I would feel strangely pompous if i stated that i know about addiction due to my previous lifestyle. largely because if i knew about addiction i would not have lived it. seems cruel to oneself to make such a stark disfranchisement, but rest assured i am secure in that position. because as many horrible events i can bring up and life anecdotes i can hopefully relate to the reader , i know that ultimately this would in no way provide information about what addiction is and other then possessing the unique quality of being a deterrent in reflection, it offers no real understanding. if you get that addiction as witnessed by the practitioner is a question of perception, then you are at the point where i can talk about what it is. the entry point to any addiction is a question of perception both on the practitioner and the observers and this is why the vast majority of them defy common sense. think of it like the three blind men, who having encountered an elephant relate to each other what they discovered. one would say the elephant is a tall trunk, hanging like a vine, another would declare that no, it is a rectangular series of stumps supporting a large frame and lastly one would say it is a immense bipedal wall that is precariously flat. the old version of this axiom is that only when all three definitions are applied are the blind men right and correct, however imagine if one was sickeningly dizzy, the other gravely opinionated and the last one socially impartial. there would be no definitive concept of the elephant but it would be agreed eventually that it was indeed there.

so to claim oneself as the authority of addiction due to the method or style in which it was expressed within the life of that person, is foolish. everyone i know and everyone i don’t know (if we allow the abusive use of sociology and its perversion with statistics) is an addict. actually the word perversion and addiction are quite interchangeable with each other when you think of it.however, as always i make a claim and i find myself trapped in having to define the validity of the it’s intent.but first, just allow that due to the fact that everyone is an addict and because of this , me stating that the past i have experienced and lived does not really make me anymore of an authority then the next person, which is important to understand when one wants to write about addiction or attempt to define it.it means that of myself i can say nothing, so i am forced to relate from where i do know and what i can state with confidence. that is what we think of addiction and what it is are two strangely alien creatures that have little if anything in common save the focus of the person who practices it. who also knows even less then the ones watching. therefore, even know countless blind men will offer their take on it and many different species of elephant addictions will be found and recognized. none can truly exist.

so, i have stated that we are all addicts. how can i say that i dont know anything of consitutional value regarding what addiction is, at least nothing that we dont know already that hasnt been witnessed or written endless times and many varitions before, but still state that i know we are all addicts? because, we need it to survive. our survival depends on our addictive tendency. the marked brevity of this discourse should obviously create a comparative form of denial among the readers, as they relate within themselves to what degree and nature i may be right or wrong. it seems that with humans when a statement that infers such a precept as this, there is always the pass off of it being an opinion. let me finally start off by saying, i hope sincerely that it is not. i can think of no other more important and vital requirement of any living thing, more so for humans.

however you may receive these words do understand that i am talking about the nature of addiction. which means why it exists and the purpose. this is easy to define and actually outline. the reason i suspect that some people would have a hard time believing this is because of the personal effect it has on themselves and others. which is fairly expected and i can totally relate. actually if you can understand this aspect then if i say that the whole reason addictions are a problem in human terms exists is because of our intimate connection to the body and the mind. that we can talk and rationalize aspects of our own and other people’s behavior so detailed that we get hung up on the slightest variations of sense and self. addiction can appear much different then what it truly is. such is the connection between humanity and it’s addictions that even the ancient humans with only a rudimentary understanding utilized multitudes of forms to moderate the profound effect it can have on the individual. buddhist monks, christian morals, chivalry and many stories have a message of being cautious and therefore aware of self.

the nature of addiction however is where i am more suited to talk about. which would appear odd to those who know and knew me when i myself was actively pursuing a socially recognized aberration of what would otherwise be considered acceptable. here too, i find that it is hard not to just go into a litany of my personal battle and confrontation regarding the senseless addiction i was suffering from. but, alas , no amount of my story will provide the what and how and more importantly the very true why such a thing should exist.that being, a behavior or repetitive action that can be detrimental to both the health of yourself and others. this would be easily expanded to anything we do that is dangerous. in the natural world, a few hazardous events relating to some action usually ends up in abandoning the event or unfortunately serious detriment. so with that concept fresh in your mind i offer the one addiction that is shared by all life. the desire and obsession to eat.

sounds crazy doesn’t it? but, i am actually very right about this. you see, at least in mammals there is a release of the very same drug that induces sleep in mammals when they eat. this is certainly present in humans and you can surely expect it to be in cats. lions, the males for instance have been known to sleep in excess of 10 hours when they have eaten.which conflicts greatly with what we think of them, but it means they don’t eat as much or often as we think. the sensation of a good meal, the sedation we look for. the sensation of well-being and fully repasted peace. well, that is a drug and we seek that every time we eat. it is an obsession and in early days we as individuals would place ourselves into danger at times , especially when pursuing a similar prey as other similar seeking animals. dogs, cats, wolves and any other extinct animal that remains unnamed all were seeking the same sensation of well-fed sleepiness that we ourselves look for. so we are hooked on that drug like there is no tomorrow. because if we weren’t, there would be no tomorrow.

this may seem at this point ludicrous to some people. but actually it is very real, very strong and highly addictive. the snack food industry and the concept of how media has manipulated the strangely acceptable bias of comfort food versus required nourishment and needed foodstuffs for survival. it is confusing, we don’t need some brand chocolate bar to remain alive, but we do need various combinations of food groups to effectively remain healthy. good and bad, yet we want the same effect. the same drug release into our systems. if i were to expand on this, the next question would be, ok mark, so lets just say it is an addiction, why? because, the amount of effort required, the needed energy spent in foraging and the very unpredictable state of affairs, being an encounter with a similar seeking life form or the lesser acquirement of food itself. we need the desire for that sensation that is created by the sleep drug to cause our minds to imprint both a desire mental and physical dependence on obtaining the food.without this , no animal would have the motivation really to seek out food. it is that simple really.

although looking for food is an example of real addiction, it remains probably greatly overlooked. just bear in mind that this action satisfies the requirements for the definition. hunting for food can: affect the social behavior of an animal, it can place it into serious harm ( ever heard of an angler fish?), it can result in strange ritualized behavior and a few other aspects of addiction as we understand it in social media. sex falls into the same pattern. more so when it comes to higher life such as humans,whales,cats,dogs and a host of other mammals that have some form of courtship and social grouping structure. in essence though, they say, talk about what you know about so i will explain the aspect from primates and humans.

within our variation of addictions there is a massive amount of deceptively simple or lesser grandiose addictions. so many fall under the social radar. workaholic, bibliophiliacs, pack rats or hoarders, people who buy excessive amount of clothing. yes, even hobbies are a mild addiction in potential. our so called advanced state of being exists largely in our minds and really only comes into realistic focus when we are banded in social groups. it is here we have the deepest and most profound addictions. the effect of oxytocin as it is released in the body naturally is beyond comprehension. it creates one symptom that remains the single most powerful case of how deep addiction can be. we crave human touch and intimacy. it is the nature of our success, through bonding and the sensation of touch , our nerves for touch are complex. touch, can cause a human to release a drug, called oxytocin. which creates a sense of brotherhood and bonding, peace and good feelings. it also can make it so anyone outside of the group is an enemy. literally, this drug can and does do this. this is the very same drug we hear about on the street. it seems that we are only told half the story.

we crave it, we produce it naturally as a addictive quality towards group behavior, it therefore can seriously alter not only our perception of selves but other people. it inhibits natural social and group behavior and it can be lethally dangerous. war, feuds,gangland warfare, tribal battles and pretty much anything that involves an us versus them , ultimately stem from this drug and the way it affects our perception.they curiously undermine this aspect when reporting and in medical journals, focusing with a vague reference about how they have used it to install the mother instinct in new mothers that have a deficience of oxytocin when they give birth. it helps them feel the maternal instinct, where without it there is no real connection. this drug is so addictive to us, that we seek peer groups and we will refuse and deny any outsider access. it is also a major element in sexual orgasm and the feeling afterwards. the actual opiate responsible for orgasm escapes me, but you can bet it is addictive too.

