Posted by KRICO on March 23, 2001 at 10:59:04:
In Reply to: and We have stole more than that. posted by DOCTORGOOD on March 22, 2001 at 23:52:02:
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Here's a quote from the late, great "worldlian" Richard Buckminster Fuller: "S.C. Northrop of Yale writes in his book "The Meeting of East And West" of the effects of the eighteenth century impingement of the cosmological, highly formalized, "Christian" dogma of (European) Spanish invaders upon the people of Mexico, at the midpoint of the North and South (American) continents, to which vast number of humans already had come, from Asia across the Pacific and from the Pacific islands, during untold numbers of earlier millenniums. These Pacific basin people whom the Spanish invaders found in Mexico showed a crossbred physiognomy embracing every physical feature and skin color known anywhere around the Earth. They were so crossbred that they could no longer be spontaneously differentiated into separate "color" races. This crossbreeding is most advanced in both Mexico and India today, but now embraces all the European features as well. Every variety of angular pattern variation in physiognomy is found in both countries in every skin color and every shade from intensely dark to intensely light. Hair ranges through every known variety, between straight to tight curly, in every hue from black to platinum blonde, and all varities of hair adorn all varieties of skin color in all degrees of shading from dark to light, which in turn adorn all varieties of facial features and head shapes, wherefore few Mexican individuals can be identified as being of any hybrid race. They are simply worldians. When the Spanish Europeans brought their official religion of Christianity in its most arbitrarily dogmatic form of the Father, Son, Virgen Mary, and the saints to Mexico's worldians, the latter seemingly accepted that latinized catholicism but went on in swift course, impelled by the momentum of their earlier conditioned reflexes to worship only the Virgen Mary, who was obviously not the same lady as that honored by the pope but was indeed their age-old fertility goddess with a new name - Guadalupe." BTW, even though I am not Catholic, I bought my first "Virgin de Guadalupe" candle ($1.19) at Walgreen's the other day, so I can conserve on energy during California's so-called electrical power crisis. It casts a very pretty light and allows me to see my computer keyboard clearly at night...Ancient technology meets new... For those of you so inclined, may I recommend two books and one map. The books will, guaranteed, irrevocably change your world view forever, about human beings, technological innovation, and The books: "Critical Path" by R. Buckminster Fuller A awe-inspiring, paradigm-shattering, evolutionary history of human beings and technological innovation, pursuing a rich combination of a variety of intellectual streams leading into an inexorable Mississippi sweeping us towards a future broadly hinted at, but as yet unknown. I've been reading this book, off and on, for 20 years and every reading offers new insight. Bucky be great! "Guns, Germs and Steel" (The Fates of Human Societies) by Jared Diamond(UCLA Prof) I quote Paul(Stanford Univ.)Ehrlich's jacket blurb: And finally, the US Geological survey's great "Defense Dept. Map of the World" showing all the land and water masses, in illusory 3D, color, shipping routes, elevations, temperature zones, the works... A great mercator projection flat map of the world...the best I've ever seen.(3 x 4 feet). Your tax dollars at work. KRICO
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