"It could have been..."

                                  propane cooker exploded...a new hot water heater was found

been reading archeology magazine and trying to determine if the human species is capable of change...upon listening to tony bell Ph.D. senior scientist at redwood institute on the collection of interviews on the DVD collection "Consciousness" (2003) he mentions this..."Death appears to be some sort of biologically optimal process..."we need not get carried away by some kind of messianic millennial future ideal"..."but be open to the notion that dramatic phase transitions do occur"..."old thought systems do get swept away"..."plenty of examples of conceptional shifts"..."changed peoples world view in the past"..."what happens when systems become unstable and new patterns have to come in to fill in the gap?"...

also read that the Wonderwerk Cave in the Kalahari desert is the oldest hominid cave dwelling yet found and there is evidence of "deliberate" use of fire from about a million years ago...soooo....can so called modern humans switch to "sustainable" resources like real quick? 

i recently wrote that "white settlers" gunned their way to the pacific ocean...or something to that effect...but according to an article in archeology magazine in 1634 AD St. Marys fort was built in Maryland on land PURCHASED from the Yaocomaco people...it is a sadly common occurrence to repeat ideas about so and so a person or group being completely rotten...even white settlers had some attributes that were not bad...

"It could have been some kind of social or ideological crisis, the abandonment of a shared belief system that people gave up on because it didn't work for them anymore." Kenneth Sassaman, University of Florida archeologist on the Mound building archaic Culture in the southeast USA which disappeared 3200 years ago....(I have visited Poverty Point mound site in Louisiana and though it is never brought up I believe that after so many years of  "dunging the soil" a place just becomes too damned stinky and people head for fresher ground...just a theory...

                                  

"I measure every Grief..."

                                 abert squirrel and the pine sticks that they chew the bark off of and eat

i found out that this lovely squirrel can be hunted and killed 365 days a year...seems like a rather harsh treatment of a squirrel that does not seem to be harming anyone or anything...i have been somewhat depressed the last few days, i have a lagging indicator i think...but my spirits are always lifted by being outside and also i tend to turn to music to uplift my spirits...i would like to recommend a tune which i really like and it is "Isn't it a Pity" a george harrison tune which is sung beautifully by Ms. Margo on the DVD "Cowboy Junkies in Liverpool" it is the second to last song i think

"By skillful I mean that you bring together your understanding of the essential nature of your mind, your knowledge of your own various, shifting moods, and insight you have developed through your practice into how to work with yourself from moment to moment. By bringing these together, you learn the art of applying whatever method is appropriate for any particular situation or problem, to transform that environment of your mind." Sogyal Rinpoche (1992) "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying"

"I measure every Grief I meet/ With narrow probing eyes-/I wonder if It weighs like Mine-/Or has an Easier size." Emily Dickenson

"I don't know what will be the most important..."

 same territory but not friends...the top is probably a Colorado chipmunk the bottom a Least chipmunk

so i would like to recommend a very good collection of educational DVD's which may set the record straight about who is going to replace who where and when.."First People" PSB (2015) 5 hours

one of the most interesting things about this information is how the current scientific information indicates that over the last several hundred thousand years the population of hominids and "archaic" humans have interacted and hybridized until the only remaining species is the Homo sapiens and there is DNA evidence that modern humans have bits of several extinct species...these DVD's show how there is hybridization of many species and the offspring are different from the parents...why these two species of chipmunk do not hybridize I am not sure...they are never together at the compost pile where they scavenge food...obviously different races of humans after a certain amount of time will reproduce until eventually the dominant "race" will not be a race at all...that is of course the humans don't extinct themselves...which is most likely in my opinion...

"I don't know what will be the most important weapon in the next war, but I know what will be the most important weapon in the war after that-...the bow and arrow." anonymous

"Everyone's quick..."

                                    probably a Least Chipmunk (Eutamias minimus)chewing on a rib bone

was listening to someone who apparently does not get out much lamenting that the immigrants are going to replace the "original" inhabitants of the USA...and not a minute too soon I say!...the "Mayflower Mafia"...those folks who have been here for 3 hundred years and no longer have much initiative or imagination and are bringing this country down down down need to be sidelined and let those persons who had enough gumption to do whatever it takes to get to this country and will do whatever job is available until something better comes along get their better life here...i have worked on a lot of jobs and never met a superintendent that would allow the quality of work to be compromised because the worker was working for less...well almost never...i think too many people is too many people whatever their country of origin and as soon as the human population is recognized to be a major component in the environmental degradation  the sooner humans can address the "reproductive biology" issues. we need much better birth control than is being used...the problem is the numbers not the nationality...

i watched the whole "Dirty Harry" series of Clint Eastwood movies...they tended to get increasingly more violent and sadistic...but as Mr. Eastwood explained in the interviews...they were not to interested in the negative aspects of that...i just looked up the reviews on one of my favorite movies and it seems it got a lot of negative reviews...but that just goes to show tastes are different..."Bronco Billy" (1980) was one of my favorites and i recommend it....

"Everyone's quick to blame the alien." Aeschylus (463 BCE)

"We only become what we are..."

                                     "...with an insatiable appetite for showgirls..."

watched a movie a few days ago which was made in 1959 and may appeal to your taste...it is "The Horrors of Spider Island" which is about a guy named Gary who is an agent for "SHOWGIRLS"...so he hires 8 "showgirls" and they fly to...i think Singapore...but the plane crashes and they end up on Spider Island which actually looks like the coast of California...but even thought the plane hits the ocean at 1000 miles an hour they all survive and make it to the island in a life raft and find a cabin stocked with food and things are going pretty good until Gary gets bit by a spider and gets a severe case of spider-face and spider hands and develops "an insatiable appetite for showgirls"...but his hairy manly chest remains pretty human and the girls all gallivant around in their underwear and when the two researchers land on the island to do research they get rescued after only a couple of showgirls being deaded...there seems to be some homo-erotic sub-plots...actually the spider is much cuter than Gary....

"We are only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us."  Jean-Paul Sarte