this certainly paints a different picture i am sure of things, but you see, it is necessary. without these drugs and our natural tendency to be addicted to them and it seems even things of the mind that can cause us to release various chemicals into our metabolism. stress junkies, adrenalin junkies and drama queens are all examples of people who are addicted to the sensation that each of these states release. once again, it affects their livelihood, their perceptions of events and pretty much everything else. one curious aspect is evasiveness, which causes a release of endorphines that both reinforce self perception and gives a mild rush in the body.fight or flight is a major source of various biochemical release as well. it can be easily demonstrated how each one of the addictions i have mentioned can be effectively beneficial and explicitly required for a human to survive. people pleasers are by no doubt required to survive and they service the addiction endlessly. against social,personal and logic restraints. yet, being this way provides rewards and chemical release. we all seek for the pleasure and pain aspect. but it isn’t the pleasure that we are constantly pursuing. here is where it gets more interesting.

as you can probably tell, we need these and the ability to be addicted to survive, it provides a massive incentive to preform tasks that are both potentially destructive to oneself and others. but as in the case of food, we have no real choice. but we are not seeking gluttony, not really, as an organism we are simply seeking balance and mutual coexistence.in doing so, a vast majority of the mental and softer addictions such as hobbies go by undetected and unrealized for the true nature of what they are.they all do have at one time or with varying degrees the same destructive effect over time and sometimes within a very short while after the witnessed behaviors effect.

so, i hope this helps people understand what addictions are. i have no idea why they exist other then the very need to survive. without them, there would be no reason. no reason to work, no reason to date, no reason to eat, no reason to sleep and many many more actions which provide a reward through our own indiviual selves. when i relized the true nature of my addiction, i had the toolset i needed to repel and fight back against the addiction. i hope to have provided the very same insight and with knowledge, comes ability, i hope i have given everyone an ability that will enable them to fathom their life. it will make my past of mistakes and addiction induced failures finally more bearable.

have you ever wondered why we chose light as our main sense for information? i know i have, when i was younger and freshly aware of the ability that animals have when it comes to the sense that provides update of the environment. say like smell or sound. when a person investigates the options a few things come to the mind. first is the fact that since bats can safely navigate in pitch black via the echolocation. speed of information of the carrier seems to be trivial. considering that being mammalian and the fact that yes some bats but mostly other mammals have night vision. why would the sound bats opt for this method? the advantage is elusive and remains for someone to uncover. since the bat uses sound which travels at roughly 700 mph at sea level versus light which travels at 186 696 mps (miles per sec: kind of like going two times and a bit over 2/3rds the circumference of the earth in one second), there must be something to it. however the day that the universe fulfills human logic is the day i stop thinking of these kind of questions. no time soon, i guarantee it. still, to make this more tantalizing the fact that some blind people use sound waves and the faint effect of rebounded sound on the tip of their tongues to navigate is just all the more intriguing. sound, as a means of sight seems unlikely and strange , but as we know the whales would have a few words to say on that.though, conceivably in water, for some reason i can fathom it, having more vibration and in a finite environment, it seems to make sense. however, light surely is the way to go. it is not a restrictive quality of earth alone. to espy light is to look upon one of the genuine forces of the universe. light, travels in its way from distances well beyond any possible ability to imagine from galaxies in space.

so light surely seems the winner. still questions come up. like why are the truly environmentally conditioned animals at the bottom of the deepest trench of the ocean seen to have markings when there is literally no light at all to be found? this question is perplexing. the truth is, life is tuned into many different wavelengths of light. it is incredible to consider that the color red, if it is down in the depths, may not reflect red at all but being a substance that reflects emf rays or photons, which are electromagnetic just like microwaves and radio waves, cosmic rays as well as pretty much anything that can be applied to the spectrum all belonging to the emf band. fm and am respectively exist just after light.(mixed with micro,x-ray and uv). so, surely the electromagnetic sensing the deep sea life has to locate prey at the bottom comes into play with the reflective quality of the markings on the denizens of the deep. they may very well see them. though i am not sure if it would appear as the same as we do. i can safely say that whatever the passive quality of reflected coloration that occurs is, there is a perception that means the same, even know color via reflected light doesn’t exist that deep. though some animals will glow and emit photons in the deep. there is still some valid reason for the actual color. the tube worm which lives at the bottom of some of the deepest trenches, has an entire life cycle and creates a valid ecology via the bacteria that grow within it. the bacteria are actually what break down the foodstuff into edible source, it is a symbiosis that defies the conditions for life. because there is no light , no possible way light can reach there at all. the whole thing proves that light is ultimately not a needed thing. yet they still have two colors with the top being red.

so light remains ever so important for most animals to see though. one reason why is because when it began , when life began to utilize light for information gathering, the atmosphere was deadly. mostly uv and what uv can do to a life form is damaging on the genetic level. so it was obvious that some form of detection was necessary .the trilobites had crystal for their multi faceted eyes. literally, crystal. able to be found naturally outside of the extinct animals biology.it had a faceted like set of eyes like what we see on insects today.the only thing i can comment on is that crystal is one thing that can slow the speed of light down. light literally slows down as it passes through crystal which is how quartz finds it’s use in electronics, by being able to slow light down in the emf and thereby regulate the flow through the circuit. these crystalline eyes disappeared with the trilobites.

the ability to take inventory of the surroundings has always been the difference between life and death. it started out with the ability to sense the chemical composition of the aqueous solution the organism was in. this has evolved to many states of complexity.i would wager a carry over of this is the sense of smell. which is by large one of the greater opted for solutions for life on this planet.the land animals use it to locate the hidden or unseen sustenance underground and more importantly , it enables the creature to detect the change of gas composition in the air. the main problem surrounding this is that largely bacteria create the sensation of odor and the undetectable gases are as one suspect, life threatening. still, it remains quite impressive how even some land animals can detect complex information with the sense of smell. dogs by far are the perfect example. one would surmise that what a dog dreams about when we watch them reacting to sensation of dreams, is smells. imagine, navigating and seeing the world in smells. i personally find it hard to even begin to understand what it is they ‘know’.

yet, we sacrificed smell and sound for the sake of light. more specifically the ability to sense the different reflective qualities of visible light. colors are keenly our gambit. not exclusive by no means to us, it still remains a key to the mystery of our origin. more uniquely our own is the stereoscopic vision we have which remains as yet unsolved. though i agree with the idea of us being hunters.insectivores more specifically. the three theories are as follows: we gained it for the purpose of manipulating and foraging seeds, we gained it to race through trees and lastly we gained it to hunt insects. as the theorist who figured the insectivore idea out states. squirrels and a large part of the animal population pretty much prove that running and highly skilled dominion in the trees does not require stereoscopic vision. they can do quite impressively well with the vision they have. this would also go with the idea of foraging seeds and other variations. he pointed out that prey animals have the eyes to the side of the head in order to have a near 360 field of vision. only predators have near stereoscopic or depth perception as a main component of their tool set. i find this perfectly legit. it may also explain the intricate color perception we have.

the ability to see light, is by far one of the most profound things animals on earth have. the distortion of light and potential optical illusions withstanding are greatly undermined it seems with the instantaneous and therefore highly detailed information received. there is a concept that i have always liked about us, life and humans who have the ability to discern through language what we see in a photograph. even know it has the radio waves and the heat waves and pretty much the entire spectrum (if present at time of taking the picture present). we cant see them, but they are there. to think that such a vast amount of information exists, in that small sliver of a stunning spectrum of a cosmic force. imagine, what some animals could potentially see in a photograph. it is bewildering.but i feel no envy, the richness of colors from the green of jade to the softness of dawn reflected on clouds. the majesty of sunset and intricate layering of sediment rock , crystallized and forever the sedating testimony of time beyond reckoning. what my eyes, our eyes, see and how we can perceive with the mind that we have. one can not blame us for the desire of reproduction. art remains our providence.it remains our testimony of an animal form that fell in love with the earth.

Something i have believed i noticed about house cats or pet cats is this envy of our hands. I can swear at various times in my life i have seen them looking at me and just wishing they could have what we got. They watch and they just don’t get it when it comes to that claw begot the paw thing.maybe cats just look sneaky and i am not really just catching this look of envy on me and my human dexterity but it all comes out good when you demonstrate just how good you are with your hands on their back. so they forgive you of that supreme one up thing in advent of a neurotic self cleansing of your human oil on their fur.my but they do tolerate a lot don’t they?

