Beyond the Materialism of WEalth junyabee: Neither the luxury or Riches or the Deprivations of denial are what eternity is asking. We're already wired. We just have to get beyond the noise of materialistic or other dogmas and just feel and sixth-sense the power of eternity acting within us and all about us junyabee: Moving past the provincialisms of material hording or material denial, and letting the intangibles, metaphysics of the material be the treasures that take you beyond the temporal props that are the metaphor for those broader dimensions  Evelyn99: Really when you think about it wealth and contentment of having everything you need comes from inside you not from the outside I choose to believe junyabee: My latest take on the topic.. Capitalism v. Socialism: Material Convenience v. Ethics/Morality https://renegadehereticsdeirregulars.blogspot.com/2019/02/capitalism-v-socialism-material.html junyabee: Speaking about happiness and unhappiness from excesses.. the mystery of the Boskop branch of humanity, which was located prehistorically in SW Africa.. Per their large craniums, it is assumed they could and should have had a high IQ. with that IQ, the possibility for a resilient culture.. My take is that our anthropomorphic-centric vanity denies the existence of how cunning has been used more ubiquitously and mundanely by those w/high IQ than using the high IQ for more platonic or altruistic ends. Thus, the disappearance of the Boskops could have been just as likely from their sociopath tendencies (probably to the point of cannibalistic) w/the weaker and more vulnerable members of their own line, thus doing a self-genocide of their kind.. ARTICLE on them below Cannibalistic, monopolistic-globalist, management capitalism of growing inequalities and a captive employment labor pool for greater material consumption at the expense of a wage ceiling for hired labor, or the security of assured results of socialism within a communalist (other than communist totalitarian and repressive) authoritative, designated system. A seeming historically intractable set of Faustian contradictions. Being of an ecological equilibrium bias, I wonder how we became the extreme ethos of natural selection and survival-of-the-fittest that has derived from the killing or cannibalizing for basic maintenance and sustenance efficiencies in the natural world. I wonder about the possible extra-terrestrial, genetic derivatives, such as the 'Boskops': [IMG] A sketched reconstruction if the Boskop skull done in 1918. Shaded areas depict recovered bone. Courtesy the American Museum of Natural History The following text is an excerpt from the book Big Brain by Gary Lynch and Richard Granger, and it represents their own theory about the Boskops. The theory is a controversial one; see, for instance, paleoanthropologist John Hawks' much different take. Copyright © 2008 by the authors and reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch. The location was Boskop, a small town about 200 miles inland from the east coast of South Africa. These Afrikaner farmers, to their lasting credit, had the presence of mind to notice that there was something distinctly odd about the bones. They brought the find to Frederick W. FitzSimons, director of the Port Elizabeth Museum, in a small town at the tip of South Africa. The scientific community of South Africa was small, and before long the skull came to the attention of S. H. Haughton, one of the country’s few formally trained paleontologists. He reported his findings at a 1915 meeting of the Royal Society of South Africa. “The cranial capacity must have been very large,” he said, and “calculation by the method of Broca gives a minimum figure of 1,832 cc [cubic centimeters].” The Boskop skull, it would seem, housed a brain perhaps 25 percent or more larger than our own. The idea that giant-brained people were not so long ago walking the dusty plains of South Africa was sufficiently shocking to draw in the luminaries back in England. Two of the most prominent anatomists of the day, both experts in the reconstruction of skulls, weighed in with opinions generally supportive of Haughton’s conclusions. The Scottish scientist Robert Broom reported that “we get for the corrected cranial capacity of the Boskop skull the very remarkable figure of 1,980 cc.” Remarkable indeed: These measures say that the distance from Boskop to humans is greater than the distance between humans and their Homo erectus predecessors. Might the very large Boskop skull be an aberration? Might it have been caused by hydrocephalus or some other disease? These questions were quickly preempted by new discoveries of more of these skulls. As if the Boskop story were not already strange enough, the accumulation of additional remains revealed another bizarre feature: These people had small, childlike faces. Physical anthropologists use the term pedomorphosis to