Finished the book. in A small but passable life.

After I posted the last entry I realized that I’d forgotten about Tuesday, when the youngsters took me out to eat for my birthday at our favorite hometown barbeque place. Delicious.

I finished the book- “Magicians of the Gods” by Graham Hancock. An interesting read for sure.

He has an alternate theory concerning the deep time of human history. Current mainstream archeology has put forth a fairly simple timeline. Anatomically modern humans date to at least 195,00 years ago. And then for the next 183,000 years these homo sapiens wandered around as hunter gatherers. Then during the Younger Dryas epoch from 12,800 to 11,600 BCE a cold snap wiped out most humans and forced the remaining population through a “population bottleneck” where we almost went extinct. After that the remaining population, after just a few centuries, in at least five different locations on the planet, at about the same time, invented agriculture, animal husbandry and civilization. BOOM! Just like that. Just that quick. That’s the story and mainstream science is sticking with it.

So, umm . . . there is another theory. And it does sound plausible, especially taking into consideration the human mental flaw of really not understanding deep time. There are physical artifacts that do not fit into the mainstream theory.

I’ve always thought that it was aliens that landed and showed off a few civilizing skills to the homo sapiens natives and then things kind of went sideways because the concept of greed overwhelmed the concept of altruism in the human brain and the aliens really hadn’t thought that possible, because really, what purpose does greed really fulfill? It is really not even logical, as a survival strategy. That is my theory.

But Hancock’s theory is that there was an “ancient civilization” established before the Younger Dryas and that during that epoch emissaries were sent to establish pockets of civilization to preserve the advances that had already occurred.

His main point is that hunter gatherers would not be building or carving huge megaliths (that date back to hunter gatherer times) because they would be too busy hunting and gathering. Duh. Makes sense to me.

Daughter had already read to me an article http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/adam-s-calendar-oldest-megalithic-site-world-003160 awhile back that Hancock doesn’t even mention. But he does mention this http://sciencenordic.com/world%E2%80%99s-oldest-engravings-discovered-java

So yeah, there are questions that may never be answered. I’m now wondering if maybe those “ancient ancestors” were influenced by aliens. BOOM!

And still the question of greed remains.

I just seen a news blip reporting that Bill Gates is now worth $90 billion. I’m thinking that one billion ( $1,000,000,000 ) would be more than enough? Surely that amount would establish a family legacy? What would happen if he picked 89 charities and gave them each one billion dollars? Of course it would be one billion in stock that they could use for loan collateral. But yeah, $89 billion in loans with nothing for collateral except paper wouldn’t fly and would most likely expose the banking system as the fraud that it really is.

I digress.

It may be cool enough tomorrow for Liam Dog and I to get out for a walk. I need to return the book and I need to go to the credit union to activate my new debit card. Daughter tried to do it on the phone but the automated system won’t work if you are phone numberless which I’ve been for years now.

I’ve stopped checking as often on Mom’s accounts. I was checking often and even filling out the check register. But after filling up an entire register in just five months or so I’m bored with it. I may check every once in awhile online but I’m done with the register scribbling. The last time I talked to her she’d said that she’d paid for something with the one credit card she still has and then wrote a check to pay the credit card. Whatever. Like I’ve said before, it is her money.

So yeah, it is 1:19pm. Coffee is drank. Dishes need to be done. Gotta close the laptop!