 Now cats, they are awesome as far as a needed ecology component. one quickly learns that in all ecological environments there is an example of the cat in every type of life, except maybe cellular lifeforms and soft tissue life. but pretty much every other type has a version of the cat in it’s closet. it is basically what the cat preforms that makes it so necessary. it maintains the middle and in the case of big cats larger prey base. they are quite varied and wildly opportunistic.bears would realistically cover this area were it not for that fact they are omnivorous and therefore are quite happy eating honey and berries. however cats have the call on small and medium prey with varied competition from birds of prey and reptiles.like the birds of prey and reptiles that fulfill the same ecological niche, they are what you would call specialist hunters. they have the fangs for the purpose of severing the spinal cord of the prey and rendering it paralyzed, the claws hold it in place after the cat has pounced.there is only one other cat in the whole world that hunts differently. the jaguar , which will sometimes use the claws to lock on to the chest of the animal prey and wrap its mouth over the nostrils and suffocate it till it drops.this is what cats do, how they hunt and the only way they can eat. they have no molars, so it makes me wonder why people buy the hard food. i guess they think their cats are dogs. all they can do is incise and strip flesh. they do not have the teeth required to break bone and grind as molars do. cats are specialists for a reason though, they practice and perfect when young by playing and watching the mother.

 The factor that cats and dogs as well as a host of other animals experience rem sleep and in theory dream, as is demonstrated by the animal reacting to the avatar or environment within the dream sequences they are experiencing is of special and worthwhile note . lets move on to Australopithecus afarensis or A. afarensis for ease now. when i was in university and we began the section on these hominid members of the primates there was a fascinating realization that overcame me when the professor described in his words the foraging behavior of these prehuman ancestors. A. afarensis was the same species as lucy and therefore is well known by anyone that was around when her bones were discovered. this species was also uncovered by leakey and his wife at Olduval gorge. where he researched and then provided anthropology with this information. roughly 5 miles from his spot there was a dried river bed and he found stones from that river bed at the site he dug. however most these stones were not exactly worked on. leakey deduced a concept about the afarensis that will stay in my head forever. they would go to this riverbed, pick up a rock, somehow knowing it is the right rock. this is noted because there is no evidence of any rock being tested or pieces of rock being worked on at the river bed location. 

 afarensis would simply grab the rock of choice, walk with it while it would go almost 8 miles in a rough radius looking for scavenge. they would traverse along the treeline because the jaguars would sometimes leave their prey on the ground when they would go sleep in the trees during the day.afarensis would then upon discovering a kill, create the tools they need , at the spot , for the purpose of hewing off the limbs and whatever else they could to bring back to a central spot and they would commune and bond with the food each one found. what is remarkable is, these upright ape-like hominids were able to project the possibility that there would be a need for the rock, carry it. then fashion what they needed for the task at the spot.this was the start of the advancement of human intelligence. it is fascinating to even imagine.

 though, to be more to the point there are monkeys now that demonstrate incredible ability to project a future outcome and make it happen or act upon it when it does occur. one such monkey , Capuchin , will hide stuff it has foraged from the lead monkey. it then will make the sound of a cat and quickly devour the stash before it is found out. this is in itself maybe not impressive on the surface. it is however incredibly impressive when you consider what really happens. this monkey can imagine that if it makes the sound they recognize as cat , or call wolf if you like. the other monkeys will run for cover, therefore react to a stimulus that is not even in the environment. the stashing monkey knows they will. it is incredibly complex and highly abstract.

 as our species went on and managed to invent and evolve culture. we created myths, to somehow involve the nature we saw and ourselves as an agent of it as a way of educating our people about moral good and bad. we began to give animals and elements personality traits.it was because at that time our psychology of self had not yet recognized a separation of nature.this went on for many countless years till agriculture was invented.when, we began agriculture we started making the gods somewhat humanoid. we had begin the seperation of humanity from nature.

the abstract thought patterns we have was what enabled us to be the greatest copycats and tool makers on earth.through the years of tactilce stimulation our minds evolved complex and our dexterity increased. there is a noticeable co-orrelation between dexterity and the size of our minds. you can see this in the tool technology of our prehistory and distant extinct lineage from apes. the more flakes the more refined the rock is, the more dexterity.  so the great part of the way we think and how we approach postulations such as problem solution, be it physical or mental we owe to our hands.the size of the brain is not easily applicable but from the casts of the cranial cavity of the fossilized remains, the folds and ridges which are a sign of advanced brains can be demonstrated as a correlative result. so the next time a cat looks at you and your hands funny. be happy knowing that yep these two paws gave me the ability to make things.

 they have every right to envy us.

 I have been into paleontology long before i studied at university. The second book i ever read in my life was this large book of dinosaurs , which was quite descriptive and very technical. i ate it all up. so you may say i have been into fossils and prehistory earth since i was 5. evolution and biology was my favorite aspects of science and i began to muse the crossover of physical and biological existence within the universal concept early on. needless to say when i was assaulted by the church goers for actually embracing this fantastic reality through my childhood, i began to grow a real resentment towards organized religion. i remember an argument i had with a priest once in a hockey rink. it was late at night, i was alone watching the team that was slated for practice that night. it was an open format, people could come off the street and go watch. i was using this to stay warm and to have a place to escape the perils of being a street denizen. next to the public library , it was the only place i knew at the time where i could just be allowed to go and exist. so i was 15 and homeless, exhausted from forcing myself to stay awake out of falling asleep in the cold and just trying to regenerate with the the coffee i was able to get from the snackbar. i was still very naive about the world of humans at the time and as a result i was trying to formulate the world as i understood it. trying to imagine how prehistoric humans survived. i was thinking of neanderthals and trying to piece together the way they would encounter the cold and living at the mercy of the elements. in retrospect i was looking for hope and guidance. 

 at any rate , this tall skinny priest walked up and sat next to me as i watched the team circling about like a bunch of circling buzzards on the puck. i lit a smoke and he asked me how i was doing. i have nothing to hide , so i told him basically my plight. wondering if the christian would give me money for food. apparently not. at any rate he began to quote his book. i told him that his book is second hand testimony and he has no real proof of what he is saying. a factor i am sure he has heard before because i remember he responded really quick, not demonstrating any pre-thought towards his response and meaning that it is rehearsed. it was as usual a lot of mumble jumble resulting in an authoritative opinion that equals less conviction then if he remained quiet. seems to be the one mistake these type of people make, they over do the tone and didactic nature of a precept of belief as if it was a fact and you automatically have a pretty good base of their mental state. i actually became concerned for him. imagine this for a second. here i was homeless and messed up emotionally with the fears of the earth at the age of 15. not knowing where and how to survive and i was actually more concerned about the priest then myself. 

 i asked him what he thought about neanderthals. they apparently were animals with no souls. i asked him why and he said they aren’t human. i said they were our ancestors and they came before us. he said that is just a theory. i go no its not, i said we have teeth just like them, hands and other stuff that is only human. he told me they don’t have a soul and they were animals. i explained if they have no souls, then why were they burying their dead with the possessions of the diseased? i waited while he thought about it. i said , wouldn’t that mean they had a concept of the soul? like the egyptians? but he said if they did they had a false god, they didn’t worship his god. apparently this meant they were soulless and animal. i began to really question his psyche at this point. i asked him what kind of a god that apparently loves all of creation , would condemn a species of human simply because it has a different name for it or quite simply had no way of knowing about it because writing didn’t exist. wouldn’t it be just suffice to have a sense of morality that is just and good and follow a moderate life? he said that they didn’t pray and worship the god he believes in. you know i said, just to survive in this human mess of self inflicted laws that have no basis in the universal reality without going crazy or hurting other people is good enough when it comes to praying to any creator. after all, whatever created us , just wants us to live and try our best to be human. i don’t see the difference between me watching the ballet of seagulls at a shoreline and loving the beauty of their flight to me paying verbal homage to an as yet proven concept of social control.

 such is the way i am. i have no problem accepting the universe as it is and i have always been against any belief that wont allow a person to just live. don’t get me wrong though, the ideal of most religions have merit. as they attempt to train the people how to approach the universe and other people in a non hostile or destructive manner. placing moral structure into our conscience and giving us the clarity of choice. things like this proves more needed in our metropolis and major cities then anything else. it is just not the only way and besides, the act of good and morally just actions is not an ownership of any imaginary god. our closest primate relatives demonstrate the very same behaviors. so there remains this need for people to belong to a group and feel part of, which as a teen and for most of my life, i have tried to avoid. i am not a group type of person. i feel this is not a unique thing nowadays. i don’t know, i guess when you learn about the witch hunts and mob mentality as a kid you just tend to stay away from that kind of potential scenario.

