The word human comes from the Latin word humus meaning earth or soil.
Also the Hebrew name Adam means ”formed of the earth”.
”Of the earth have you come …”
What is this thing called humanity that is so powerful upon the earth?
from the book System Humanity
“Energy and mass. Solid, liquid, gas.
From the stars have we come, through darkness shall we pass.
Sometimes as rulers, sometimes as grass.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: A Light in the Night)
”Humans don’t evolve their bodies to adapt to different environments. They utilize technology. Instead of adapting their skin, they make clothes that can protect them from sun, wind, rain, frost and mosquitoes. They don’t have to wait a million years to evolve feet adapted to different types of terrain. They create footwear to walk in mud, climb mountains, tread through snow, hike across a desert, slam-dunk a basketball or glide down a catwalk.
Improve their vision? They can already see beyond the stars, to the depths of the oceans and into the tiniest secrets of the body.
We have come so far that we can manipulate genes. We can do in minutes, what evolution needs tens of thousands of years to do. The power to manipulate genes shows clearly that we are not slaves to the dictates of biology.”
from the book System Humanity
“The human brain weighs about 1400 grams,
but can hold tons of confusion.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Human = Of the Earth)
The United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights was proclaimed 64 years ago today in 1948
It was proclaimed as “the highest aspiration of the common people.”
Because the common people are not always profitable certain changes have been made — denoted with an asterisk (*).
Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
* Except the super rich who are freer and more dignified because they are too big to fail and consequently above the law.
Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind
* except where these rights and freedoms stand in the way of corporate profits.
Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person
* as long as they do not threaten the worship of money.
Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude
* except for people held in private prisons.
Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
* unless the degrading treatment or punishment is called enhanced interrogation.
Article 6: Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law
* unless labeled enemy combatant or any other arbitrarily selected term.
Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law
* if they can afford it.
Article 8: Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
* This article does not apply where competent national tribunals are unavailable.
Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile
* unless the rulers want to do it anyway.
“No law, no civilization.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: The Evolution of Technology)
Two windows, twelve glass panes.
Each pane reflects the same reality differently.
The religious pane.
The race pane.
The nationality pane.
The ethnic pane.
The gender pane.
The club pane …
The panes are pains.
One window with one glass would give more light
and a better view.
“The holy unite to create peace and prosperity,
the evil promote divisions to keep the holy weak.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Unprofitable Common People)
Woody Allen once referred to his brain as his second favorite organ. The penis is every man’s favorite organ. Why shouldn’t it be? It’s their defining organ. No penis, no man.
Men like their penis best when it’s hard. Not only men. Nature doesn’t take any chances when it comes to getting the penis into an erect position and has therefore 7 different methods to accomplish the task.
1. The scent of the female.
This is the most primitive, and most effective, method. When a woman sends forth her I’m-ready scent, the penis snaps to attention. Many men have unwillingly experienced this on the dance floor.
2. Touch
The penis loves the feel of skin; grab it, stroke it, pet it, squeeze it, caress it, kiss it or lick it. It is so sensitive to touch that it will get hard anticipating being touched.
3. Sperm production
Sperm production builds up in the testicles. The younger the male, the greater the intensity of the production. The accumulation causes pressure. It gets crowded in there and the little guys want out. This will stimulate an erection.
4. Visual stimulus
The sight of a fertile (ripe, willing, ”sexy”) female will send signals to the penis to get ready. This biological function has been twisted by cultural fetishes. Experiments have shown that curved lines similar to the curve of a young woman’s breasts are judged most positive by men. But, when the curves become round, as those similar to milk-full breasts, they lose their attraction. In other words we are biologically attracted to maidens, but not nursing mothers. A natural man, one not distorted with cultural conditioning, would be turned off by these surgically enhanced balloon babes. Many men are.
5. Fantasy
This is a large area and differs in different personalities. We enter the realm of psychology and the subconscious desires of individuals. Pornography feeds off these desires and supplies a smorgasbord of situations where women are dominated and abused.
6. Dreams
The dream center of the brain lives alongside the erection center. Here is the source of the morning erection and many other nightly erections that the male is unaware of. Psychologists have measured the rigidity of the ”dream” erection with a sensor-laced mesh attached to the penis of
volunteers. The psychologists claim that the mental state of a male can be determined by the hardness of the erection. Harder = happier.
7. Love
Men have testified to getting an erection upon receiving a phone call or an email from a loved one. Not because of any erotic content or expressed desire, merely the swell of love causing a swell between the legs.
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Many of these conditions can be at work at the same time causing the penis to get so hard that it can, in the words of Kurt Vonnegut, crack coconuts.
“References to the penis deal exceptionally with its normal state
and normally with its exceptional state.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Exclusively Old-fashioned)
Language, literacy and knowledge (a collection of facts) are powerful tools. They do not however guarantee or equate with intelligence. The best tools do not build the best furniture.
Intelligence denotes the ability to think and our minds contain several systems of thought. We can think intelligently in certain areas while tending to be simple in others.
