i keep waking up at night. which generally means im unsettled about something. i can think of a few prospects. its funny how its hard to fall back asleep in the middle of the night, but as soon as morning light breaks you feel like you could sleep for days. ive heard it said that this is linked back to early human instincts - that in the early days, man lived with an underlying sense of alarm at night since most large predators tended to be nocturnal. morning light and songbirds sounded the beginning of day and the slumber of stalking predators. so there is just some sense of comfort with dawn.
i really like hearing about connections to past instincts. anyone know others? i think evolutionary traits as discussed in this radiolab (search for sperm - yeah i know.) is really interesting. specifically about the developments of men and women.
how long do you think cavemen/women's hair was? did they ever cut it?
-sorry for the repeat danb and seye
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oh yeah brother!
oh yeah brother!
Ooooo, I'm kind of reading about similar things. Just last night I read a theory relating "original sin" to a simple evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest need, thus rendering such selfish acts as "innocent" until moral intelligence entered the picture.
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=1205
Very interesting.
that makes a lot of sense. makes you think a lot about the idea of sin and moral intelligence - sort of the idea of inately good vs bad vs blank slate. makes the idea of 'sin' seem a little more manufactured?
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