II, no moon
shots, no computers. Miniaturization was driven by the need for military
satellites, once we had those German Scientists. Hmmm... seems we need
villians and villagers...)
The 140 meter rise easily explains world wide deluge stories, and
suggests that the Yellow Sea may have once been arable land, as well as
vast parts of land around England. It would explain why some
civilizations, such as Tibetans and Incas, climbed the tallest mountains
in the area, in preference to farming more fertile lowlands.
All this brings up the Eden Epoch, when temperatures were some ten
degrees higher, and food was abundant all over the earth. We are not in a
much colder climatic epoch.
But there is also the suggestion that many of the more blood thirsty
acts of pagan worship may have been both to assuage the gods regarding
particularly bloody earthquakes caused by post-glacial isostatic rebound
of the continental bedrock, as well as therapy for events when Tera Firma
wasn't quite as firm as most of us now expect. (C-C-Califaultians
e-e-excepted.)
Conference: Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilizations:
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/sis/cambconf.htm
> a small fraction of the population of the developed world spends time
> raising food, everyone else does wild and crazy stuff like staring at
> glowing flasks of void and muttering incantations to the electron demons...
Yes, and I kind of like it that way. Gardening, for some, is
incredibly boring!!! I suspect that a lot of us thinking folks would
have been burned at the stake in earlier times.
> In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or gates?
I dunno... I use Loonix... err... Linux, myself.
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