Tons of texts deal with this. I can illustrate the point in another way. The book System Humanity has just become available. From just 56 pages—richly illustrated and relatively easy text—you will know more about the nature and condition of humanity than 99% of the professors in the world.
If you are intelligent, you will doubt that claim. If you are intelligent and adventurous, you will look into it.
If the claim is correct, you will acquire powerful knowledge. You will not become more intelligent (not much in any case), but will be capable of using the intelligence you own in a more effective manner.
It doesn’t take much intelligence to figure out that I’m promoting my book System Humanity. Why shouldn’t I? You can read under About the Blog (one of my first posts) that my goal is to offer bits and pieces of knowledge because I’m ”passionate about fighting greed and greedy to promote compassion.” System Humanity is one of the biggest pieces of knowledge I have to offer.
“We don’t think all of our thoughts, many of them go unthunk.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: The Power of the Penis)
In my blog 5 days ago, Conversation with a Lark, I wrote, ”Two weeks ago I met a lark tree in Switzerland.”
I don’t believe anyone can be so stupid to believe that I traveled to Switzerland to talk to a tree. Yet Steve Johnson who claims to be a student at Linköping University wrote:
”I was with my group today and talked about you and we visited your blog. So we were very suprised to learn that you can communicate with trees and that you leave Sweden to talk to trees in Switserland. We guess that you went by plane? Can you explain that? Do you know how much CO2 emission that means for a talk with a tree!!! So now you know why we think we have to fight against people like you! Super crazy.” (sic)
Let’s face it, no one is that stupid. The question is why is Steve is pretending to be?
I believe Steve is on a mission to keep the youth away from the older generation and to discredit any older person who may influence the youth. Criticize the person, not what they say. Cause dissension! Split the people! Distract from the responsibility of the rulers!
He has written:
”I am critical about the (older) generation who made a mess of this world”
and
”We (the youth of the world) have a very strong willingness … to change what your generation has done to our planet and is still continuing to spoil.”
The problems of our times (according to the artful stupidity of Steve) has been and is caused by the older generation. He never mentions the 1%, the corporate-military complex, the banksters, the oil barons, the corrupt politicians, the liars who start wars … No, it is we, the older people, who are the problem.
You have to be stupid to believe anyone is that stupid.
*(If you’d like Steve’s side of the story, click on the About picture above and request his @ress from Selma.)
“Tyrants fear the unity of experience and enthusiasm.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: The Great Myth of Knowledge and Intelligence)
”You have also answered the third riddle correctly,” Mount Rakmun informed me. ”The truth goes everywhere, is always helpful, but often not welcome. I’ll now tell you about humans and trees.
”Humanity has evolved from primates, who, for all practical purposes were tree creatures. For more than 60 million years they adapted their existence to life in the trees.
”When climate changes eliminated vast areas of trees in Africa one species adapted to life on the ground by learning to stand upright and fight with a rock in hand. Before long (in evolutionary terms) they learned how to make stone knives that were primarily used to shape branches into spears. This led them to discover how to master fire, and wood once again became their most important resource as fuel and the raw material for tools. The original word for tree is the source of the words true and trust.
”The trees have supplied humans with resources and energy for millions of years and continue to do so.
”How do humans treat trees? To put it simply, they kill them. They kill them in increasingly larger amounts both directly and indirectly through fires and diseases resulting from environmental changes. Not to mention wars. Humans are killing trees everywhere, greatly reducing their numbers.
”The trees not only capture energy from the sun and give it all to the earth, they provide homes, shelter and nourishment for many forms of life from bugs to birds. They would even sacrifice themselves for humans, if humans would at least replace what they take. They don’t. Trees see humans as takers and destroyers.
”I’ll put it to you straight: the trees would rejoice if humanity went extinct. That would change if humanity changed and promoted the spread of trees. But that’s probably not going to happen, is it?
“When confronted with sacrificing 10 people or 10 trees,
the 1%er asked,
”What is most profitable?”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: The Art of Stupidity)
”You have answered the second riddle correctly. God never sees an equal, the king sees one occasionally and we see equals daily.
”Arrogance used to be considered a deadly sin.
”You must answer one more riddle before I tell you why the trees won’t talk to you about humanity. Here is the riddle, to be answered tomorrow:
What goes everywhere, is always helpful but often not welcome?
This is a modern riddle and as modern people are not schooled in the art of riddles, it is easier than the first two.”
“The best way is always the fastest way even if it takes longer.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Humanity and the Truth of Trees)
”You have answered the first riddle correctly. A person walks on four legs in the morning, two legs during the day, and three legs in the evening. That is to say, in the morning of life we crawl on four legs, during the day of life we walk on two, and in the evening of life, aided by a cane, we use three.
”The ancients were often reminding one another of the conditions of life and the inevitability of change.
”You have come one step closer to knowing why the trees won’t talk to you about humanity. Here is the next riddle to be answered by tomorrow:
What does God never see, the king sees occasionally and we see daily?
“This one was popular during the Middle Ages, yesterday’s was from ancient Greece.”
“Even the blind can see love.”
Dartwill Aquila
(Tomorrow: Rakmun’s Last Riddle)
System Humanity 