Tag: thought of the day

“In fact, monotheism, as it has played out in history, is a kaleidoscope of monotheist , dualist, polytheist, and animist legacies, humbling together under a single divine umbrella.

The average Christian[/Muslim] believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist Ghosts.

Scholar of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources.

It is called syncretism. Syncretism might in fact be the single great world religion.”

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“من يكتب التاريخ يصنعه” السفير الدكتور علي عجمي

“Whoever writes history makes it” Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami

If you want to look at the cruelty of nature manifested in the hands of humans, look no further than your dinner table tonight.

In forager societies (the majority of our 250,000 years history), Grandmothers were more important to the survival of the child than his/her parents.

Thanks Grandma.

The religious and cultural definition of the adjective “natural” is contradictory to the biological definition.

In religious/cultural definition: natural means accepted by the religious norms.

In biology whatever is possible is natural.

“Biology enables. Culture forbids.”

“How did humans organize themselves in mass cooperation networks, when they lacked the biological instincts necessary to sustain such network?

The short answer is that humans created imagined orders and devised scripts to fill the gaps of their biological inheritance”

Yuval Noah Harari
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Two new epiphanies:

1. Evolutionary success is basically a higher number of reproduction and not necessary correlated to happiness or decrease of pain or better well being. 1/3 survival of a 100 is more successful evolutionary than 2/3 survival of 10.

2. Agricultural revolution was the worst thing that happened in Homo sapiens history

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It can be argued that instead of us domesticating wheat, it could be that wheat has domesticated us, especially that wheat had a better life as a result and huge population growth, while we had a worst life than before it (hunter gatherer societies), against our nature and built.

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The first Homo sapiens teaching New Zealand were the Maoris about 8000 years ago.

Fossil record shows that the majority of the local megafauna and 60% of all bird species were extinct within 200 years of their arrival.

Mammoths who have flourished for millions of years, as human reach their spaces, they were hunted to extinction. The last mammoths of Wrangel arctic Island disappeared about 4000 years ago when when humans reached the Island.

Out of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, 23 became extinct within few thousand years from the arrival of Homo sapiens. The Island was never effected by a worst calamity in history that the arrival of our species that acts like viruses to the environment.

History is and will repeat itself if not drastic measures are take.

Trump withdrew from Paris accord in 2018.

We have been in the middle as far as food chain for the vast majority of our history.

We used to eat after the scavengers Hyenas leave, whatever is left, and the bone marrow.

If we found a fig tree, we would eat as much as we can before the baboons came.

We just got to the top of the food chain recently. We still act like we are in the middle, by binging on sweets and high carbs whenever we can.
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