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Post by boomerchick on Mar 15, 2004 11:47:28 GMT -5
TECHNOLOGY: Weapons Ah, the fatal side effects of technology - weapons. If there is only one common interest to almost every society and civilization that existed at one time or another it is - weapons. We just love to find ways to inflict pain and kill each other now don't we? And with technology, we now have the ability to succeed in destroying all biological life on this planet. Silog is smiling or whatever a cosmic computer virus does when it infects a solar program. I wonder how the people who work for DARPA sleep at night. But then again maybe some people are here simply to find ways of killing other people. I guess its all part of the program, huh? --- Peter Gersten --- "Weaponized bees, robotic rats, sleepless soliders; does Mother Nature stand a chance in the face of the Pentagon's new science?" www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_201.html--- "Sonic devices that can inflict pain--or even permanent deafness--are being deployed." www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?session=dae.3301371.1078866848&prod=35072&modele=feature--- "...the Pentagon is looking into ways for GIs to fight for up to five days -- without eating a single meal." www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,62297,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 ==========
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Post by Swamp Gas on Mar 15, 2004 12:39:45 GMT -5
Anhtropologists think weaponry was invented by the Cro-Magnons to fught off Saber-Toothed Tigers, who were consumming Neaderthals and Early Cro-Mags.
The Neanderthals were more gatherers, and were seemingly more artistically and intellectually developed than the more brutish Cro-Mags.
Perhaps an intermarrying of the two species brought out a new hybrid human than was able to construct weapons, to basically save the human race at that point.
After the Tiger/Cro-Mag/Neanderthal confrontations, there simply is no need for weapons, except the protection circuitry in humans still functions, as if on autopilot.
Maybe modern humans are simply a combination of Cro-Mag and Neanderthal, and it is up to us which side dominates.
Take you pick:
Cro-Mag: War, Greed, Torture, Insanity
Neanderthal: Art, Science, Nurturing, Kindness
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Post by boomerchick on Mar 15, 2004 14:18:44 GMT -5
Athough I respect highly, the efforts of our anthropologists, the full and complete story is yet to be decifered. IMHO! Many find that the explanations for various races and traits seem quite cogent in the writings of the Urantia Book. Concerning the Cro-Magnon man, or the Blue Man as the U Book refers to them, I offer the following link, especially part 3: www.ubook.org/upapers/ubpaper080.html#P080_3_1In part 3, they mention the propensity of the Blue Man to fight amongst themselves. Excerpt from Part 5: While the blue man had been absorbed in the north and eventually succumbed to the white cavalry raiders who penetrated the south, the advancing tribes of the mixed white race met with stubborn and protracted resistance from the Cro-Magnons, but superior intelligence and ever-augmenting biologic reserves enabled them to wipe the older race out of existence. 80:5.4 The decisive struggles between the white man and the blue man were fought out in the valley of the Somme. Here, the flower of the blue race bitterly contested the southward-moving Andites, and for over five hundred years these Cro-Magnoids successfully defended their territories before succumbing to the superior military strategy of the white invaders. Thor, the victorious commander of the armies of the north in the final battle of the Somme, became the hero of the northern white tribes and later on was revered as a god by some of them. 80:5.5 The strongholds of the blue man which persisted longest were in southern France, but the last great military resistance was overcome along the Somme. The later conquest progressed by commercial penetration, population pressure along the rivers, and by continued intermarriage with the superiors, coupled with the ruthless extermination of the inferiors. 80:5.6 When the tribal council of the Andite elders had adjudged an inferior captive to be unfit, he was, by elaborate ceremony, committed to the shaman priests, who escorted him to the river and administered the rites of initiation to the "happy hunting grounds" -- lethal submergence. In this way the white invaders of Europe exterminated all peoples encountered who were not quickly absorbed into their own ranks, and thus did the blue man come to an end -- and quickly. 80:5.7 The Cro-Magnoid blue man constituted the biologic foundation for the modern European races, but they have survived only as absorbed by the later and virile conquerors of their homelands. The blue strain contributed many sturdy traits and much physical vigor to the white races of Europe, but the humor and imagination of the blended European peoples were derived from the Andites. This Andite-blue union, resulting in the northern white races, produced an immediate lapse of Andite civilization, a retardation of a transient nature. Eventually, the latent superiority of these northern barbarians manifested itself and culminated in present-day European civilization. 80:5.8 By 5000 B.C. the evolving white races were dominant throughout all of northern Europe, including northern Germany, northern France, and the British Isles. Central Europe was for some time controlled by the blue man and the round-headed Andonites. The latter were mainly situated in the Danube valley and were never entirely displaced by the Andites. ____________ If you have time, you might peruse the various papers regarding the origin of the races and their various migration patterns. Very interesting! www.ubook.org/upapers/toc_p3.htmlIn the times of early man, the fighting instinct is obviously valued for purposes of survival in terms of hunting as well as survival in terms of "survival of the fittest." But now, in this time of human evolution, it is time to lay down weapons, which not only will kill the best of the race, but will destroy our planet and all living things. We have come to the pinnacle of our animal instincts as serving us in any way. It is time for our mind and spirit to control our base animal instincts.
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Post by boomerchick on Mar 15, 2004 14:25:56 GMT -5
I find this excerpt about the Neanderthals also interesting. And might I add that as anthropologists continue to unearth and find evidence of ancient humans, the U Book will either be confirmed or found to be untrue. So far, nothing has opposed the writings.
