And you get to fly in your Foundation's aircraft, be chauffeured about in your Foundation's limo, you get to direct funds to friends' pet projects, to hire relatives with cushy salaries, to avoid taxes on almost a billion dollars that will remain largely under your influence, to expense fine dining and gifts, you get to insert meddlesome NGO's into foreign lands (furthering your ties with clandestine government agencies), you get to influence politicians and voters, you get to serve on "advisory committees" and write legislation, you get to implement sweeping changes like "Common Core Curriculum" that will effect almost everybody (without their input).... I'm sure I didn't list all the perks!
US Government has a history of... infected people with diseases, exposed them to radiation, dosed them with illegal drugs and exposed them to chemical weapons. Very frequently without the participants knowledge or consent.... For all we know they aren't really gathering any DNA or drug data at all...
I hadn't considered that they might have actually been swabbing an infectious agent onto cheeks! These days almost anything could happen.
... if it is just an anonymous sample, why not? From a scientific point of view...
Yeah! Let's conduct all science this way! Just think of the infinite experimentation possibilities attainable by stopping random vehicles. Why not? It's just science.
The autonomous car deftly picks up the cat via robotic arm extension without even needing to slow down, reconfigures the route plan to stop by the nearest animal shelter, and automatically drops cat in the shelter's autonomous stray animal receptor.
200000000 Powerpoint presentations will be taken down by DMCA takedown notice, 150000000 more will be denigrated for not coming through the established channels, not being peer reviewed, or for being produced by some wingnut conspiracy theorist. 100000000 more will be silenced by threat of lawsuits from the chemical industry and other interested parties.
Yes, I know those numbers don't add up, but hey, that's how it works!
You remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens is generally acknowledged to come on the scene around 200k years ago, and the first records of polytheism are about 4,500 years old.
Equally true is the fact that Sapiens sapiens didn't arrive "out of the blue", but is a subspecies of Homo sapiens, specifically a direct descendant of Homo habilis, and as such would have merely continued and developed lines of activity and habits already under development. You will note at this time that I said "polytheism's probable 500,000+ year reign" - which is not necessarily Homo sapiens sapiens' reign.
Regarding the age of the written record of polytheism, 4500 years reflects the age of written records rather than the age of polytheism. It's a no-brainer that polytheism would predate records of itself. But by how far?
I could just point to the evidence of ritual at Boxgrove in West Sussex, England, where tools were made for some purpose other than their ostensible function, for that would take us to 500k bce (or thereabouts). Do you doubt mystical Boxgrovers were polytheist? It is "...considered the earliest formal religion. Polytheism goes back so far into antiquity, with origins in more than one region of the world, that it is not possible to establish just where and when it was really founded." (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_polytheism_begin). Instead I'd have you consider that the dawn of technology is dated at 2.6 million years ago and that control of fire goes back 800k years (http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-evolution-timeline-interactive). There was quite obviously some kind of thinking going on for one heck of a long time. Primitive, though conscious, thoughts were happening. Animist mystical thought, and it's natural offspring, polytheistic thought would had to have developed during this period.
The vast majority of ancient civilizations that led to the development of modern society were polytheistic
Yes. And then when modern civilization arose so did monotheism. Contemporaneously. Sadly, the medieval period is a period of modern civilization.
What the heck does that mean? Ancient polytheistic societies were experts at exiling or executing people who didn't conform to some expected social norms.
In earlier times (perhaps earlier than you refer to), people were not as expendable. In order to ensure survival of the group as a whole, only pretty extreme nonconformity could merit such punishment.
I beg to differ.
Polytheism in Plato's time most certainly was far more systematized than it would have been, say even 10,000 years prior. For most of its existence, and we're talking a really long time, polytheism would appear more like simple animist reverence towards all one didn't know. The further back in time you go, the fewer social constraints would be placed on individual behavior. Social constraints need to be invented, one by one. Prior to that, individual differences would be much easier to accept, since a person would be moved to action by "spirits" bigger than him/herself. Then there's the fact that in small groups that person was also likely to be your relative.
