Category: Modern Civilization
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Hunting. Drawing. Being in oblivion. Doing art.
Visual imagery used in drawing regulates arm movements in manner similar to how hunters visualize the arc of a spear. Neanderthals had large brains and made complex tools but never demonstrated the ability to draw recognizable images, unlike early modern humans who created vivid renderings of animals and other figures on rocks and cave walls.…
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Congratulations! You are NOT going to become a dad!
Modern people.Anxious to buy a dog.Disgusted to the idea of having a child. How times have changed. In the old "dark" times Kings begged for a child to pass over empires. In today's "enlightened" times ordinary people kill children because they wish to go to Starbucks alone. In the old days one would rejoice to…
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Walking on the moon… Looking in the Sun…
A new controversial study claims that the moon was able to sustain life at some point in time. (1) We used to dwell in the darkness. We used to worship the dark Dionysus. We were not only born in darkness. We were molded by it. Yes, we used to live on the moon. But now…
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Are we getting less violent? No. (And we cannot)
Scientists battle over whether violence has declined over time. Contrary to a popular idea among researchers, modern states haven’t dulled people’s long-standing taste for killing each other in battle, a controversial study concludes. But living in a heavily populated society may up one’s odds of surviving a war, two anthropologists proposed. As a population grows,…
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Short answers to important questions
Hawking said that there is no God. (1) Should we care? The answer: No. Hawking was a good (not even the best) scientist in his specific field (and there are MANY fields in science). But he is not a philosopher. He actually believed that philosophy is dead. And surely he is not a good theologian.…
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