Later I discovered that lions will indeed scavenge a fresh body. It goes against all our ideas of nobility but to the lion it is probably just like, oh look, an open bag of Fritos.
What I said was that at first I thought that lions didn't scavenge, but later learned that they did, and notice that the Fritos are not in the fridge. Many of the smartest people in the world would say that that is a perfect.sentence.
So my little world has come a long way since the Edenic days of those protozoa basking in the sun on the surface of warm seas. Mother Nature had been quite busy inventing lungs and hooves and claws, and maybe at some point she decided that those little apes are pretty cute especially when they walk on two legs, and how well they seem to manipulate things with those cool new opposable thumbs, what if she made them smart too?
Well that went gangbusters, and here he is making tools oh and now he has language. And right about then God enters the scene. At first He is just in charge of receiving sacrifices and making harvests go well, but folks get to talking about Him and have different ideas of His nature, At first He is just doing favors for folks who know what spells to cast. But then, and I think the Jews are the first with this, not only does He do favors, He wants us to be nice, to be good to each other,
See I think we got this whole being nice thing from the fact that we are social animals and beyond that it takes a long time for us to raise our younguns at great cost to the parents and we have to have the right genes to keep the family together, so we have this idea of good, so why not impute that to God? There, it sits well on Him. And maybe getting a little full of Himself, He decides to put the rules down in black and white, ten of them. And the sixth of them (depending on who is doing the numbering), is Thou shalt not kill.
Well not exactly it is more of the form Thou shalt not murder, and murder, you know, that is kind of fungible. Actually quite a bit of interesting stuff on the wiki Ten Commandments page, but I fear it is off the subject for the nonce.
The part of this whole discussion that interests Beagles, and I am happy that anything I say interests anybody, is why does the Indian put down tobacco as sort of a sacrifice to the Great Spirit after killing an animal? One imagines that maybe ten thousand years previously the Indian's counterparts on the other side of the globe were doing something similar, but we don't know that much anymore about our pagan days because the Christians went to great effort to wipe that out,.
Speaking of killing what about firing the Secretary of the Navy because he didn't want to excuse Gallagher the way Trump wanted him to? Isn't this wrong in so many ways?
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