Anybody e;se feel like this?
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I rather stick to the old understanding of cycles within which there are no new paradigms, what is is and always has been they say. They say if we would know the future study the past.
Dinosaur proteins, cells and blood vessels recovered from Bracyhlophosaurus – Not Exactly Rocket Science
Will We Ever Be Able to Clone Dinosaurs? | Mental Floss
I rather stick to the old understanding of cycles within which there are no new paradigms, what is is and always has been they say. They say if we would know the future study the past.
High infant mortality, no vaccines or germ theory, subsistence, no freedom, no rights, death in childbirth, treated like property, superstition, no education, no sanitation, endless hours of brutal labour.
The past sucks.
The past sucks.
Yeah, but on the plus side people in those days were hardier and more able to cope with a little adversity. Now we are getting soft and even immune to all the anti biotics - we've just risen with "the tide" so to speak.
Cliffy! I was meandering about Canada in June. Beautiful country, friendly people and astonishingly polite bears. We encountered many a bear and returned to the States without any missing limbs.
All my life I have felt like I didn't belong here, that I was born in the wrong historical time frame. Nothing about our so called civilization makes any sense to to me, no religion, not politics nor commerce. I never could figure out why the human species was so hell bent on destroying its life support system or slaughtering their own kind or any number of other species that have done us no harm.
This image came to me when I first saw the photo of that woman's face. Her expression begged to be put into this image. It is how I felt most of my life. I am only now coming to terms with why I chose to be here now.
Superb photo. It should cultivate thought and perspective for those with even just a remnant of grey matter left.
What do you mean by what you say here? "...I am only now coming to terms with why I chose to be here now."
That's the past we were always educated to. Fact is the good times have happened as often as the bad and two thirds of the stuff you mentioned is ancient science. Medicine, education, sanitation all were things of the remote past including leisure time we can only dream of. Maybe you see human existence as uninterrupted progress, that's crazy. Infant mortality in the USA rivals the third world experience today. So you still think you live in the best of times?
I doubt they are stronger or tougher.
They were just people of their times... just like us.
Adversity builds character and strength of spirit. We may live longer lives but I think they lived fuller lives. When I lived in the forest, I didn't spend 1/4 the time to maintain my needs that I do in "civilization". I was never sick, I had ten times more energy.
What a f*ing dreamer.
Ahhhh... to live in Colonial times or Pre Colombian America. Living each day to the fullest.
It was a struggle to survive each day. Get back on earth would you.
Ahhhh... to live in Colonial times or Pre Colombian America. Living each day to the fullest.
It was a struggle to survive each day. Get back on earth would you.
Yes
Says who? I guess all the refugees growing up in squalid camps standing between starvation, disease, murder and rape have so much character and spirit. They shouldn't complain. They don't know how good they got it.
To be fair, it's a struggle getting to and from work alive each day....weekends doing the running around I'm surprised I've survived...and not killed anyone...
Although I did run over a guy at Costco the other day...well his foot...with my cart. But he backed up weirdly and so basically his foot went under my cart...really his fault. I thought he was going to cry.
yeah, but considering how many people of our times can't walk further then a block without needing a nap or oxygen....
I am back here. I left because I was hit by a logging truck doing 95 km an hour while on a snowmobile. Would you also like a litany of broken bones too. If I could have, I would have stayed but life had other plans for me. My life in the forest was a lesson in alternative perspectives than the one I grew up in. I gravitated toward native spirituality simple because it made more sense in that situation. But I also had time to study many other religious ans spiritual paths from around the world, so my personal views are much broader than any single point of view.