Early Christians ran into a polytheistic society near the very end of polytheism's probable 500,000+ year reign. By the time Christians were running into it, political expediency had already stiffened polytheist society into something much more rigid than it had been over most of its course.
Monotheism arose contemporaneously with modern civilization as a control framework for large societies. Monotheism encourages homogenous culture, thus discouraging creativity. Prior to that, polytheism, which implicitly implies multiplicity and diversity in all things, was the culture's guide. In a polytheistic culture every man can have his own muse without ridicule, fear or ostracism.
Of course I do realize that there are Academic Journals within and without academia that have and will continue to publish "problematic" articles. But still...
Perhaps Ivorylist would be more appropriate. After all we're really talking about protecting the "Ivory tower."
Note from Wikipedia: An ivory tower may also be an entity of "reason, rationality and rigid structures [that] colonizes the world of lived experience," as explained by Kirsten J. Broadfoot in an article about the possibilities of postcolonial organizational communication. This imagined academic community creates an essence of exclusivity and superiority. Broadfoot explains this as a group that “functions like an exclusive club whose membership is tightly controlled by what might be called a ‘dominant frame.’” In an academic sense, this leads to an “overwhelming and disproportionate dominance” of the United States and the Western world. The ivory tower can be dangerous in its inherent privatization of knowledge and intellect. Academics who are seeking “legitimacy for their narratives from the heart end up echoing the sanitized tone of the Master Narrative.”
I was able to verify this whole climate change issue right here on my own property. At first I had thermometers all over my property, but it just didn't seem warm enough. After I removed all the thermometers except for the ones near the clothes dryer vent and chimney I saw what all the fuss was about!
Let's just save some time and ban everything small! That should include insect size surveillance drones, GPS dots, nano anything, and the miniature hearts of the 1%.
Slashdot Mirror
...he shuts the fuck up briefly, and then resumes pushing the same old theories...
Oh, he'll come a"round" eventually!
Uhm, haven't you heard? Size doesn't matter.
And you get to fly in your Foundation's aircraft, be chauffeured about in your Foundation's limo, you get to direct funds to friends' pet projects, to hire relatives with cushy salaries, to avoid taxes on almost a billion dollars that will remain largely under your influence, to expense fine dining and gifts, you get to insert meddlesome NGO's into foreign lands (furthering your ties with clandestine government agencies), you get to influence politicians and voters, you get to serve on "advisory committees" and write legislation, you get to implement sweeping changes like "Common Core Curriculum" that will effect almost everybody (without their input) .... I'm sure I didn't list all the perks!
"Stinky"? Will that do?
US Government has a history of ... infected people with diseases, exposed them to radiation, dosed them with illegal drugs and exposed them to chemical weapons. Very frequently without the participants knowledge or consent.... For all we know they aren't really gathering any DNA or drug data at all...
I hadn't considered that they might have actually been swabbing an infectious agent onto cheeks! These days almost anything could happen.
... if it is just an anonymous sample, why not? From a scientific point of view...
Yeah! Let's conduct all science this way! Just think of the infinite experimentation possibilities attainable by stopping random vehicles. Why not? It's just science.
I, for one, would like someone to please tell me when it's time to say "Goodbye" to our new overlords!
In Soviet Russia, small animal drive paper bag!
The autonomous car deftly picks up the cat via robotic arm extension without even needing to slow down, reconfigures the route plan to stop by the nearest animal shelter, and automatically drops cat in the shelter's autonomous stray animal receptor.
That's an awful lot of "Hello World"!
That's an error in the "Library of Congresses".