 so there i was , as i am now, only not as educated , thinking and asking myself  about our ancient prehistory.wanting to understand humans the way the universe made us and not our directorates want us to believe.it seemed like a good way to understand the earth and life. seeing as how, unlike the rest of the extinct species of life, i am an existing survivor and i can talk with other surviving members of my species. if i could talk to sharks or birds, well actually trees even, i would gladly drop our tom foolery and just try to find whatever it is i am looking for. however, i cant and so i discovered anthropology and have been in love with it since. it was anthropology and the fossil record of our species that gave me exactly what i was looking for all my life. proof that i belong and am part of the universe. that i am anchored and the earth is my place of birth. i was made for this wonderful doomed beauty (when the sun goes into red stage, the earth will be gone). however, my conviction is not based on belief, it is formulated from existing facts. things that can be demonstrated and pretty much proven beyond doubt. we come from a branch of primates. of this there is no question. of course this is just as scary to me as it would be for any religious type to accept. why wouldn’t it be? i mean , it is frustratingly harsh to have to constantly remind oneself they are an animal and they are in the universal sense really no different or better then any other animal. believe me, when it comes to animals, we really don’t hold up to what some of the wonderful forms of life have. this is why i get a kick when i inform people about ants. i love how the concept that basically they are superior to us in many ways. just luck and fate has it differently. the universe and chance creates such amazing results. it created the variation of all life. so it should be pretty effective in other areas too.

 chance and fate. no stranger to the primates. it was chance and fate that enabled us humans to exist in the first place. however, mysteries persist. one of the hardest ones to understand is when and how did we get so spread out. the most prolific wanderer was homo erectus. this prehuman has been all over. but we know it didn’t quite understand how to control fire. not like us. but somehow they survived. i have and always will argue that we humans as a species are not aggressively violent. it seems to go against our need to communicate and various physiological response that we exhibit when in groups as an individual. i don’t really believe that we would attack each other without provocation. however, seeing as how all we had at the time, as erectus was this stone axe. that is trademark for that species plus no real indication of controlling fire. ( an example we would look for is what we find in neanderthal dig sites. where there is fire spots that are encircled by stones. thereby containing and therefore a control of fire. nothing like this has been found in any of the erectus sites and the only maybe or possibility to date is a group of spears that have been hardened on the tips in fire. these may have belonged to erectus, but there is no real effective way these humans could have held them. their hands were always facing palm outwards , due to a structural anomaly. a trait they all shared.) but how did we spread out so far before our genus even exist?

 i have learned over time that what that priest calls soul is interchangeable to the concept of sentience. this understanding has been reinforced by the fact that as usual, we humans think we are the only sentience around. this is of course simply not true. elephants are sentient. this is really one of those facts that they wont come clean about. but it is always written down as a serious consideration. i have always wondered if the poaching of elephants classifies as murder. a question i had once asked a friend. no,was the answer, it isn’t human. i said in response, well no wonder no little green men will come to earth. when they see what we treat other sentient species that aren’t human , who can blame them? i know i wouldn’t. i would just keep on moving and go hobnob with microbes on titan or something. but anyways, elephants are sentient. i have no problem with accepting that and it makes real sense to me. but i remember, i was trying to figure out how, like where did this advanced form of social behavior come from. i was watching an African animal show, with the typical elephant parade going through the bright hot savanna. lions wanted nothing to do with them and gave them a clear path. i remember thinking how cool it is that they can just walk in their slow elephant way knowing that nothing wants to mess with them. i also noticed that a lot of other grazers and herbivores hung around them. it got me to thinking.

 so, as you know, we and neanderthal (mostly) lived off of the elephants ancestors. mammoths and mastadons. the precursors to them existed pretty far back, all the way to hominids like Australopithecus and gigantopithecus ( i think, i seem to remember one species that didn’t have a fully long nose like the ones we have now, it wasn’t that big either). but we were not always hunters. we were scavengers, pretty much up to homo erectus. i began to visualize the fact that we must have hung around them a lot. they would be free protection. plus, they cant see well at night, nothing provides a good alert like a bunch of freaked out primates scared in the dark. so i think, we must have hung with them and our interaction somehow conditioned them to adapt and create their own form of sentience. it could very well be an exchange. a similar type of possibility exists with the Capuchin monkeys that have this amazing system for preparing nuts and using a flat bed rock with stones to hammer the nuts when ripe. i think they are copying a behavior witnessed by them of some ancient tribe that is no longer there. we very well could have used them to get the tree’s fruit for us  by dropping certain ones to the ground.fossilized behaviour fascinates me no end. the possabilties are incredible. 

 so, it may be that we teamed up with the mammoths precursors and that enabled us to travel and reach places that make no sense otherwise. since we originated in africa largely, and somehow erectus has been found even in australia in fossil beds. we may have actively started to hunt them when we would get trapped in the frozen tundra, with no food to eat, we may have graduated from eating the dead carrion that we would find of them to eating them as fresh kills in the neanderthal stage.only the earth knows. i believe that such a true connection to the ancient past is what we need as a race in modern times to understand and fully accept our effect and causation within the ecology of the earth’s environments. we are highly opportunistic and practice a form of one sided symbiosis that i have only seen in one other animal, ants. so, in the end, if, my fascination leaves me stranded on earth for eternity, i could be no happier. because the earth is so beautiful i would want to belong to nothing else.

When i was a boy , my dad once tried to tell me what is inside of a car. He is a marvelously mechanically minded person. whose talent for understanding things machine wise has proven very advantageous during my childhood. however one day we were at the station wagon. typical brady mobile pontiac when he began to tell me what the different innards of the car were. this is called the butterfly valve, i nodded got ya, the lung. this is the fuel pump, right i said, the heart. he went on like that and i was translating it to what i would know the object as. It was funny , but it also worked, i have a pretty good understanding of cars as a result of me comparing it to a living thing. As time went on, i still find automobiles to be quite effective when thinking of life on earth. the whole transgression of cars from the model t to the electric hybrids that exist today is really like a primer to evolution and the process which is self evident in the fossil record. however, what motivates life to change this millenia ‘s model sedan is sometimes quite uneasily accounted for. when it comes to trying to understand the natural expression of life and the genetic evolution in its vast variety, there is always a stunning fascination one will feel. for the genius of life is far superior to any human mind, even know the mind is itself an expression of that very same genius.

 one of the things that i tend to debate a lot with geneticists is the concept of randomness they love to embrace. with their perception of the variance of the genetic code being mutation and it falls into the darwin concept of survival of the fittest. which, is really misunderstood by people these days. the term does not mean being the biggest silver-back gorilla and being able to fend off everything around because it is superior in strength.though to be honest, that particular idea works fine for the gorilla concept of being fit. really what darwin meant was, the species with the most offspring is the fittest. so, technically rabbits could potentially be the most fittest thing around, by numbers. rodents are one of the most fittest species of mammal there is. so although i can totally agree on this aspect with the genetic afficiandos , i do not necessarily believe that there is a wholey unbiased randomness involved. see, the dynamic that i am talking about belongs to life as a whole. it is self preservation and the will to live. this alone creates a quality that can only be recognized and is always incredibly genius in its expression. one example that comes straight to my mind is the nature of asian or mongoloid eyes. the extra layer of fat enabling these people to see in the brilliant glare of the snow. of all the possible solutions that would seem logical to the human mind, that is one that i doubt anyone would have figured out. we would have figured some kind of filtration of light glare or something along the lines of naturual sunglasses. but, an extra layer of fat/ incredible and absolutely ingenious.

 so,  we have this incredible intelligence in life that seeks to manifest the will to live and self preservation within it’s forms. sometimes , we can get a glimpse of life’s intelligence. due to its persistence of using the same type of solutions regardless of species. dolphins and sharks are an example of this. where a previously land animal , goes back into the ocean and it acquires the same answers that an animal that has been the model of perfection since it was first on earth. they have physiological traits that are identical on paper. streamlind body which is very close to a sharks. porpoises look more so that way , dorsal fins and flukes on tails that differ really because one goes side to side whereas the other goes up and down.when you consider that these traits are not exactly shared by other marine mammals , you begin to see the intelligence of life. though the reason why becomes hazy, as a manatee certainly throws a lot of presumption into the waste basket.yet here we have two species whale and shark both almost identical. whale sharks , with their broad head and snout (mouth) compared to other plankton eating whales, does itself almost seem to have found the same solution. to think that two species , completely alien to each other, with different stimuli (echolocation versus the magical lateral line of all fish) still manifest almost identical body types. it is hard not to think that there is an intelligence behind evolution. something not exactly bound by chance alone.