describe the retention of juvenile features into adulthood. This phenomenon is sometimes used to explain rapid evolutionary changes. For example, certain amphibians retain fishlike gills even when fully mature and past their water-inhabiting period. Humans are said by some to be pedomorphic compared with other primates.Our facial structure bears some resemblance to that of an immature ape. Boskop’s appearance may be described in terms of this trait. A typical current European adult, for instance, has a face that takes up roughly one-third of his overall cranium size. Boskop has a face that takes up only about one-fifth of his cranium size, closer to the proportions of a child. Examination of individual bones confirmed that the nose, cheeks, and jaw were all childlike. The combination of a large cranium and immature face would look decidedly unusual to modern eyes, but not entirely unfamiliar. Such faces peer out from the covers of countless science fiction books and are often attached to “alien abductors” in movies. The naturalist Loren Eiseley made exactly this point in a lyrical and chilling passage from his popular book, The Immense Journey, describing a Boskop fossil: “There’s just one thing we haven’t quite dared to mention. It’s this, and you won’t believe it. It’s all happened already. Back there in the past, ten thousand years ago. The man of the future, with the big brain, the small teeth. He lived in Africa. His brain was bigger than your brain. His face was straight and small, almost a child’s face.” Boskops, then, were much talked and written about, by many of the most prominent figures in the fields of paleontology and anthropology. Yet today, although Neanderthals and Homo erectus are widely known, Boskops are almost entirely forgotten. Some of our ancestors are clearly inferior to us, with smaller brains and apelike countenances. They’re easy to make fun of and easy to accept as our precursors. In contrast, the very fact of an ancient ancestor like Boskop, who appears un-apelike and in fact in most ways seems to have had characteristics superior to ours, was destined never to be popular. ================================= Could that have been one of the GMO'ed derivations off the existing hominid line, but for their own structural makeup went the way of the Do-Do bird culturally-going back to my hypothesis on cultural organization? junyabee: Another thought... SINGULARITY The psyche "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951 Version) Geesh! This is turning into a novelette for me! If I have posted this thought earlier in the thread, please indulge me as I repeat it again, "The possibility that we're component parts of another "organism", much like the cells are to us, could explain are not being able to deduce our 'creator' or know the limits of this cosmos of seemingly interminable distance and time, since we could be analogous to the micro-forms in our own body-universe: "we know of our basic functions and environment we can sense, but are limited by our technology to know about things and places to which we could travel or send to travel to within our life expectancy." The dreams and imagination of our psyche might be the conduit for the hints and clues to those realms beyond our grasp of empirical fact. I'm giving the 1951 version of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' as a metaphor for the answer of our singularity to origins and purpose of our existence. For those of you who dispensed downloading the link and listening to the audio play reproduction of the script, here's the quick summary. An alien landed here with an android robot to give the Earth a warning that our bellicose ways wouldn't be tolerated out in 'extraterria' because it violated the precepts of the cosmic order. If we didn't change our ways the cosmic order had ways to obliterate us as the android subsequently proved in very unsubtle ways. The script's inspiration could have been literally and figuratively inspired through the conduit from the singular source to the mind opened-enough for it to receive and wrap its head around the signals to produce that metaphor of a script. We could BE the molecular, component parts of an enveloping mass that can send signals to all its extensions to give them "directives" in subtle or more direct means (Like the dinosaurs in all their reptilian morphology had developed an intellect which could devise a cosmos-unstabling technology, which the "Mass" of the cosmos detected and sent its antibodies (the meteor) to end that shit developing on Earth by the 'Reptilian Civilization'. In our supposed free-will to be our own autonomous agency for our carnal self-interests we have taken a tract, which diverts us from our 'molecular mission' to this Terra-provincial conception, much like the pre-renaisance conceptions of the cosmic order were and are now considered so obtusely ignorant.. |