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Originally posted by Skyfloating
Are you sure? Or are you romanticizing the distant past? As far as I know life expectancy was lower,
Originally posted by Skyfloating
a simple cold could kill you
Originally posted by Skyfloating
and brutality reigned.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
And as an average citizen you'd be lucky to see any other town than your own.
Dr Stock agrees that farming has played a powerful role in distorting human development. "The disparities we see today between those who are exploited and those who exploit are all based on those early origins of agriculture," he explains. Hunter-gatherers, for example, ate a wide variety of foods, around 60-70 kinds a year. But once humans switched to agriculture, we became dependent on a small number of crops. (Today, these are wheat, rice and corn, which provide the bulk of calories for the world's population.)
The problem is that most of these staple foods do not have the nutrients essential for a healthy life and are vulnerable to disease and drought. Moreover, having a population based in one place led to poor hygiene, just as living in proximity with domesticated animals inevitably resulted in diseases being transferred between species, as today's outbreak of swine flu reminds us.
I'd rather take a crap next to a tree then on a toilet which a thousand people use, you know my poop can act as a fertilizer
Originally posted by Village Idiot
Thank you Skyfloating.... once again you show the light in a tunnel which is perceived as totally dark.
Life is full of ups and downs, we need to concentrate on both the highs and lows, not just the lows only, to find a balance in between, but that is up to the individual and what they truly desire.
Originally posted by B.Morrison
That is interesting & true but the middle class today is still the middle class & we still have a class system.
Originally posted by dominicus
Since I was a wee lad, from my very first memories I've hated this place
Honestly man ...look around you at this planet and the evil that happens, the corruption of human nature.
I'm really disgusted personally that you see it all as getting better
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Originally posted by B.Morrison
That is interesting & true but the middle class today is still the middle class & we still have a class system.
You wouldnt want to take out the competition out of the game, would ya?
Originally posted by AudioGhost
So in essence they are making the same, possibly less since $1 25 years ago DOES NOT = $1 currently; I imagine it would be up to someone more mathematical then myself to answer that.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
You wouldnt want to take out the competition out of the game, would ya?
Originally posted by xavi1000
Sorry ,i don't know in what World you are living but the World is hell for the majority of the population and sorry if i will spoil your mood . Hell can't be getting better and better
Originally posted by irsuccubus
Is the world getting better? ...Yes. Is the world getting worse? Yes. Perspective is the name of the game and we as observers choose what we want the reality of our world to look like. Its an enormous canvas filled with battle scenes and lovers and fiends in the shadows and crying children but as you step further back you are able to see the flora and the fauna....the sky and the sea and suddenly things are a lot less personal. And further still the world becomes even more impartial and you begin to see the big picture and remember that you aren't removed from it. Without being cliched.....life is suffering. Existence is wrought with pain and desperation from early on but these things HAVE to happen.