 ok, i sense a no duh moment here, but you see , most people want to attribute this to an invisible alien entity they call a god or perhaps to the universal way of a cosmic intelligence. it seems that very few want to actually accept that it is really just life practicing its will to live. maybe it is because it does it openly or presumed massive scale of such a change seems too unworldly . i dont really know. however, myself, i have come to recognize that life is a perfect way to know what is important in the universe. because life, pays absolute attention to the universe. i have marveled over this magnificent awareness of life for a very long time. as we humans typically walk around in our made up social and culture inflicted fantasy worlds. fully involved with it from a need to fulfill the primate requisite of socialized behavior. around us we have plants, that are intrinsically aware and devoid of the modern human world or mind. they are completely aware of the sun. the distance, the existence and object. they track it faithfully everyday admist us humans who are numbed by our creation of utopia. the reason why plants do this is not a mystery at all to us, but it is the concept that these forms of life are aware of a distance and an object that is so far away , the light that it sends is 7mins late.so you see, plants live in the universal frame of reference. they exist according to forces of the universe and live lifespans that defy any animal in existence and possibly extinct. this vast awareness of things that are completely lost to the human perpetuation of earth that animals and life has is almost as incredible as existence. birds are aware of the magnetic north, so are sharks,who use it to navigate where they are going. this means that some forms of life are aware of an invisible energy that still defies rational explanation except it can be recreated by electricity and appears to be a property of atoms. they can see it and react to it using it’s variation they encounter to adjust their paths of transit. all we can do, is use sound and the light of the sun as our navigational aids.

 all these things and pretty much everything alive on earth is an expression of this vast intelligence and it’s need to survive. nothing can solve problems like life. each peculiar thing that we find out about an animal is an answer to some complex problem that life has not only solved but as it continues to survive perfect. perfect so much that many different species belonging to radically different types of life will ultimately find similar solutions. yet for all the similarity there are some answers that remain absolutely fascinating in their concept. we humans have one such thing that is both unique and extremely genius. being bipedal we had to manifest a balance. since we don’t have tails (only the remnants) the counter balance afforded by a tail as was present in the dinosaurs is not available. the answer was to have the middle ear with hairs and one that will stimulate a sensation so keen, when we altered our posture.you may say, we have tails in our ears. however, it is the solution that is amazing. it defies rational thought. i doubt that any human would have come up with that as a possible solution.

 so like cars, life has these templates and amazing history of engineering solutions that when viewed objectively not only changed radically , but did so in a common fashion for reasons that became apparent only after the first car was made. cars , it seems always started out large and very waste producing. this is comparable to practically every type of animal that has ever existed. practically every specimen of life on earth has at one time or the other , had a specimen that was huge in relativistic frames of relevance. even cells have an example that lives to this day. the largest cell in the world is a ostrich egg.which brings me to what i wanted to talk about.

 there was this incredibly huge snake fossil found recently in brazil. the snake belonged to the python family and was around presumably after the dinosaurs . it was incredibly huge. very long and whilst obeying the proportion of a snake of immense length was very thick. it was a very successful predator and in theory should not have died out. for all we know it has, though there have been many sightings of incredibly large snakes in our written history. so it became a question of why did they die out. usually, like cars, it is because some force in the ecology due to lack or some other variable has occurred. there is a condition called island dwarfism/gigantism which is recognizable even to this day with some species of animals. this is easily attributed to the availability of food. however, these snakes whose name i forget, so i am going to call it megapython lived in an excellent fauna/swamp environment with it’s territory being challenged by it’s own predator.  it becomes a real question as to what happened to megapython. turns out the answer was not a result of ecological abundance. it was a ratio of body mass versus temperature of the climate. in other words, the climate was hotter when it existed, its metabolism was able to maintain incredible size. the reason why megapython doesn’t exist and probably doesn’t even in a cryptozoological meaning is because we are a few degrees cooler then when it lived. so heat equals bigger snakes. given the global warming this is something to look forward to for sure.

 so cars have given me incredible insight with animal both past and present , but what fascinates me is the story and solutions that life has come up with.because although cars can be easily understood about the reason for change. life is not so easily deciphered, but it has incredible understanding of the real universe so much that it does things that no one would ever be able to come near.only life , whose model t ford long after the other life and models came out unlike the real t-ford is superior even when primitive.

The premise of alien life is not a question of or if  it exists at all, it exists no doubt outside earth. as was recently confirmed by the fossilized meteor from mars last year. the rock itself was discovered a decade or so ago and it has taken this long to finally admit/confirm that yes it had microbial life and originated from mars. this roughly 4.2 billion years ago, whereas life as we know it came into being 3 billion years ago.personally, i love stuff like this.it is what i live for.to me it is almost as much fun as trying to figure out how our species ancestors survived and existed. they would most certainly classify as alien life and intelligence as any typical space creature. it is interesting really, we humans only became redundant and predictable when we became sapiens. before that it is a pretty varied spectrum and quite mysterious. the advancement of communication that would precede a ritualized form of burial as practiced by neanderthal, but having no other forms in physical state other then the artifacts of their stone technology remaining is mysterious as is the spread of homo erectus , while using only one form of tool the hand axe, in all climates. things like this are still within the realm of human mindset and it is more of a how or why then a what type of question. but life elsewhere? oh yea believe it. there is no rational reason to think otherwise. which given the modern vantage and our discovery of countless planets. most people are satisfied with this idea, they are too far away and too primitive (most likely) to be a concern.

 however for me, it is a matter of time frame and the reference point we look at it. i am quite conditioned to think in insurmountable frames of time. just the other day i was explaining to my friend how , most of the time no matter where i am, i am imagining the state of the earth at that spot at a given epoch. i went on to describe how where the region that we both live in was an inland sea that had these columns of plant life that would be more then 20 or 30 feet high, as if it were an underwater dense forest really. there was a massive amount of life around, fish and insects, i pointed at the ground and said and even the last remaining post Cambrian trilobites, some incredibly huge with one that looked like a carpet with whiskers would be right there. i cant help it, i love it so much , it just happens. that era was roughly 480 million years ago.offhand there are few remaining representatives left from that time, the sturgeon being one of them.still living and still existing in the lakes and in the ocean. something like three species are left. incredible to think of,the earth , at this point.so time and reference are a big part of how a person approaches the concept of alien life in the universe.

 towards the big bang, which is really just an easy way to explain a phenomenon about the universe coming into being and not necessarily the actual  event, weird things were happening. the concept of a big bang is descriptive of what happened when the universe existed, it is  way of describing, that everything existed at once. basically, as the universe expanded , everything went with it. so, think of a balloon being filled with air. the actual balloon is the edge of the universe, inside is the existence. i find everyone, including myself has a hard time picturing this. but try to imagine time,space, matter,everything including the physical laws coming into instantaneous existence and existing instantly to the expanding edge of the universe.there is nothing, the darkest of dark outside the balloon universe, but inside, contained and expanding as fast is everything else.so basically we have this happening even now, as the farther it expands the more the nothing becomes reality and existence. when it all first started, things were obviously different. in the sense that time and space were smaller and well, things just happened at a faster rate relativistically speaking. as a result the first thing a person who can at least conceive this understands is potentially every galaxy that exists may very well have had countless species that evolved and reached sentience probably many times and then vanished or moved on.

 so time reference is certainly a consideration. more so, if you can visualize this then imagine that the space we see, for the most part, the stars and galaxies, probably don’t exist or have long since moved out of our sight. we are seeing things farther back then earth’s existence now. which means that in reality a good amount of those objects aren’t really there.it is like the after image of something moving very fast. we can see the blur of effect, but the creator in reality has moved on long ago.this is fascinating and somewhat funny to me. cause it means that the sky at night that we see, is not really there. the map we have for places way beyond our reach is flawed. i have often wondered how come NASA hasn’t exactly stressed this point.astronomy is the keenest of archaeology when understood in this aspect.

