Half of our lives are spent trying to find something to do, either at home or work it seems to be a relentless pursuit of something to occupy our time, and yet we still find each day to short for all the things we need to do. Wasting time drags and seems to last forever but when you are busy time flies by, the nice thing is, the future only comes one day at a time.
Actually a subject of discussion and debate for centuries, science, religion and philosophers have all questioned when and how personhood begins, what is the precise time and what is the nature of the occurrence. It has never been universally agreed upon when a human is actually recognized as a person.
The headline would make you think of the title to a movie or a novel, but we are talking about humans and our behaviors or our characteristics which determine our behaviors. Thinking, feeling, acting, caring, strange, humble are all part of our ways of life which we have naturally and are independent of cultural influences, or are they?
Decades ago when heart attacks were 100% fatal, people held the view that the heart (and similarly, the brain) were the domain of only God, and that trying to perform surgery on either organ was tantamount to trying to play God.
In an effort to understand humanity and all it's foolishness we attempt to understand the minds of humans and there constant effort to exist in a world of unfavorable circumstances. This behavior is not unusual for serious people of wisdom, but competing on equal terms with the feeble minded requires nonsensical wisdom.
"Once-Upon-a-Time in a World of Nowhere-In-Particular” begins our story.
Storytelling predates writing, going back hundreds of thousands of years, verbally describing something combined with gestures and expressions. Eventually moving to cave drawings, carved and scratched wood pieces as well as, ivory and other bones where used. Today it's mass media through the internet, radio and television.
Because about 60,000 years ago Early Humans interbred with Neanderthals. Scientist have compared the genomes of the two species and have determined that most Europeans and Asians have between 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA.
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