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Thursday, December 06, 2007

anthropologists, propaganda, our past..and an alterative history

Every day I am in awe to hear this constant propaganda about meat eating as being a part of our humanity by people who want to classify us as 97%-99% of the same genetic material which made up the great apes; our cousins.. the chimps, the gorillas, the lesser chimp, and the orangutangs.

Scientists, anthropologists and paleontologists would have you believe the story about a point in time where we separated.. where we became tool users (which the primates already ARE and so are many birds) but also let us believe that no outside interaction happened.. and said that to believe that we didn't mearly create ourselves would be problematic and that no extraterrestrial life form encouraged us either... but most of all, it was via eating meat they would like us to believe that we EVOLVED our huge brains..right.. OK just on a purely science as a here and now sort of thing: Lets back up a bit on that meat eating thing..

I was told never to bring this up because A.) people will think I'm a vegetarian nut case... B.) I have no so called scientific background, and C.) Because it upsets the idea of "known and proven" scientific belief.

OK I'm bringing it up with all those disclaimers in mind.. but I think when we consider evolutionary theory, on a purely nothing other than ourselves.. and focile histories we have been given (I'm certain there have been hidden fossil evidence as well considering the domination of many of these ideas) Take for example the laws of energy; lets look at those who are closer to our size and form, the chimpanzee, it has less body fat, so much so it can not swim, or possibly float on the water and is often afraid of going to close to large bodies of water. Its energy needs for the body type they have, close to 4400 (I think I may have that wrong and its exponentially more) calories for a "normal adult sized chimp", what about us as machines? what about our calorie needs? Well the thing is we humans need less calories and function much better for walking long distances... a normal adult human who is rather active but maybe not so athletic needs roughly about 2200 calories.. and this an office working laid back adult. To keep most small framed female bodies at their full potential the daily recommendation of calories is even less.. and it goes down every year... we need less calories is the bottom line and we burn less calories than chimps do attempting basic things such as walking and moving about.

Now what is interesting is a chimp is constantly eating because it has to find its own food.. and does so with relative ease, in spite of the demand of even just moving forward.. if you compare the energy needs of a chimp just walking about, well, you know that they don't really stray more than 6 kilometers a day from a circular area looking for food.. but they can go off for many kilometers.. the idea I have is, we developed like the horse.. the small fossil fragments of bone found concerning the development of horses shows that they started off as rather small things, like mini deer and grew to dominate the flat landscapes..becoming more and more energy efficient but with that also becoming a very muscled creature..

Understanding the found fossils of the various stages of Australopithecus (did I even spell that correctly?) there were ranges and sizes of this species in the hominids which dominated up into the ages of homo habilus and Neanderthal man..but the complexity of the question people often provoke about these various creatures of man co habituating is, did one just dominate, and knock the others out of existence or do we have a various genetic contribution from many sides..

Even of not... could some of these various breeds of hominid be a part of our ancestral consciousness and times of the gods, such as The Golden and Silver ages? The mythical analysis shows many many types of humans.. even in the biblical myths but why is it we only believe in one? After all even in older biblical texts the myth of various versions of female such as Lilith:

I read one translation of a text speaking of how many versions of Eve there was after Lilith and how he rejected all of them until he got to Eve because one was too hairy or one was too something else.. but then Adam was supposedly put to sleep and his rib taken and they he awoke to a bejeweled Eve dressed in splendor and he couldn't resist her.. (now that sounds like alien intervention if I ever heard it!!!) If I was using the other computer I would have all the links lined up.. but I have yet to find those stories... so I will put this up as I edit, heck even help me if you wish.

But.. if its all about fossil records and such.. understand there is no straights forward line to humanity.. and also understand that maybe humans have developed a taste for meat, in general but this too has no baring upon our development of energy efficiency.. in fact it is shown that the less meat populations eat in general, the more I see a shift towards an ability to be even more fuel efficient.. that our calories are lower but our life span rises.. and this may be a problem for those wanting to control our bodies via sickness and economic hardship. I see it as control situation.. Maybe some Christians see the non-eating of cows by Hindus and the non-eating of pigs and shellfish by Muslams as harming the people..