 so life, with so much having happened already , most surely exists outside the earth and probably has been long gone since earth came into being. this doesn’t mean that there is no chance of life near earth. it just means that anything is possible, literally.one of the things i have noticed is the need to make life obey earth and its life. they talk about a cradle orbit and always are looking for planets that are similar to earth as candidates. this however is not even close to the reality of what is truly out there. such a limited view creates the concept of us being precariously unique easily.however, the real problem is not if life exists, it is the matter of expanding the conditions required for life.which is where i personally have the most fun. as it stands, when one approaches the concept of life, it turns out that pretty much everywhere can potentially have life. this statement usually creates a funny sense of metaphysical new age sensation in people. they will nod and say , yes there is a ‘energy’ which remains nameless or named that embraces life in the universe. however, this is not exactly what i am saying. what i am saying is more fun.more conceivable.

 when that archeo microbiologist produced the ‘alien’ life substrate in the salt lake of California, many people were not really aware of what was really happening. it actually was a very well timed curve ball. you see, it was announced previously roughly a few months beforehand that NASA was going to announce something awesome. we all thought that basically they were going to come clean about titan. a moon at Saturn, which incredibly most likely has life. it is one of those we know it without saying type of things that you see Hollywood actors do when making an ‘in-joke’ about the establishment. aside from the curious conspiracy theory aspect regarding the mysterious malfunction of the Cassini probe when it finally reached the moon with one of its transceivers (the left monitor) which was blacked out for a about 15 min or longer, then before we could figure out what happened it just magically came on perfectly ok and been working ever since. ( the conspiracy being that some higher -ups wanted to get a look at what was being sent before the rest of the world would, like a pre-emptive pg -rating). there remains the fascinating paradox of titan itself. which has methane rivers and ethane and countless amino acids in the atmosphere. what i love is the fact that water is lava there. the land is water, volcanoes of water exist there and what is really trippy is the concept that the atmosphere gets thicker as you go higher not lower as it does on earth.in the end all that NASA will admit to is that it is definitely a perfect representation of what the earth was like just before life appeared. though in a way i cant blame their position in this one. by saying the methane was created by physical chemical reactions they have trapped themselves into a no win situation. since they have to demonstrate how methane can exist naturally and therefore solve the world’s energy crisis or admit that there is life which as happens on earth through metabolic process creates methane in the ocean. you see it is a catch-22. so when that announcement was supposedly supposed to come clean on the very real possibility of there being life there, they threw in the arsenic based dna microbe from California. knowing that after a  few years they would be able to denature that claim easily from alien down to extremophile adaptation.the lady has not exactly been proven false in her claim. she has just openly said that the methods the labs who are trying to disprove it are using the same or valid research as herself. however, she is not really out to prove herself right, which was criticized by a few people wanting to believe. in other words , it was a beautifully executed curve ball which resulted in exactly what NASA had intended.
 
 my scepticism of NASA is probably obvious at this point. i have no choice and am disheartened by NASA’s seemingly hubris defiance to allow the human race to grow beyond the confines of the earth. so many of us would love to have the true and real hope of life outside the earth. it would give us faith and a reason to continue. there is a form of security in knowing that we are not unique and that in the end of things we are a true function of the universe. it makes us feel safe. however due to the church and other religious institutions it has been hard as hell to get anything out to the public. NASA fears what would happen if the religious people had to accept that they are not the only kid on the block and so they are forced to constantly renege on many fascinating discoveries. the first was the actual viking landing on mars made in the 70′s. the designer of the three tests for presence of life to this day swears that his method was true. he has spent his entire life from that moment,  in a  true and valid scientific method, reproving the findings of the probe. basically, one of the tests he had proved positive and constant reproduction of the tests here on earth have produced positive. however NASA continues to deny this. when the two rovers were launched recently, the inventor of the original life form test said that he cant wait to see his own lander’s findings confirmed. things were looking rosy till that horrible event about the stupid video that resulted in the embassy being attacked. up to that time, NASA was stating it was looking for life as part of it mission. either ancient or presently existing evidence. that religious video and the resulting violence and demonstrations worldwide may have caused NASA to change its tune. because they began to claim they were looking for the possibility to support life on mars.slight change in vernacular, creating an easy rhetorical escape route. meanwhile, as i said, we already know there was life on mars. the meteorite i talked about above pretty much confirmed and proved it. heck it even gave it a time stamp. imagine , how funny it is to see today, headlines in the science news that life has existed on mars due to whatever they been doing with the rovers. as if this was news.
 
 this is the way that things like this get hidden you know. people don’t pay attention to science news because they think that this is like school. that basically whatever NASA finds or for that matter science discovers is a separate classroom. technically it is not. it is real and actual history.as profound a human event as any other historical text. but such manipulation by the corporations and higher ups exists that people don’t get the connections. this explains many things that exist today when it comes to how connected we feel to true human progress. it also explains how, last year a British official in the parliament declared that it wasn’t really no longer an issue about the gene splicing resulting in human /animal hybrids that were estimated to be existing in the rounded number of a known 145 living specimens. he said that they have to figure a way to control it. shocking isn’t it? it wasn’t the fact there was human hybrid with animals that was the concern, apparently this is yesterdays news, it was how to control it. the first thing that comes to my mind is, how in the hell did this happen? well, now you know. the continuing opposition of religious institutions playing scapegoat and the overt techno-babble to discourage a common person from investigating science, hidden in journals with exasperating long titles and latin-esque names works pretty good. which makes the normal person believe they have to have a degree to have an imagination. honestly if this was true, in any way, do you think that lorenzo’s oil would have been discovered by his father? a construction builder?
 
 but it works. it works wonderfully . which is why when i try to inform people that there is roughly four places we are pretty sure that the possibility of life existing in our solar system is reduced to a rhetoric debate and not a sound proclamation they don’t get what i mean. the places that may have life are fascinating, hence the debate.venus,mars, two moons at jupiter and a moon at neptune plus titan. the environments are radical and it is the stuff of imagination. i love it immensely. venus is fascinating in the fact that the life there is most likely sulphur based. but imagine this, the compression of the atmosphere is so strong that the wind on the surface of venus is only a few miles per hour. as a result you can see impact craters from the time of the one impact on earth that resulted in the ending of the dinosaurs, remain in pristine condition on venus. there is no wind erosion and no real change of the craters. this along is stunning to think about, but what is really neat is the fact that the atmosphere gets thinner as it goes up and that basically there is definitely a point where thermal and elements are pretty good to support life. the fact that yes, they have found trace of amino acid in the atmosphere of venus only tantalizes more. imagine this, a lifeform that lives in the air. when we are informed that venus is considered a sister planet to the earth. that there is a very strong possibility that at one time it was potentially bearing life . well, it just becomes a matter of debate doesn’t it?

 neptune’s moon triton , has a possibility of life but is perhaps the most coldest place in the solar system. the same theory behind this moon involves jupiters moons. where the geothermal concept of water being liquid below an ice crust is applied. this of course creates a kind of theoritical dyson sphere concept. where the life would live in a finite space. it would be huge in it’s beginning then through adaptation and evolution become inredibly smaller. to maximize space and territorial proficeincy. the whole idea here is, as i stated above. it is not really a question of if there is life out there. it is a matter of expanding what the conditions required for it are. which, if you accept that the universe is constantly changing and therefore the premutations of matter under physical law create simply more refined and conditioned states of the matter , via chemical and physical. well, it just doesn’t make any sense that there isn’t. i don’t really go into a big discussion about the individual places because that is like telling you guys a movie plot before you see it. however, i hope some of you will be piqued to investigate some of the places i mentioned. more correctly to the idea of this writing though, you should consider the fact that amino acids were found on even comets. this has created the whole concept that maybe life on earth is the result of a comet strike on earth. so possible, they are actually considering this as the source of the first mass extinction. i love it when the plot gets juicy, don’t you?

 the fun idea is that if you expand the conditions, then lif eis possible anywhere even on the moon. since at a given latitiude the sunlight is degrees less and there is water present on the moon. you never know. which just makes it all the more fun doesn’t it?

