Johnnymontana's blog: "Thoughts on the Sundry"

One of the great mysteries of the universe is how in the midst of swirling seas during the formation of the Earth, millions of years after the Big Bang, one tiny single celled life form, swimming aimlessly in that early ocean could evolve into every species of life form we have on this planet an especially lead us to people who drink huge amounts of alcoholic beverages and wave lighters around at concerts but that is exactly what scientist tell us happened as life evolved on the Earth.  If there is a force behind the creation of the universe and us, it seems they would have thought to maybe intervene in the massive alcohol part of our development. The only thing I can assume is to do an intervention like that would have violated some unknown law of the universe regarding humans.  Sound silly?  Maybe.  It is clear however that we somehow seem to have universal laws that guide us in our existence here as well as those principles of physics and such that control the universe and this is another important clue in this series to help discern what the heck we are doing here floating around in the vastness of space.

We have come along way since the time Ringo Starr played a sensitive caveman with sensual cave woman Shelly Long. Many archaeologists have invested entire lifetimes in trying to discover what life was like for the first upright creatures that walked the Earth.  Somehow we are skipping the dinosaurs and other developing life and for our purpose are now focused on people like us, the caveman.  Archaeological evidence recently uncovered in various parts of the world suggest that prior to farming and growing food humans were hunter gatherers.  They basically wandered around looking for food and did little else except have sex.  Sex was, according to a new book out this year by a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, random and without planning. We were a promiscous species. There was no need for marriage or identifying sexual partners and so there was no need for the family unit.  Men in those days basically went out and killed something to eat or gathered food that grew wild from vegetation and then tried to find the first available female, have sex and slept.  Not much different from today if you think about it.

What changed everything was beer.  Don't laugh.  Anthroplogists who spend their time thinking about these things, tell us that after mankind began to settle and farm crops rather than hunt, one of the first things they discoverd was fermented beverages.  We know this from excavations where containers that contained vast quantities of beer have been discoverd.  I am not making this up.  It makes sense if you think about it.  As our ancestors settled and claimed small pieces of ground for their own it was necessary to begin to identify a family unit so they might leave that piece of fertile land to their descendants. They obviously developed a liking for alcoholic beverages and began to settle on one sexual partner as they ceased wandering and randomly finding sex in the same way they found their dinner.  Now planning was in place and it made more sense to have one partner and identify offspring.  This also is a very logical explanation as to how attorneys first evolved if you think about it.  

So as we look at the laws of the universe in a simple way it is pretty clear that we were not given marriage and the family unit early on in our existence on this planet.  We have learned that behavior.  We have also learned to hate attorneys.  It is also pretty clear that many people have also not shed the random sex thing that was so prevelant with our early ancestors.  I guess it is true some habits die hard. This is the reason some cultures had to start developing some rules in society to keep everyone in line and prevent needless domestic violence.  That has not, unfortunately,  worked out very well either. This is where we will pick up tomorrow as it explains the formation of religious thought and rules that governed human moral behavior. What we can say is that it appears that we change and grow much like our physical counterparts around the universe with one major difference.  We have the ability to make choices.  Whatever force created this vast universe made certain that we had the ability to be free. Unfortunately that freedom was not limited to just wandering as we wanted in the world.  It also extended to the ideas that enter peoples brains about controlling others, having power and hurting or helping those around us.  Some make the choice to be angels, others seem to be on the opposite end of the spectrum and want to be complete jerks to anyone they meet.  Most of us fall somewhere in the middle.  

It is my opinion based on these facts, and I have absolutely zero archaeological evidence to back any of this, that attorneys then are the cause of all that is bad in the world.  Along with farmers who got tired of hunting and gathering and having random sex and found it was better to have one sexual partner rather than 365 a year.  This is what caused the creation of religious thought and ultimately led to things like the Ten Commandments and Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea.  It is really esxciting to se this isn't it??  More tomorrow...sorry have to get out of here cause I have a need to gather something..LOL