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1700 AC- 150 out of 1000 newborns died during first year.

1/3 of all children died before the age of 15.

2000 AC – 5 out of 1000 die first year. 7 out of 1000 die before the age of 15.

#thankyouscience

There are about 2000 billionaires on Earth, among which 30% don’t have a college degree.

29% of Americans believe that they will one day become millionaires.

American workers have been underpaid by as much as $10 trillion since 2000.

15 million US workers are self-employed.

There are today 6 millions job openings available nationwide, and most recruiters say there are talent shortage in the country.

My greatest epiphany of this year so far is that we (homosapiens) were better off as Hunters Gatherers and that the agricultural revolution 11,000 years ago was a bad thing that happened to us and to Earth.

1. We became domesticated and enslaved by crops and eventually by each other.

2. We lost the sense of freedom and mindfulness.

3. We had to work more hours, in straneous positions that had tolls on our bodies, and very boring jobs (while hunting was fun for men and gathering was fun for women).

4. We grew at unhealthy proportions, acquiring diseases, over population, and competition which made us loose our quality of life.

5. We grew far from communial societies, which brought us depression, anxiety, loneliness, and always missing someone that we love. We used to be always together with everyone we loved all the time.

6. We divided earth into monopolized properties and restricted human flow.

7. We created a construct of religions and kingdoms and social structures that added nothing but hatred and stress to our being.

8. More to come

العقل قبل المسلّمات

Mind over assumed truths

“طب كنتوا ليه بتعلمونا نحفظ البِرّ وجمايله؟

طب كنتوا ليه بتعلمونا نكره الظلم وعمايله؟

لمّـا انتو ناويين تسجنونا في أرضنا..

كان إيه لزوم العلم وهمومه ورزايله؟

طب كنتو سبتونا بهايم.. كنا نِمْنَــا مرتاحين!

إزاي أبيع أرضي، وعارف إن جسمي أصله طين؟”

هشام الجخ

ثلاث خرفان

“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.”

#Sapiens

“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.”