jakelafort wrote:
Robert, Not your most coherent ramble. Try some of Reg’s good weed. In some of the spots i can only guess the implications. No latent Jew hate? It is static? The zeitgeist does not change when the ideology changes? When leaders give dog whistles? If we think far right. Oh wait no far right? Just the right. You will have to e…

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@theencogitationer – the answers to both your points are “cooperation, sharing, and risky foraging niche”.  The great apes are savage to each other, and especially the pre-human (pre- Ardipithecus ramidus, 4-6 million years ago) great apes, as we surmise from looking at the relative canine sizes of males and females.  A big difference, with big m…[Read more]

The absurdity of the god question.

Lets ponder Superman or Masked Marvel instead.

Our insignificance in an uncaring and vast universe that’s crazily abstruse and yet the need to make it intelligible and purposive. Figuring it out or trying is in our nature but assuming we are the big cheese is infantile. There are no words to convey how Trump…[Read more]

Simon,

But you’re talking from the position of your armchair, off the top of your head, with no evidence.

The burden of proof rests with those who assert that there was a Garden of Eden/Golden Age/Noble Savagery.

Also, we know there is both intra-species and inter-species violence in the Animal Kingdom and the Primate Order of which Humans a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
There was NO Garden of Eden, NO Golden Age, NO Noble Savagery.

However, Power, oppression, and patriarchy did exist at least on a small scale and money existed when barter got too complicated

But you’re talking from the position of your armchair, off the top of your head, with no evidence.

Uh, ackshuyally, that did…

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