400000000 PPTs won't make a difference!
200000000 Powerpoint presentations will be taken down by DMCA takedown notice, 150000000 more will be denigrated for not coming through the established channels, not being peer reviewed, or for being produced by some wingnut conspiracy theorist. 100000000 more will be silenced by threat of lawsuits from the chemical industry and other interested parties.
Yes, I know those numbers don't add up, but hey, that's how it works!
At least chimps can still comment on /.
You remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens is generally acknowledged to come on the scene around 200k years ago, and the first records of polytheism are about 4,500 years old.
Equally true is the fact that Sapiens sapiens didn't arrive "out of the blue", but is a subspecies of Homo sapiens, specifically a direct descendant of Homo habilis, and as such would have merely continued and developed lines of activity and habits already under development. You will note at this time that I said "polytheism's probable 500,000+ year reign" - which is not necessarily Homo sapiens sapiens' reign.
Regarding the age of the written record of polytheism, 4500 years reflects the age of written records rather than the age of polytheism. It's a no-brainer that polytheism would predate records of itself. But by how far?
I could just point to the evidence of ritual at Boxgrove in West Sussex, England, where tools were made for some purpose other than their ostensible function, for that would take us to 500k bce (or thereabouts). Do you doubt mystical Boxgrovers were polytheist? It is "...considered the earliest formal religion. Polytheism goes back so far into antiquity, with origins in more than one region of the world, that it is not possible to establish just where and when it was really founded." (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_polytheism_begin). Instead I'd have you consider that the dawn of technology is dated at 2.6 million years ago and that control of fire goes back 800k years (http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-evolution-timeline-interactive). There was quite obviously some kind of thinking going on for one heck of a long time. Primitive, though conscious, thoughts were happening. Animist mystical thought, and it's natural offspring, polytheistic thought would had to have developed during this period.
The vast majority of ancient civilizations that led to the development of modern society were polytheistic
Yes. And then when modern civilization arose so did monotheism. Contemporaneously. Sadly, the medieval period is a period of modern civilization.
What the heck does that mean? Ancient polytheistic societies were experts at exiling or executing people who didn't conform to some expected social norms.
In earlier times (perhaps earlier than you refer to), people were not as expendable. In order to ensure survival of the group as a whole, only pretty extreme nonconformity could merit such punishment.
I beg to differ. Polytheism in Plato's time most certainly was far more systematized than it would have been, say even 10,000 years prior. For most of its existence, and we're talking a really long time, polytheism would appear more like simple animist reverence towards all one didn't know. The further back in time you go, the fewer social constraints would be placed on individual behavior. Social constraints need to be invented, one by one. Prior to that, individual differences would be much easier to accept, since a person would be moved to action by "spirits" bigger than him/herself. Then there's the fact that in small groups that person was also likely to be your relative.
Early Christians ran into a polytheistic society near the very end of polytheism's probable 500,000+ year reign. By the time Christians were running into it, political expediency had already stiffened polytheist society into something much more rigid than it had been over most of its course.
Monotheism arose contemporaneously with modern civilization as a control framework for large societies. Monotheism encourages homogenous culture, thus discouraging creativity. Prior to that, polytheism, which implicitly implies multiplicity and diversity in all things, was the culture's guide. In a polytheistic culture every man can have his own muse without ridicule, fear or ostracism.
Of course I do realize that there are Academic Journals within and without academia that have and will continue to publish "problematic" articles. But still...
... and 99% of NYC crime is committed by someone who's had a "super-sized" soda! Thank God the Mayor is on top of things.
I was able to verify this whole climate change issue right here on my own property. At first I had thermometers all over my property, but it just didn't seem warm enough. After I removed all the thermometers except for the ones near the clothes dryer vent and chimney I saw what all the fuss was about!
We really don't know what it is worth until it sells on eBay!
Hey! Once I get my patent covering the ability to process patents processed it'll be game over for all this stupidity!
Let's just save some time and ban everything small! That should include insect size surveillance drones, GPS dots, nano anything, and the miniature hearts of the 1%.