a strange fowl posted:

that book does a great job linking the stories to evidence of geological events. that level of respect and validation of indigenous knowledge was and is groundbreaking for a western author, unfortunately. at the same time it's a frustrating read, because he also keeps saying that humans originated in africa and migrated to australia via asia, and drawing conclusions about the maximum age of the stories from that assumption. many of these same traditions state clearly that the people didn't come from anywhere else, they evolved into humans exactly where they are. their histories go back way further than twelve thousand years, it's just that white scientists won't accept that because it would disrupt the single origin theory of human evolution.

which, in turn, comes from a flawed interpretation of the book of genesis. the text states that humans were created all over the world, presumably each in their own gardens, and then adam was made out of dust in the levant. but the assumption that every single human in the world is descended from a single pair in a single geographical location permeates science completely. it's frustrating to see how the single origin theory holds back the work of researchers like nunn.

FlapYoJacks posted:

What’s the big dead?

a strange fowl posted:

none of you deserve it!

Trabisnikof posted:

cop27 is going to be an amazing source of media to torture this thread with

a strange fowl posted:

you are all shameful and will blow away in the wind like so much dust

a strange fowl posted:

you are all shameful and will blow away in the wind like so much dust

a strange fowl posted:

you are all shameful and will blow away in the wind like so much dust

a strange fowl posted:

you are all shameful and will blow away in the wind like so much dust

a strange fowl posted:

you are all shameful and will blow away in the wind like so much dust

Trabisnikof posted:

so i looked into this a bit, and apparently its a bit better than i initially thought.
carbonplan (a pretty realistically pessimistic group) gives them a 4/5 rating
https://carbonplan.org/research/cdr-database/project?id=MSFT143

FFT posted:

it's the egyptian story of troy, imo he figured it out and that's why he never finished it

a strange fowl posted:

you are all shameful and will blow away in the wind like so much dust

take_it_slow posted:

I'm having trouble finding anything that seems relevant when I search for it

Just a Moron posted:

I like your posts strange fowl, but it probably is a little off topic for the biosphere thread and most posters probably (rightly!) have a bad taste in the mouth of theological adjacent stuff and would fairly group it in with aliens and general woo. If the UFO thread won't have you, make a new thread for religion/mysticism/transcendentalism. Personally I'd just use it to shitpost curses upon the great Satan, the wolf in sheep's clothing, godforsaken America, but there're are actually good and thoughtful posters who likely have things of value to contribute along the lines of theology/philosophy of religion/critical scriptural analysis.

Also it should have mandatory witchcraft

Mayor Dave posted:

Car Hater posted:

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust but more accurate


"From toxic soup you were made, and to it you shall return"

Mayor Dave posted:

Microplastics posted:

You're welcome to have my virus laden micropenis any time


e: n/m, misread

Jel Shaker posted:

well i’m sure any old tiny bit of crap will be dragged along by a nano plastic,
which means that soon enough we’ll all have mad cow disease just from drinking the water

Confusedslight posted:

Resignation is such a freeing feeling. It's also much easier than protesting or going vegan or some poo poo.

Struensee posted:

A colleague of mine proudly told us how she bought a plastic Christmas tree as a way to reduce her climate impact. I asked whether she was going to start taking the bicycle to work. Unfortunately, no.

Hexigrammus posted:

I would tend to agree except back in the days when I was still thinking we could solve climate change religion seemed like it might be a useful tool. Ultimately belief drives most humans and belief based on someone else's rational thought isn't that much different than belief based on someone else's anorexia-induced desert hallucinations. Most of us are not going to puzzle through these things on our own and will take the first shortcut we see.

I'd like to add mandatory hallucinatory mushrooms/sex cult with thinly veiled mushroom/penis iconography. It is good that we can now gently caress like bunnies without making more kids and sex being a pain in the arse like it was with the Cathars, although maybe that was just Catholic propaganda.


Also, I see what I did there in the first paragraph. Someone post "The wise man bowed his head and said..." thing.

Hooo boy does that have some interesting implications.

Struensee posted:

A colleague of mine proudly told us how she bought a plastic Christmas tree as a way to reduce her climate impact. I asked whether she was going to start taking the bicycle to work. Unfortunately, no.

Raine posted:

i hate christmas

Real hurthling! posted:

buy some garbage for people and get drunk like everyone else theres no award for humbuggin it

a strange fowl posted:

[Biosphere Collapse] no. don't. don't buy some garbage. that is the problem