 Sharks. I am Californian. Possibly the oldest memory i have as a boy at 4 years or 3 years old involves sharks. My mother had gone for a swim, i was alone on the beach. she disappeared  for a while, because of a current that made her go off base a bit when she was out there swimming. I was too young to understand that type of stuff, her extended absence was automatically feared to be from a shark. 3 or 4 years old and even know i have no recollection of ever seeing a shark, i knew what they were and i knew they were dangerous. i was afraid she had been eaten by one. 45 years old, i still have that memory of that fear strongly vivid in my mind. sharks to the mind of 4 year old are the perception of monsters. A huge , voracious creature that will steal people you love from you, it classifies right up there with any other imaginary creature that lives in the imagination of child. when, i read the comments of adults, towards the impending demise of the sharks. i was sickened. it is with the mind of an adult and educated one that i witnessed , such remarks as ‘go swim in the deeper water and see how you feel when one gets you or good, they will not be taking our fish from us. these and similar opinions were not exclusively limited to one or two people. it was the consensus of a majority as they attacked a person that actually was as dismayed as i am about the fate of sharks.

 as is wont, i began to fathom a complete spite for the people that were writing these idiot remarks. but, unfortunately as any university educated person, i began to rationalize this all out. slowly i began to realize that it isn’t them i am angered with, it is the very scientists that seem to be just pulling our legs when they claim that the attitude for sharks has been changed. they haven’t achieved nothing. it is terrible. they haven’t even explained the very real problem that we face if these beautiful animals are gone. so i have mulled over this all day. i have constructed so many mental scripts in my head, then i had actually decided that it is pointless, that the human race is diseased with its mindset and why would i even bother?

 My knowledge is primarily ancient stuff. yet, if anyone understands paleontology at all, they understand that sharks play probably more of a role then even dinosaurs. so, even if the actual science that deals with them directly is reneging and somehow not getting the extreme importance of these animals across, it seems that ultimately, by my nature , i have no choice. if, they cant get the common person to even realize what can happen with their disappearance or even get people to understand the impudent mentality these animals innocently face. then, i guess, it is up to  a person like me.

 honestly, i am finding it hard to get inspired to inform and educate about them, from what i know. not because of them, because of us. because we are allowing something that in reality never should be happening in the first place. our excuse of the past of not knowing what this kind of mindless destruction of earth does, does  not apply. we will be guilty absolutely , of wiping out one of the most incredible animals that has ever existed. faith is hard to find with these type of things. but first, i guess, i should give some education.

 sharks first showed up around the middle of the Devonian era. this is a time when roughly 500 million years ago (i am going by memory) , there was nothing on land. the best way to understand sharks is by comparison, so think of the role a cat plays in ecology. this is basically where sharks first began. they were scavengers and hunters. like tigers or any of the big cats, except lions.though if i was to apply the idea of a lion as far as pack or school, then that belongs to hammerheads. they are the only type of shark that travels in schools. (there is even something about the minor shapes of their heads that is recognizable towards their grouping). the rest of the sharks are like cats. lone and free roaming. the Devonian was an incredible time on earth. most of the survivors from that mass extinction display incredible abilities. something that demonstrates how they survived.the Devonian created boney fish, perciformes. largely only surviving in the land and fresh water systems. now, the boney fish dominate the waters of earth. the cartilaginous ones, that had proven domination are pretty much gone. sharks, are the last of that legacy save i think one or two other phylum( like the lamprey). the rest, are all ascendants from sharks. so basically any cartilaginous fish, is most likely a shark or in someway related to sharks. this, means that these creatures are almost the sole survivors, give or take a phylum. it is the same as finding a dinosaur.not by age , but because it would be all that remains.

 during the reign of the dinosaurs, the sharks were hunted and hunters. they were largely the middle section of the ecology. they predominantly thrived in coral reefs.which they do as well now. the large prey eating type, didn’t even show up till near the end of the dinosaurs and roughly during the Holocene. when mammals showed up. they expanded immensely , because the competition from the sea reptiles was no longer there. the only thing that even remotely still exists , that would classify as a competitor in dinosaur is the sea crocodile. sharks, live in a vast desert. the ocean. the ocean is a desert. the food is so far apart and they can go for weeks if not months not finding any food. this seems to be something the modern sharks are conditioned for. they have amazing stamina , with the sustenance digesting slowly. sharks are like artic wolves. who we know little about , but exist in a desert that defies the idea of survivability. part of the sales pitch i see from the biologists is that the shark is an apex hunter. however, so are we, we are not even naturally worthy of that title. it means nothing to state this, without explaining it.

 so, i choose to just explain it the way i understand it from prehistory. they as i said were like the cat in the coral reefs. there are certainly other predators in the reef as well, groupers,squid,tuna,barracuda,eels and octopus are examples. the thing is, sharks are their predator as well. not much will go after a grouper.any major upset of the ecology of the coral reefs will spell the end of them as well. yes, if the shark is gone, the ones the Chinese are killing off, are all mostly medium sized sharks, that are imperative to the healthy maintaining of the reefs. you can pretty much count the end of a lot of things when sharks are gone . this is exactly what paleontology learns and deals with. so, with history of the earth written in rocks, we know that a screwed up ecology in coral reefs equals, end of reef.

 an example of what i mean is, the condition that exists in some segments of the Japanese water. it is void of oxygen ,( one thing that may happen). as a result jellyfish are the apex hunter there. not very much else can survive there. with no predator to cull off the weak or diseased, the potential for disease increases and it goes downhill from there.This is the kind of effect that we witness with city pigeons and birds and house cats that are allowed to roam outside. the genetics of the pigeons is messed up because nothing can take that screwed up source away. it is called synurbanization and is a very real problem for us and the animals involved.sharks eat the majority of phytoplankton and the predators of phytoplankton. this will potentially create a ice age effect over time due to the amount of gas that is not being recycled by the prey. it actually will create the opposite of global warming. as the Japanese continue to kill off the species that is around the areas they are near, other ones will come in to replace that ecological niche. as a result it is just going to end up eradicating more and more species of shark. then, that is the end. really. this kind of stuff is exactly what happened with the previous mass extinctions, only difference is, it isn’t nature and therefore no animal can evolve a better state to deal with it. our technology will always out do animals and further , it would take roughly thousands of years till any evolution would be able to contend with recognizing the sonar and whatever else means we use. so basically, these ingrates, who have no idea about earth are providing the very real possibility for the end of this era.
 sharks are more then necessary for the well being of this planet. without them, we will be at extreme risk. even the opposition, whales, which eat phytoplankton and the predators of phytoplankton are at risk. so once again the world, with all this knowledge just turns a blind eye and stupidly thinks it is untouchable. that for some reason living in a middle of the metropolis protects them from the earth.honestly, i cant understand us humans , why we seem to think there is justification in the destruction of earth and subsequently life as we know it for the purpose of gaining wealth. money is not even an existing reality, we earn money, which can be anything from a loaf of bread to a car. it doesn’t even exist till we make it exist and then it becomes whatever we want it. we cant buy back a species of animal that is so magnificent that it has survive two mass extinctions . money can not make it suddenly reappear. but apparently it can make it disappear.from elephants, a surviving sentient species from the ice age, to polar bears and sharks, whales,primordial cultures of humans in a foraging tribal setting and well heck just about anything we humans feel looks good,tastes good or claim has magical properties is on the hit list. it shocks me. does everyone think that what we learn in paleontology is a joke or an opinion?
 to wit, we do know for sure there was three mass extiction, we also know that the last one was not only because of the metoer strike. the other two we haveonly theory. but real evidence to support the existing theory. will the human race be the cause of the 5 th mass extinction on earth? is this our legacy? i really cant say, i can say that as long as we do nothing, letting these japanese kill off the sharks that we pretty much are on that road. personally, i dont want to be part of a species remembered as the one that killed the earth. i kind of want to go in the opposite direction. i guess i am funny that way.

 Truth is a funny creature. It can take many forms and have only one effect. This proves to be conflicting when it comes to the impression and perceptions of our species and its view of the universe. Truth is universal and intimate to the individual selves that experience it. It becomes disjointed and often misled, because truth is an energy that remains impartial and at the same time exact. The elastic nature of it alone confuses most people into thinking that they own  or in some way possess truth where other people do not. This factor alone is a major source of conflict and pain in the world of humankind since the ability to communicate became refined. The action that i am doing now for instance, writing , is an expression of how truth, based on human perception can influence and create the illusion of connection to the universe. Writing was originally created to keep tally of the trade deals that were going on when agriculture first began. it was a way of seeing how much was owed and who was being dishonest. the earliest artifacts that contain writing have been deciphered to represent the spreadsheets of modern day accountants. That is why much of the ‘letters’ of ancient alphabets show or depict animals and other forms of produce. so, centuries long after the original use of words and written language was created, the written language has become a perception of truth,depending on a person’s private interpretation of truth. for instance, some of you may not accept what i just said and you may actually dismiss it’s validity. suits me fine, i mean i took archeology, it is after all a part of anthropology. meaning, it is true regardless of what anyone thinks or not, but here is what i am trying to show, it is still questioned regardless.

