February 22, 2013
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door to door nut vendors
knocking at my door. i answer. ‘have you been received into the kingdom of god?’.
instead of the usual inquiry as to how these nuts got into the building and don’t they know by law they need permission from the owners of the building to come in and propaganda their dredge , i decide that heck i am game. my mistrust for these types is well founded. when i was derelict and on the street as they were in warm clothes ,seeing me freezing and exhausted fighting the cold minus sub zero temperatures.they would offer me two dollars for the privilege of hearing how apparently when i die, i will be saved. never extending the uniquely human quality of a warm place to sleep.just enough for a coffee ,so that i can artificially stimulate more Adrenalin into my system ,in order to try and stay awake in the sub zero, hopefully not to freeze to death.this is the type of reality i am used to.thankfully, my mind and my human self got to the better of me and i am no longer there. however, the decades of living this way has had it’s effect.the context in which a street person meets these people is drastically different then normally well adjusted people.
but anyways, i recognize them as opponents in my rational thought.it seems, that their main purpose is to somehow find a way to disturb a persons reality.place some form of doubt.somehow make them unsure.
unfortunately for them i am quite comfortable in my perception of reality.i have no real serious flaws in my understanding.i owe this to science and basic common sense. it is funny really, but the witticism of mark twain or the words of ancient philosophers,simple men and women who applied their gift of human thought towards understanding the universe in it’s own domain is way more effective to contemplate then any derisive slant towards a ‘us versus them’ mentality. it reminds me of when Socrates was questioned by meletus as to if he was aware that he was negatively influencing the youth of Athens.(basis for his trial). Socrates said, no man intentionally does himself harm. did any of you come to me and inform me at the time that i was affecting the youth?..meletus said no..(i always pictured this sheepish). Socrates said, well, if i didn’t know i was doing it how could i correct it? surely, if anyone told me i would certainly have stopped what i was doing. a classic event in that history, it was in that one statement that Socrates actually won the case , though the very logic he used would prove to himself that since he can not stop being himself.no matter where he went, he committed suicide. even when many people begged him to run away.but that is a different topic.
point in that statement is, the religious door to door , crowd hustling fanatics are aware of what they are doing and are intentionally doing the harm. we are supposed to be guaranteed our conscious selves in this country. it means that i have the right to my mind and my thoughts. you can think of it as a religion if you like or a belief system, though i am unsure since thoughts change. however, if for instance i was to go on a door to door traipse, declaring and informing the validity of say human ancestry.odds are i would be picked up and charged with public nuisance. apparently common sense is not protected under the freedom of expression, i would wager that maybe this is why there is very little of it out there.just a theory really..but sounds right.
so i calmly asked them what their thoughts on evolution are. the lady said, authoritative, it doesn’t explain what created life.
‘i said, well, i don’t remember Darwin ever claiming that he discovered the thing that created life,i think he did what newton did , basically demonstrated the nature of the thing we know of as life. the process of it. so i don’t know why that would be related to my question.well, she said, people think it is the answer to what created life.
(i am biting my tongue at this point. considering the hard time that religion has given the theory of evolution and the amazing manipulation of the public’s mind and ego towards not fully accepting or even understanding what Darwin really did. it is no mystery that the majority think that evolution is the answer to what created life… actually the answer to that is more into chemistry, seeing as how for instance the Saturn moon titan can create complex biochemical compounds in it’s atmosphere, simply by having a methane atmosphere and the act of the solar radiation (plus other geomagnetic stuff). it was actually proven in a laboratory experiment that this can happen. has been falsifiable, which means it can be done over and over again by different laboratories).
nah i hold my tongue.instead i am looking at these people.they are wearing clothes that are largely synthetic in nature.probably made of rayon.wearing glasses, which contradicts what their supposed god creature intended for them to experience life as.
i ask them what they know about ancient humans, explaining that i am an anthropology student. they start telling me about the Egypt and what not.i hold my hand up, that is history, i am talking about the Neanderthals or hominids.
they had no soul. really? i said, that is interesting.so only humans have souls? yes they say. i go so only black people have souls? they looked at me silent.well yea, last year they found out that pretty much every human , outside of Africa, has Neanderthal in them. something like 4 or 6 percent. that means we are hybrids and black people are real humans.therefore we have less soul then them.
they were visibly disturbed and i didn’t want to give up the game just yet, so i said but to be honest, genetics remains something of a swiss army knife towards what it is applied. for instance, mtdna, has no Neanderthal in it, but there is homo erectus.so, it depends on your preference, since most of the Asian population has remnants of erectus in the skeletal system in modern times, it seems more likely. sides i don’t believe the out of africa theory. too many questions remain for that to be the answer.
i could see they were getting uncomfortable and i had to take the opportunity. so i asked a question.
do you like the sound of someone grinding their nail across a blackboard? (notice how even you shuddered at the memory?..don’t worry so did i while writing it). yes , of course said the lady…who i gathered was the ‘educated’ one. why?.
well, it is just that the reason we don’t like it and shudder is because it is a instinctual response that is programmed in us from when we were still pack animals probably not even fully primate..could possibly go farther back then that. some zoologists once did a study of sounds that a multitude of pack animals make when a predator is around, compared the decibel and other sound qualities.turns out they are the same. so, as much as we think we are all that and more, apparently at heart we are still herd or pack animals that react to another species danger call. it happens unconsciously and is instinctive. which, if we go with the ‘in his image’ idea, means that his image is certainly a single celled organism or some microscopic variation thereof. then i said, coolly, i am sorry but i have a hard time thinking that the amazing beauty of this awe inspiring universe is the result of a microscopic single celled organism.since i can go back, quite effectively, and show (thanks to Darwin and his priceless influence on biology), that is basically where the really relevant roads lead as far as origin.
they grabbed exit and said bless me etc and went on their self justified criminal occupation of disturbing other people’s belief systems.
for one small second, i gave those two people a vision of the real universe. scary and beautiful,mysterious and millions of years uneventful.both fast and incredibly slow. the master of all within it’s domain. of course i know they are trained through conditioning and self adjustment to have dismissed science, truth which is repeatable for their maladjusted and outdated vision of a ruling dictator/imperialist type of universal structure.oddly, i am just as sad for them as they are for me.