I have been indoctrinated to consider that era the foundation of modern times, and my information about earlier events has been inadequate and largely propaganda that glossed over key developments. The Civil War and the European intrigues that spawned it was passed off as a purely American development arising from conflict between American economic systems based on slave labor and mechanized production with barely any relation to Europe. When I consider prior eras and the spasms of conflict across the world I have a hazy grasp of Abrahamic religious wars with almost no cognizance of developments across Asia. I have the view of these eras that has been given me for good reasons, preparatory of the crop of civil wealth about to be harvested across the West.
Dear @valued-customer !
Are you claiming that Europe started the American Civil War?
Only recently has lidar revealed the extent of Amazonian civilization, and the farcical attribution of megalithic building to Stone age Inca has been the narrative of our worldview wizards (megalithic structures relic across the world have identical toolmarks - of tools we do not possess today - such as on Easter Island and the Egyptian pyramids that the Inca certainly did not build). Millennia of the rise and interactions of these American empires, not just with each other, but with the Old World, have been eradicated from our knowledge. We glimpse ephemeral fragments of proof this intercourse occurred in Charles Hapgoods 'Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings', cocaine and tobacco found in Egyptian mummies, common lexicons in languages separated by the Atlantic Ocean with the relic Aztec from Aztlan, and only very lately genetic evidence from S. American chickens and peoples closely related to SE Asians. Some incredibly catastrophic events (war) decimated all these American civilizations, plunged their peoples into the Stone age, and eradicated survivors' knowledge of their history, all without a shred of this massive plundering of two continents being known to us today. ~12kya before that even worse happened, plunging the entire world into the Stone age. Gobekli Tepe tells us about this event and the Younger Dryas it caused, written in stone and buried for 10,000 years for our edification, and today this archaeological treasure is being reburied and planted with trees, whose roots will scrub the tale from the megaliths by reducing them to soil.
I believe that the civilizations of the New World and the Old World interacted through the sea!
Are you claiming that the Ice Age caused human civilization to regress to the Stone Age?
"Are you claiming that Europe started the American Civil War?"
I am saying that I have not been provided comprehensive and factual information about European influence, indeed, any extranational influence, on the factions that fought the Civil War, and what I have been told is not true. The best I can ascertain is that there were external influences I was not informed regarding, which lack was undertaken to deceive me that the Civil War was a purely American event.
"...the civilizations of the New World and the Old World interacted through the sea!"
This is provably the case.
"...the Ice Age caused human civilization to regress to the Stone Age?"
I find that more and more evidence is emerging that prior to the Younger Dryas a global technologically advanced civilization existed, since when and for how long is unable to be ascertained. However, it is demonstrable that technology more advanced than what we have today was in use, which is shown by the identical construction methods used to produce megalithic structures, as I have mentioned, and by various other archaeological discoveries, such as a mated pair of obsidian bobbins manufactured to precision of thousandths of an inch and identical to one another, presently in the collection of the Met (and likely not on display). Tales of Vimana, weapons that could create enormous devastation at distance, flying carpets, crystal balls, magic wands, and more were interpreted by the researchers of their time - who did not have knowledge of airplanes, cell phones, or monitors - as myths and religious allegory.
Today we have these technologies, and know that such descriptions aren't referring to some spiritual supernatural magic, but to technologies similar to what we use daily. Some of the things we find reveal abilities and technologies we do not possess today, just as researchers translating the Mahabharata did not have airplanes or nuclear missiles to compare the history therein to. Further, we have examined and understood the geological record written in stone to reveal that by ~9kya sea levels had risen nearly 100m and that the tale of Atlantis and Mu sinking beneath the waves isn't able to be dismissed with derisive snorts and mocking scoffery, but certainly what happened to perhaps thousands of coastal communities during the catastrophic global warming that occurred after the Younger Dryas that caused the glaciers to melt, and consquent eustatic and isostatic changes in sea level globally. ~90% of people live within ~10m of sea level today, and almost all archaeological discoveries of Homo species have been made in sites that were also, at the edges of lakes, rivers, and seas. We are a genus of semi-aquatic species and live where we can use waters for food, travel, and to provide security from violence. This certainly means that most of the archaeological evidence of human existence is underwater today, and we have not seen it, nor will until we look underwater. Technologically advanced civic centers prior to the Younger Dryas, would almost all have been on the coast - exactly as they are today, and more than 400 feet beneath the oceans now.
I'll have a look presently. You are kind to consider me.
Thanks!
Edit: I noted the discussion of riding a motorcycle in one of the videos that is linked to by the above links, and I had to get rid of my XR 500 because I so enjoyed catching air on it I was going to kill myself doing it. I had a property with a creek at the bottom of a bluff, and I started having dreams where I built a ramp at the top of the ~20m bluff and down at the bottom so that I could jump the creek and catch all that air on the way down. However, in the real world there would be no practice jump to dial that in, and there was a highway about 20m past the creek that I would have to run out the speed from the jump on, and I'd have no way of predicting the traffic I'd run into because forest obscured the view of the highway.