4. THE NEANDERTHAL RACES 64:4.1 The Neanderthalers were excellent fighters, and they traveled extensively. They gradually spread from the highland centers in northwest India to France on the west, China on the east, and even down into northern Africa. They dominated the world for almost half a million years until the times of the migration of the evolutionary races of color.
64:4.2 800,000 years ago game was abundant; many species of deer, as well as elephants and hippopotamuses, roamed over Europe. Cattle were plentiful; horses and wolves were everywhere. The Neanderthalers were great hunters, and the tribes in France were the first to adopt the practice of giving the most successful hunters the choice of women for wives. 64:4.3 The reindeer was highly useful to these Neanderthal peoples, serving as food, clothing, and for tools, since they made various uses of the horns and bones. They had little culture, but they greatly improved the work in flint until it almost reached the levels of the days of Andon. Large flints attached to wooden handles came back into use and served as axes and picks.
64:4.4 750,000 years ago the fourth ice sheet was well on its way south. With their improved implements the Neanderthalers made holes in the ice covering the northern rivers and thus were able to spear the fish which came up to these vents. Ever these tribes retreated before the advancing ice, which at this time made its most extensive invasion of Europe. 64:4.5 In these times the Siberian glacier was making its southernmost march, compelling early man to move southward, back toward the lands of his origin. But the human species had so differentiated that the danger of further mingling with its nonprogressive simian relatives was greatly lessened.
64:4.6 700,000 years ago the fourth glacier, the greatest of all in Europe, was in recession; men and animals were returning north. The climate was cool and moist, and primitive man again thrived in Europe and western Asia. Gradually the forests spread north over land which had been so recently covered by the glacier. 64:4.7 Mammalian life had been little changed by the great glacier. These animals persisted in that narrow belt of land lying between the ice and the Alps and, upon the retreat of the glacier, again rapidly spread out over all Europe. There arrived from Africa, over the Sicilian land bridge, straight-tusked elephants, broad-nosed rhinoceroses, hyenas, and African lions, and these new animals virtually exterminated the saber-toothed tigers and the hippopotamuses.
64:4.8 650,000 years ago witnessed the continuation of the mild climate. By the middle of the interglacial period it had become so warm that the Alps were almost denuded of ice and snow.
64:4.9 600,000 years ago the ice had reached its then northernmost point of retreat and, after a pause of a few thousand years, started south again on its fifth excursion. But there was little modification of climate for fifty thousand years. Man and the animals of Europe were little changed. The slight aridity of the former period lessened, and the alpine glaciers descended far down the river valleys.
64:4.10 550,000 years ago the advancing glacier again pushed man and the animals south. But this time man had plenty of room in the wide belt of land stretching northeast into Asia and lying between the ice sheet and the then greatly expanded Black Sea extension of the Mediterranean. 64:4.11 These times of the fourth and fifth glaciers witnessed the further spread of the crude culture of the Neanderthal races. But there was so little progress that it truly appeared as though the attempt to produce a new and modified type of intelligent life on Urantia was about to fail. For almost a quarter of a million years these primitive peoples drifted on, hunting and fighting, by spells improving in certain directions, but, on the whole, steadily retrogressing as compared with their superior Andonic ancestors.
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Post by boomerchick on Mar 15, 2004 14:32:45 GMT -5
Continuing above excerpt: During these spiritually dark ages the culture of superstitious mankind reached its lowest levels. The Neanderthalers really had no religion beyond a shameful superstition. They were deathly afraid of clouds, more especially of mists and fogs. A primitive religion of the fear of natural forces gradually developed, while animal worship declined as improvement in tools, with abundance of game, enabled these people to live with lessened anxiety about food; the sex rewards of the chase tended greatly to improve hunting skill. This new religion of fear led to attempts to placate the invisible forces behind these natural elements and culminated, later on, in the sacrificing of humans to appease these invisible and unknown physical forces. And this terrible practice of human sacrifice has been perpetuated by the more backward peoples of Urantia right on down to the twentieth century. 64:4.13 These early Neanderthalers could hardly be called sun worshipers. They rather lived in fear of the dark; they had a mortal dread of nightfall. As long as the moon shone a little, they managed to get along, but in the dark of the moon they grew panicky and began the sacrifice of their best specimens of manhood and womanhood in an effort to induce the moon again to shine. The sun, they early learned, would regularly return, but the moon they conjectured only returned because they sacrificed their fellow tribesmen. As the race advanced, the object and purpose of sacrifice progressively changed, but the offering of human sacrifice as a part of religious ceremonial long persisted. From Part 4 of the following link: www.ubook.org/upapers/ubpaper064.html#P064_4_1It's tempting to simplify our present state of genetics and propensities, as a race, but the true story of our evolution is far more complicated than most of us realize. And the U Book may not offer all the answers, either!
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Post by boomerchick on Mar 15, 2004 23:28:41 GMT -5
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Post by boomerchick on Mar 16, 2004 15:08:52 GMT -5
The Army's new Smar Truck lll concept, designed for America's homeland security, or for use in a war zone, sits outside Cobo Center March 6, 2004 before being put on display for it's March 8 unveilling at the Society of Automotive Engineers 2004 World Congress. Built in partnership with International Truck and Engine Corporation, the vehicle showcases the latest in armor protection, and detection and deterrent capabilities. Smar Truck lll is equipped with a weapons station module featuring a remote controlled .50-caliber machine gun which rises from the back of the vehicle and has sniper-detection directional sound capabilities. REUTERS/HO/Rebecca Cook www.rense.com/general50/hom.htm_______________ Wasn't Hummer enough? How about tanks? Geeze! The NWO is certainly gearing up!
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