What Happened in All That Time?

Humans with brains essentiantially the same as ours haved lived on the Earth for maybe 125,000 years... are we really supposed to believe that the Human Being of 50,000 years ago was as stupid as the characiture of the savage cave-man image?

What really happened in all that time? What is the implication of the fact that people seem to have lived well without wars, writing, technology as we know it and even any record-keeping that we today can recognize?

Why do we assume that these people—who after all were as intelligent as you and I—were more “primitive” than ourselves? What if we shifted that assumption and began to look for evidence that would show us what actually happened instead of imposing chauvanistic misapprehensions on these people? What if our ansestors were actually smarter than us? 

Hi, this is a great subject, an does not get the input it deserves. I think there was plenty going on in the past with humans, like ,we do not know what killed off the dinosaurs REALLY, it could of been people with advance tools ,just like people think cell phones are the cats you know what.

For the last 2,000 years a man and his horse were the main means of communication -- until the arrival of the industrial revolution and then came the steam engine, the combustion engine, the jet engine and the rocket to the moon engine. Mostly all about transport and a few other things as well like better health facilities and a longer life for those lucky enough to avoid modern warfare.

About life on planet earth 5,000 years ago we know very little. There may have been a few nomadic tribes. Ten thousand years ago and we know even less.

Yet there are those great and learned men who speak with unbounded confidence of life billions of years ago.

Joe Bloggs

In spite of all the "evidence" that man is evolving from a jelly fish into a god, most of the dogmas on the subject are in fact based on faith -- just like any other religion. Can't be proved or disproved. But it's politically correct, that's the main thing.

Why don't we evolve backwards into cells? Or, better still, into jelly fish? Some of us might even enjoy evolving back into monkeys -- every day you meet quite a few.

Must have something to do with our messianic Western culture of always looking on the brighter side of things, every cloud with its silver lining, I guess it's all up to you, you could be better than you are, you could be swinging on a star. Or, somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue. Tomorrow we will reach the Promised Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. After the 70-year plan we will have established the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Ours is a Western optimistic culture full of hope and promise. As the impoverished Mr. Micawber would say: "Something will turn up." Never say die. Live and live more abundantly, says the West.

The Stoics and the Orientals, of course, had a different idea, a more pessimistic view of life: "Better never to have been born but, being born, best to die soon."

Life affirmation of the West versus life negation of the Orient. Affirmation dominates negation. Masculine dominates feminine. The aggressive dominates the passive. The strong dominate the weak.

The Orient, before it began to get Occidentalized, Westernized and Communized, used to believe in escapism from suffering and poverty and hunger and thirst. Escapism meant self-discipline and self-hypnosis only they called it Yoga and Mysticism (half misty and half schism). Being able to lie on a bed of nails was one of the four Cardinal Virtues. Not to feel hunger, not to feel thirst, not to feel pain were the other three virtues.

The only difference between primitive man and Modern man is a difference of refinement. Modern man is more refined. Therefore his cruelty is more refined. Primitive man, with his sword, could kill only one opponent at a time. Modern man, more refined, can wipe out a huge population centre with the press of a button.

But because he is so refined he would find sticking a spear into his opponent's guts quite nauseating. "Awfully disgusting, you know, old chap. Quite revolting."