Doing IRL what I was dreaming every night was almost certain to kill me, IOW, and the yearning to fly over that creek was so strong it was becoming very hard to resist. I gave the bike away so that yearning wouldn't cause me to give in and splatter myself across the grill of an eighteen wheeler, or into the dirt next to the ramp I missed on the way down.
Riding is great, a great feeling, but has to be done judiciously, in the way that enables enjoying the ride - and living to enjoy the ride the next day.
I found the mention of me in your video and was deeply touched by your perceptive perspective on my effort to provide factual information I think people need to avoid the traps we are set by wannabe masters via my blog.
I also read the discussion of good food you posted. I have been eating the beets, onions, and other veg I have grown in my tiny garden, and have accumulated two years worth of raspberries I grow in pots so I can make some delicious jam with my favorite berry. During the last month it has been archery Elk hunting season, and I had hoped to gain ~200 kilos of lean organic meat, including heart, liver, and tongue, which are very nutritious and tasty in the right recipes. While I didn't take an elk, that was because I am new to archery and missed clean a couple shots due to pilot error. Next year...
However everywhere elk live innawoods hereabouts edible wild mushrooms also live in abundance, and I have ~20 kilos of chanterelles in my fridge awaiting sauteeing, vacuum bagging, and freezing for use throughout the year, and have been eating the oysters, chanterelles, and lobster mushrooms I have run across while hunting.
Interestingly, I noted that one mature bull I have been hunting has been living solitary, because living in the herd both causes him to be as easy to find as the whole herd (which leaves a trail like an avalanche traveling together from meadow to meadow), and also forces him to do battle with the alpha herd bull for access to females - and that is a lot of very hard work, as well as very dangerous because big bulls have a dozen spears they stab each other with during battle. Because he isn't traveling with the herd, he hasn't been able to access the sweet grassy meadows and has had to scrounge for nutrition innawoods and small pocket meadows that are too little for the whole herd to feed on. Chanterelles are strongly associated with elk, and he has been eating them in the patches I have been picking. When I realized that I quit picking in those patches, so that he can get adequate nutrition to sustain the effort of competing for and breeding the cows to pass on his genes, and to get bigger and stronger so he can take his place as the herd bull next year.
There are plenty of other patches I can forage chanterelles in, and I don't want to force him to travel with the herd where some rifle hunter might get lucky and bag him later in the year. I'm the only bow hunter crazy enough to hunt the very rough country he keeps to, and no rifle hunters get up that way either, so he's likely to be around next year if I don't strip the nutrition he depends on from his thicket hidey hole by picking all the chanterelles. I can pick out his tracks from the others and realized he was doing this by that means, because in all the places where I noted elk have been eating lots of chanterelles were his tracks, and not the usual variety when the whole herd is feeding.
Anyway, hunting tests a man, and you discover your ethical standards very precisely. I strive to be guided by principles that are morally sound to create a firm foundation of ethics I can depend on, and it is little details that can confound us if we don't run up against them by our practices encountering complexities that require our attention. That may be as, or more, important than the incredible cardio workout silently stalking impenetrable thickets on steep mountainous terrain provides me. Pretty sure the ethics are more important, TBQH. I get plenty of cardio packing 30 kilo bundles of shingles up ladders, or boxes of flooring and other materials when I am working.
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Dear @valued-customer !
Are you claiming that Europe started the American Civil War?
I believe that the civilizations of the New World and the Old World interacted through the sea!
Are you claiming that the Ice Age caused human civilization to regress to the Stone Age?
I am saying that I have not been provided comprehensive and factual information about European influence, indeed, any extranational influence, on the factions that fought the Civil War, and what I have been told is not true. The best I can ascertain is that there were external influences I was not informed regarding, which lack was undertaken to deceive me that the Civil War was a purely American event.
This is provably the case.
I find that more and more evidence is emerging that prior to the Younger Dryas a global technologically advanced civilization existed, since when and for how long is unable to be ascertained. However, it is demonstrable that technology more advanced than what we have today was in use, which is shown by the identical construction methods used to produce megalithic structures, as I have mentioned, and by various other archaeological discoveries, such as a mated pair of obsidian bobbins manufactured to precision of thousandths of an inch and identical to one another, presently in the collection of the Met (and likely not on display). Tales of Vimana, weapons that could create enormous devastation at distance, flying carpets, crystal balls, magic wands, and more were interpreted by the researchers of their time - who did not have knowledge of airplanes, cell phones, or monitors - as myths and religious allegory.