I used to hear lots of things when I was younger from people who believed that world hunger would be eradicated if only Hindi ate cows! It turns out to be quite the reverse.. if people gave their food to cows to eat, to produce meat (instead of the letting them roam free and getting milk from them) there would be overwhelming starvation.. imagine the energy involved with the production of food that only goes to cows? Meat in other words would make the equation for starvation even more severe.

But never mind me.. I think that humans developed they way they did because there was a paradigm shift.. energy to stop and think, and yet energy to be efficient movers. Chimps can not go the same distance we can without burning up more calories.... and this is the bottom line, this is a surplus of 100% How does that translate? Well it means we need to move or get fat, which is something we know isn't good for the brain.. but moving too much and eating too little also has much of the same result... less ability to think.. so the action is a flexibility.. a flexibility of movement to the need for intellectual stimulation, other wise the relationship between the brain and the body becomes disturbed.


Too much body and not enough brain and you become one of the walking "sheep", not everyone, but the stuff which happens on a biochemical level can not be excluded.. the energy to the brain gets a temp shut off when exercising.. its just that way.. the higher functions don't get as much air time.. but too little movement in the body and the brain is getting overwhelmed.. so something easy like yoga is probably a great thing to do every day because it feeds both body and brain... and weather we like it or not, this competitive nature between body and brain is a part of our human/animal experience.

Like the symbols we see always, the Centaur (also the symbol for Sagittarius) wise but strong in body. It speaks to me and says that we can be as strong as the beasts we come from but also we can be ourselves, what ever that maybe.

I will edit as I go. As usual, but I put it out to see the direction I am going in... and suggestions and links will be added as well.

5 Comments:

Blogger Newspaceman said...

Hiya, do you think about centaurs a lot ? I ended up getting one tattooed just before turning 34 - somehow I had always thought things would change at that age - and they did.

I somehow felt this desire to get it done, don't know why really, something to do with my sun sign maybe.

cheers

Friday, December 07, 2007 2:31:00 pm  
Blogger AstroSphinx said...

Centaur as a symbol relates to other human headed/animal bodied symbols.. When I think of Centaur though, it comes down to Chiron for me.. and I do think allot about that astrologically just due to its location in its philosophy, (between the orbits of utilitarian/upholder of the system Saturn and utopian rebellious Uranus)The Maverick.. is another word assocation for Chiron.. but Chiron has no astrological rulership over Sag..(Jupiter has though)...but thinking about the relationship between man and horse and another angle at a secret history.. the Europian/Asian connection..this does have much to do with Sag and Jupiter..as well as the horse... foreign relationships made that association as well as the relationship to man and animal especially the horse..there is allot of secret history concerning these things.. and the meeting of two continents hundreds of years previous to when they were thought to have made contact. It only proves that there has been more tolerance and curiousity between cultures and that in the here and now, we are NOT the most enlightened of all points in history.. Is this the Centuar connection you were thinking of?

Friday, December 07, 2007 9:02:00 pm  
Blogger Newspaceman said...

I follow where you are coming from but am not that hot on the planet/philosophy angle.

I understand the basics of each planet but to read it as a whole picture is far beyond me.

thanks though,

brian

Sunday, December 09, 2007 9:36:00 am  
Blogger Newspaceman said...

I follow where you are coming from but am not that hot on the planet/philosophy angle.

I understand the basics of each planet but to read it as a whole picture is far beyond me.

thanks though,

brian

Sunday, December 09, 2007 1:40:00 pm  
Blogger kerstin said...

You should read the Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan. She posited a revolutionary theory of evolution although she is not an anthropologist as such, but a journalist. Her theory is now becoming accepted in some quarters. She suggests that our loss of hair, our ability to communicate, our face to face sexual couplings and our body fat are a result of apes moving to the water during the Pleistocene period, known as the 'aquatic ape' theory.
Whales used to be dogs you know...

Monday, March 24, 2008 11:52:00 pm  

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