 Which is fine, the freedom to question anything that is of the human mind and rhetoric is a privilege which we humans endeavor to participate and share exclusively. It is after all just an extension of our ability to recognize connection and harmony within the universe that we perceive.What i mean is we all have to participate in order to fully define the universe we are in and, if a person maintains an open approach they can perceive a full picture of an element within existence through the positive and negative. the best way to understand this is through the idea of a vacuum, which can only exist if there is a container. so there is the inside and the outside, both of which depending on a person’s vantage define the shape and therefore the existence of the vacuum. many social issues we face these days are constructed this way in our minds, with our minds borrowing from both sides to complete the vision of the object which we , individually conceive as truth. These statements can permute into conditional arguments which go either direction but originate from a single statement or question. gay marriage, same sex families,abortions and even the concept of self defense can easily be shown to display exactly what i am saying here. however, the intimate nature of the thought involved and subsequent deduction which results into the solution, based on personal vision or perception of the object in question sometimes results in denial. such is the nature of human thought, which can have a positive effect in reality.

 universal truth exists outside the control of the human mind. we find this problematic. for centuries we have attempted to either control or in some way communicate with it. from the great diviners like Nostradamus or even the religious text of the christian faith called revelations, all the way to the horoscope and fanciful conceptions of spiritualism that exist in modern times, we have not allowed the possibility of being at the whim of truth, universal to stray far from us. Some of these dogma are passive and others are aggressive. but either way, they remain subjective. which is not all that surprising for an animal that is predominantly a master of subjective interpretation. it makes sense, when we are unconsciously aware of the passage of the sun at differing times of the year and arrival or departure of migrating animals. the sense of knowing just kind of dawns on us. how many of you are truly surprised when the first days of spring arrive? we , watch nature exclusively and intricately even in our modern times. yet socially amongst ourselves practice the belief of being in control and often even stating that we are in tune with it.

 human behavior is probably the first science that ever truly existed. we have body language which is genetically a language that is ingrained inside of us. each of us , so in tune with it , that we have physiological changes occur unconsciously inside of us regardless of our own thoughts. it is unavoidable and can not be controlled naturally, only manipulated . such was the understanding of the ancients. they attempted to try and impart an ideological foundation for both understanding and based on cultural differences what their society and its rituals conceive as good and bad. religions, for the most part are the first attempt to try and understand or acknowledge this reality in human existence. hence the attractiveness of eastern philosophy and the moral stories of Aesop. these and many other scriptures purport a sense of order and balance that in the long part utilized the foundation of what once was animism and our connection to the nature and the presence of the human self within. even the folk tales of brer rabbit, which originated from timeless African myths, had nature acting out various caricatures with human attributes. the christian bible, also has many references to human behavior and supposed outcomes.Sodom and Gomorrah for example represent a type of moral lesson which under the guise of religion is just a segment of the statement of what can only be considered as the first attempts to somehow understand the truth of humans and nature. if one expands objectively, the whole enterprise of religion and its effect on the earth both human and natural , is really just an experiment of mixed truths and their perception being forced upon a naive population. it displays the perversions of the human race and its potential for destruction exclusively.

 What i love about science is simple. science wants to be wrong. it really does. i want to be wrong more then i want to be right. i want to be able to explore forever the universe and learn it’s secrets. i don’t ever want to know everything. true science is never about answers, it is about greater questions.because true science is about the human race and its intimate communication with the universe. scientists let the universe tell us its story. religion is an ancient attempt at a single form of science , behaviorism , that was built upon second hand observation and had socially imposed mores enforced within it’s conclusion. it was never about discovery, it was about compliance. how can i say this? because, like i said, archeology is part of my science. basically the story is typical for any civilization. it revolves around trade. when we humans finally figured out how to bring water to the crops , we had finally solved a lot of basic problems. however, this was still during stone age and well, not everyone was gifted at making stone tools (for example). most fertile valleys or land was obviously becoming more populated either by campaigns or simply moving there. the demand for artisan and tradesmen became more stronger. so the answer was to make a central spot, where the tradesman and artisans would more or less live and dedicate their talents towards producing the tools and wares that people wanted. however not being able to tend to their own farms and keep up with the demand proved to be a problem. so it was incorporated that a donation soon to become  tax when money became norm.since not everyone was game to this ideal two forms of enforcement came into fashion, the regional warlord who would represent later the legal standard and the religious leader who incorporated a form of socialized behavior control through fear of the unknown and loose manipulation of human behaviors both instinctual and social. ancient Egypt is an example of this concept going into extremes, where for instance they were intent on getting the best of what each area had to offer through trade and conquest. so dedicated to this ideal were they, that the Greeks , who had little fertile land had a trade of warriors. it really all comes down to that simple concept. this is the way it has been since then, through history , even in modern times, when a person investigates the source for most social unrest, the underlying cause always comes to a form of trade issue.

 we created walls, which kept the wild animals outside our vision, reinforcing our sense of control of what we believed to be true. within the walls, we recreated the jungle and manifest a human perception of the jungle. to this day, we are constantly recreating the jungle of our minds into the present reality of our existence.believing it is universally true, because within our walls we can make it appear true. what i mean is, if you were to investigate the social norms of say the 1800′s and then the ones that exist now, no matter how different both in belief and perception, each in their respective age created a positive influence on the environment they existed in. the industrial revolution largely was a concern for most visionaries for this very reason, they for instance feared that we would lose touch with our natural selves. mary shelley herself was one such person. who wrote Frankenstein as a type of declaration against the advent of technology. she never described the monster being born from electricity and machines, she actually described the monster being born from alchemy and being born on a stormy night. the movies sadly left that out and wrongly depicted her true message. even Eisenhower in his goodbye speech warned about the control such technology would and most certainly has on us, when he declared that the military industrial complex had pretty much gained so much control, that we as a people had to do something about it. this fell onto deaf ears, just like mary shelleys similar type of warning. belief, faith and behavior as manipulated by the years of religious abuse of human behavior has had its impact. we stand at this moment, as a species, just starting to realize the extreme effect such careless behavior has had on the earth. not knowing what to do, not knowing who to believe.not knowing that  we are seeing the outside of the vacuum or the inside , just beginning to recognize the shape.

 when Rene Descartes had left his home , in a form of self imposed exile to the Swedish queen. he knew absolutely through word of his friend Galileo what would happen when he disclosed his world changing thesis. the scientific method was created as a way of discerning the truth. he knew what would happen with the church when he released it. so , he first used it to prove the most profound words of modern time cognito ergo sum or i think therefore i am. basically what it means is, he had worked out a premise that went like this. what if my god is really a devil and i have been misled all my life? how do i know who i am. he then proceeded to use his method of removing all plausible doubt, by investigating all possible elements he could think of that would play a part in perception of self. for example he stated that the senses are not indicative of self because senses lie, optical illusions can exist therefore he couldn’t trust exclusively the sense of sight. he even worked out dreams and instinct this way all the way down to one last common denominator, he realized that his thoughts were his own, that he, is the product of his thoughts. hence, i think therefore i am. then, he was fearful of prosecution of the church , so he quickly and not as effectively proved the existence of the christian god , using fallacy of circular reasoning and other lesser critical reasoning. he figured, that this would not get the church after him.released the thesis and the world was changed ever since.

from his dissertation, Darwin was able to work out the process of evolution,newton was able to work out gravity and practically every science had a real and substantial way of effectively existing in the universe of humanity. he gave humanity the ability to look at the universe and ask questions. to find truth, which can not be dissuaded unless a greater truth were uncovered or the opposing truth can be demonstrated.his gift, allowed us to finally question the universe and to finally listen to the universe openly. which is what we have been wanting all along. the church was threatened so much that it went and has been on a total disinformation campaign since. many people for instance don’t know that Darwin was as devote believer in his religion as his science. his private beliefs versus his incredible deciphering of the universal truth are in no way conflicting. he simply was in a state we humans used to be in. witnessing the universe and accepting it on its terms. our debt to Descartes, who facing the terrible affliction of pneumonia and his old age had felt so strongly about his gift to us, had exiled himself from his native country of birth and braved the cold winter nights freezing and living in a shack. so important that this brilliant mathematician, who also gave us the Cartesian map method, risked his life and prestige against the religious dogma, to give us the tool to question the universe and the means to decipher it’s answer. we owe everything to him, when it comes to modern thought and how we approach the world. now if only we can use it right.