Today we have these technologies, and know that such descriptions aren't referring to some spiritual supernatural magic, but to technologies similar to what we use daily. Some of the things we find reveal abilities and technologies we do not possess today, just as researchers translating the Mahabharata did not have airplanes or nuclear missiles to compare the history therein to. Further, we have examined and understood the geological record written in stone to reveal that by ~9kya sea levels had risen nearly 100m and that the tale of Atlantis and Mu sinking beneath the waves isn't able to be dismissed with derisive snorts and mocking scoffery, but certainly what happened to perhaps thousands of coastal communities during the catastrophic global warming that occurred after the Younger Dryas that caused the glaciers to melt, and consquent eustatic and isostatic changes in sea level globally. ~90% of people live within ~10m of sea level today, and almost all archaeological discoveries of Homo species have been made in sites that were also, at the edges of lakes, rivers, and seas. We are a genus of semi-aquatic species and live where we can use waters for food, travel, and to provide security from violence. This certainly means that most of the archaeological evidence of human existence is underwater today, and we have not seen it, nor will until we look underwater. Technologically advanced civic centers prior to the Younger Dryas, would almost all have been on the coast - exactly as they are today, and more than 400 feet beneath the oceans now.
Thanks!
I'll have a look presently. You are kind to consider me.
Thanks!
Edit: I noted the discussion of riding a motorcycle in one of the videos that is linked to by the above links, and I had to get rid of my XR 500 because I so enjoyed catching air on it I was going to kill myself doing it. I had a property with a creek at the bottom of a bluff, and I started having dreams where I built a ramp at the top of the ~20m bluff and down at the bottom so that I could jump the creek and catch all that air on the way down. However, in the real world there would be no practice jump to dial that in, and there was a highway about 20m past the creek that I would have to run out the speed from the jump on, and I'd have no way of predicting the traffic I'd run into because forest obscured the view of the highway.
Doing IRL what I was dreaming every night was almost certain to kill me, IOW, and the yearning to fly over that creek was so strong it was becoming very hard to resist. I gave the bike away so that yearning wouldn't cause me to give in and splatter myself across the grill of an eighteen wheeler, or into the dirt next to the ramp I missed on the way down.
Riding is great, a great feeling, but has to be done judiciously, in the way that enables enjoying the ride - and living to enjoy the ride the next day.
I found the mention of me in your video and was deeply touched by your perceptive perspective on my effort to provide factual information I think people need to avoid the traps we are set by wannabe masters via my blog.
I also read the discussion of good food you posted. I have been eating the beets, onions, and other veg I have grown in my tiny garden, and have accumulated two years worth of raspberries I grow in pots so I can make some delicious jam with my favorite berry. During the last month it has been archery Elk hunting season, and I had hoped to gain ~200 kilos of lean organic meat, including heart, liver, and tongue, which are very nutritious and tasty in the right recipes. While I didn't take an elk, that was because I am new to archery and missed clean a couple shots due to pilot error. Next year...
However everywhere elk live innawoods hereabouts edible wild mushrooms also live in abundance, and I have ~20 kilos of chanterelles in my fridge awaiting sauteeing, vacuum bagging, and freezing for use throughout the year, and have been eating the oysters, chanterelles, and lobster mushrooms I have run across while hunting.
Interestingly, I noted that one mature bull I have been hunting has been living solitary, because living in the herd both causes him to be as easy to find as the whole herd (which leaves a trail like an avalanche traveling together from meadow to meadow), and also forces him to do battle with the alpha herd bull for access to females - and that is a lot of very hard work, as well as very dangerous because big bulls have a dozen spears they stab each other with during battle. Because he isn't traveling with the herd, he hasn't been able to access the sweet grassy meadows and has had to scrounge for nutrition innawoods and small pocket meadows that are too little for the whole herd to feed on. Chanterelles are strongly associated with elk, and he has been eating them in the patches I have been picking. When I realized that I quit picking in those patches, so that he can get adequate nutrition to sustain the effort of competing for and breeding the cows to pass on his genes, and to get bigger and stronger so he can take his place as the herd bull next year.
There are plenty of other patches I can forage chanterelles in, and I don't want to force him to travel with the herd where some rifle hunter might get lucky and bag him later in the year. I'm the only bow hunter crazy enough to hunt the very rough country he keeps to, and no rifle hunters get up that way either, so he's likely to be around next year if I don't strip the nutrition he depends on from his thicket hidey hole by picking all the chanterelles. I can pick out his tracks from the others and realized he was doing this by that means, because in all the places where I noted elk have been eating lots of chanterelles were his tracks, and not the usual variety when the whole herd is feeding.
Anyway, hunting tests a man, and you discover your ethical standards very precisely. I strive to be guided by principles that are morally sound to create a firm foundation of ethics I can depend on, and it is little details that can confound us if we don't run up against them by our practices encountering complexities that require our attention. That may be as, or more, important than the incredible cardio workout silently stalking impenetrable thickets on steep mountainous terrain provides me. Pretty sure the ethics are more important, TBQH. I get plenty of cardio packing 30 kilo bundles of shingles up ladders, or boxes of flooring and other materials when I am working.
Iron is hot presently, and I am pounding away at it while I can. The rains have begun, and the work load I am under will soon decline.