Cautious precaution

Well, I really hoped no one read my first Blog attempt. But from response from my friends, it seemed there was an unhealthy interest in my matters. I had hoped that more than 1 week of waiting would put them off my ever elusive "self exposé". Really don't like it when people think my blog was funny or dark or even interesting. What I want was just somewhere for me to write down my innermost thoughts without people ever finding out what I thought or felt. But then again idiosyncrasy seems to be on the menu of the day.

What does it mean to be human?

Question: What does it mean to be human, more specifically, what makes us tick?

Answer: Who the fuck cares? But hey I'm just gonna share it anyways. Here's some insight from a guy who watched too much TV and read too much concerning issues like these.

Insight

First things first. What does it mean to be human? There has been so many definitions around the world regarding what it is to be human. Be it to have emotions, to control emotions, human instinct, human behaviour, psychology, etc, etc. The list is endless and also very contradictory.

One side tries to explain that humans are just another species of animals, where our habits emulate much of the animal kingdom. Sayings such as being the "Alpha Wolf" who is the starter of a trend or visionary of an empire, taking the role of the lesser known "Beta Wolf" who maintains and upkeeps a dynasty of the trend or empire are just inferences to our much more animalistic side. Yet though accurate in most accounts, this explaination of humans doesn't quite satisfy the majority of the educated. People who feel they are higher up in society always come up with reasons or explainations on how they are better than the lower echelons of society and why they should continue staying as the elite of society.

So thus comes the myriad of reasons why humans are humans. From the definitions come emotions which built a whole system upon humans grade themselves. Things such as Love, Hate, Fear, Anger led to Honour, Valor, Justic, Betrayal, Evil, Good, Mercy and the list continues. So to be human, to me, it all boils down to the word humanity. Yes a word derived from human is what I believe in. Humanity would be the cumulation of all I've said above and others that would be said in the future. Our humanity includes all our triumphs and failures, for To err is human, that is the basis of all humankind.

Women ruled over men?

Within the last week, I've watched much documentaries, news broadcasts, soap operas, mtv videos, business secrets. And also read a Diablo novel, played couple of MMORPGs and standard single player computer games. Not to mention find out my uncle got into a car accident and he's currently in hospital.

Among one of the more interesting documentaries, was one that tried to explain stonehedge and other monolithtic monuments of similar origins. In the documentary, they tried explaining that in the past where at the end of the ice age, humans weren't humans yet. But rather they were a species called homo erectus ("Guys out there please don't make this into another sex joke, we have enough already")

The Ice Age

The homo erectus were one of the survivors of the ice age, during the ice age humans were living much like elephants. Yes you heard me elephants, if you don't know how elephant communities were like here's a short introduction. Elephants live in an all female society, where the oldest female in the herd would be the "Matriarch" the only males in the herd would be young males who has not reached maturity. Then when the males reach maturity, they are kicked out by the herd and only allowed back during the mating period. But, humans during the ice age weren't all female societies but rather they were ruled by the females in the tribe.

Why, now it gets alittle more interesting, you see, during the ice age, there weren't any plants readily available for humans to eat. Thus humans resorted to hunting huge animals such as mammoths for their survival. Yes you heard me right, humans were living on a pure animal diet. Don't look surprised, people WON'T die because they have an all meat diet, you don't see killer whales eating seaweed now do you or even cheetahs grazing for that matter. So as humans needed to hunt, the males were the physically stronger of the two sexes and so he's more adept and more likely to be out hunting while the women stay at the tribe. Now wouldn't you be BORED if you had to stay back and wait hours upon hours for food? So thus the role of culture, child bearing, society had fallen to the hands of the women. The women would be like Queens and could influence important decisions within a tribe.

With all that done and said, what in the world would that be connected with the stonehedge and other monolithtic monuments? There's more you gotta know before the picture came clear. Firstly you already know that humans were dominated by women and men had to go out hunting. What you might not know would be that humans had to hunt at night. Yes, predators almost always hunt at night so that their prey is sleepy and easier to capture. Thus because humans back in the ice age were nocturnal animals, ("All you night owls out there rejoice! It's primal human instinct to stay up at night.")

Religions began forming around the moon. The moon would be considered very important to the humans as it determined whether or not they would have enough light to hunt. Thus many rituals formed around full moons and moonless nights. The moon also determined the female menstrual cycle and thus many women laid claim upon being Priestesses and Leaders to their people. All the male hunters would seek the counsel of their female leader before attempting a hunting expedition. There's also an issue of when there's not enough moon light to conduct hunts, then the females would allow mating within the tribe. ("Kinky huh? hahaha...")

Religion

So now you know there's many religions which are considered "PAGAN" now ("Pagan meaning taboo or forbidden") which originated from human culture way back to the period of the Ice Age. Why are these pagan worships considered taboo now? Well mainly because with several rituals, it's customary to have animalistic orgies and extreme cases sacrifices of people to be made.("DO NOT ASK ME HOW I GET SOME OF THE INFORMATION I DO.") Thus people in the Ice Age flourished and the moon became a tool for women to hold power over men.

Then came the end of the Ice Age. The big animals of the age slowly disappeared and humans had nothing to eat. Eventually people found out about growing food. ("This was thru thousands of years of trial and error") And thus they had to be awake in the day instead of the night, this causes much fear in the humans of the Ice Age. One of the worries would be the loss of their culture which might have existed for thousands of years. Eventually opposing religions of people worshipping the sun and people worshipping the moon came to a cresendo. Society was slowly changing from a female dominant to a male dominant. Thus through this period of animosity and strive, came the scholars of the time. ("Yes there were smart people back in the past, do not think all our ancestors were retards")

Do not be surprised as there was knowledge back then which are still used today. Anyways these scholars would be the decendants of the "Priestesses" back during the time of the Ice Age. They knew the cycles of the moon and thru time, they also knew the cycle of the sun. During the early times after the Ice Age, the "Priests" knew that if they could get the support of BOTH the Moon worshippers and the Sun worshippers, they would be more powerful than just garnering the support of one.

Thus the idea of uniting the human race was conceived to show both sun and moon worshippers that they "Controlled" both the Sun and the Moon. The idea of Stone Hedge was formed. Stone Hedge had a center hole when you look thru it from the "Viewing stone" You'd see that it's split into 2 "Windows" These two windows were one on top of the other. The higher window would catch the moon as it decends on a monthly cycle and the sun would be caught in the bottom window in every 18.6 years. Thus the "Priests" would show the public that during that time, the sun and the moon were one and the same and they ruled the humans with knowledge of the sun and the moon.

So what did I learn in the end?

Thus lesson learnt, what is happening today through out the world with people having sleeping disorders is not a phenomenon but rather a repeat of history. We sometimes find a calling deep into our souls from a distant and forgotten past. Where night was day and day was night. Where women ruled and men worked. Perhaps those legends of Amazons weren't so unbelievable after all huh?

Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow