In the beginning about 15 billion years ago there was a quantum fluctuation like an unexpected hiccup. The universe was born in a big bang.
The universe exploded and stretched, and mini small bangs quantized space with particles and anti-particles and they jostled until they annihilated one another, like soldiers in battle. But the birth of the universe was not perfect, for there was a tiny fraction more particles than anti-particles. And an ash of particles remained behind to coalesce and take form.
In weather, water condenses, clouds form, and snow crystallizes dances and swirls into moving hurricanes that take a life of their own. They move and persist.
In the universe, lightning struck and particles condensed in patterns like frost on a window pane. And with more and more motion the dance became warmer and hotter, and the frost evaporated into dust that coalesced into mass.
Mass gravitated into clumps of different sizes and the clumps spun around and got hot and ignited into stars. Stars burned like an oven and spewed forth atoms of all sizes like pastry. And the bigger the oven, the more and bigger bread it baked to feed the growing universe.
Atoms spewed from burned out stars and gravitated and aggregated and reincarnated into new stars. A tiny fraction of them were left behind and formed rings around the sun like a fence. And with time they bumped, stuck and rolled up to form planets.
A planet called “earth” remained near a star called “sun” following it like a child follows her mother. The heat from the sun shone on her and evaporated water which rose up in the air, moved and fell as rain. The rain baptized her, bathed her, and made lakes rivers and oceans to cool her.
Gases rose up and covered her with a warm blanket of air. When the crust of the earth cracked, liquid rock below oozed to the surface above the waters, solidified, and formed land. Weather carved the land and slowly eroded the rocks into sand.
And in this soup of atoms, basic building blocks of life formed and grouped and prospered and evolved. The molecules of life grouped and formed a cell. With time they were able to sense their environment and move when and where they needed to move to. So they swam around looking for the sustenance of energy, and fled from the discomforts of danger. They grew in size to increase their awareness of their environment until they were too big to contain in one mass.
Cells made communication networks with each other and in this way groups of cells formed multi cellular organisms. The cells having support of other cells evolved specialized functions. A few gradually wiggled out of the seas and discovered land. And others wiggled from land and took to the air. They evolved to fill and exploit their new environment.
Plants landed on land and they were followed by amphibians. 60 million years later, insects began to crawl about and fly around. Another 60 million years later, turtles, crocodiles, dinosaurs and flowers made their appearance, and 60 million years later still a huge comet hit the earth and killed off the dinosaurs. This catastrophic event allowed mammals to evolve towards world domination.
With time, one unique life form called “man” evolved and developed to a point where they were able to exploit their environment and move to whenever and wherever they wanted to move to. The more they moved, the more curious they got, until they moved to every continent they found. They had freedom to want, desire, wish, hope and believe. And they eventually evolved to fill and exploit their environment.
The universe exploded and stretched, and mini small bangs quantized space with particles and anti-particles and they jostled until they annihilated one another, like soldiers in battle. But the birth of the universe was not perfect, for there was a tiny fraction more particles than anti-particles. And an ash of particles remained behind to coalesce and take form.
In weather, water condenses, clouds form, and snow crystallizes dances and swirls into moving hurricanes that take a life of their own. They move and persist.
In the universe, lightning struck and particles condensed in patterns like frost on a window pane. And with more and more motion the dance became warmer and hotter, and the frost evaporated into dust that coalesced into mass.
Mass gravitated into clumps of different sizes and the clumps spun around and got hot and ignited into stars. Stars burned like an oven and spewed forth atoms of all sizes like pastry. And the bigger the oven, the more and bigger bread it baked to feed the growing universe.
Atoms spewed from burned out stars and gravitated and aggregated and reincarnated into new stars. A tiny fraction of them were left behind and formed rings around the sun like a fence. And with time they bumped, stuck and rolled up to form planets.
A planet called “earth” remained near a star called “sun” following it like a child follows her mother. The heat from the sun shone on her and evaporated water which rose up in the air, moved and fell as rain. The rain baptized her, bathed her, and made lakes rivers and oceans to cool her.
Gases rose up and covered her with a warm blanket of air. When the crust of the earth cracked, liquid rock below oozed to the surface above the waters, solidified, and formed land. Weather carved the land and slowly eroded the rocks into sand.
And in this soup of atoms, basic building blocks of life formed and grouped and prospered and evolved. The molecules of life grouped and formed a cell. With time they were able to sense their environment and move when and where they needed to move to. So they swam around looking for the sustenance of energy, and fled from the discomforts of danger. They grew in size to increase their awareness of their environment until they were too big to contain in one mass.
Cells made communication networks with each other and in this way groups of cells formed multi cellular organisms. The cells having support of other cells evolved specialized functions. A few gradually wiggled out of the seas and discovered land. And others wiggled from land and took to the air. They evolved to fill and exploit their new environment.
Plants landed on land and they were followed by amphibians. 60 million years later, insects began to crawl about and fly around. Another 60 million years later, turtles, crocodiles, dinosaurs and flowers made their appearance, and 60 million years later still a huge comet hit the earth and killed off the dinosaurs. This catastrophic event allowed mammals to evolve towards world domination.
With time, one unique life form called “man” evolved and developed to a point where they were able to exploit their environment and move to whenever and wherever they wanted to move to. The more they moved, the more curious they got, until they moved to every continent they found. They had freedom to want, desire, wish, hope and believe. And they eventually evolved to fill and exploit their environment.
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And a picture loudly and clearly spoke 1,000 words whenever looked at.
Man saw that spoken words can be drawn and stored and didn't have to be remembered. And it was seen that drawing made man communicate.
Humanity was like a child speaking with a crayon.
Sounds, especially from rolling waves and chirping birds soothed man. Whenever soothing was needed or wanted, man instinctively imitated bird sounds by whistles and grunts. People saw that music raised the spirits in the group.
And with a song a thousand pictures could be sung.
Man was specially gifted with a tongue so flexible that he could imitate any sounds of any animals. Seeing people play music made people laugh, dance and feel happy and good.
Humanity was like a giggling baby.
Man was specially gifted with such a creative flexible mind that he could imitate any feelings and meanings by sounds. The first word was "O"..."OW" followed by "WOW". "MOM" came soon after, followed by "ME" "ME", "ME". Once these first words were understood, new words like "NO" and "GO" were added. And the spoken word made man listen. Talking and listening made man think. Thinking helped man to survive. Spoken word allowed men to form close bonds for sharing their innermost ideas and most valued thoughts. It allowed man to warn and to give advice to and it helped many to survive.
Humanity was like a baby uttering its first words.
Man was unique in many ways from other animals. He walked upright, leaving his hands free to talk with and carry things, and allowing him to gaze up at the sky and the sun in wonder and awe at the heavens as he wandered around. He was not covered in hair and was able to cool himself sufficiently so that he could out run furry animals who were much faster and who eventually over heated and burned out. While other animals fled fires in fear, man was attracted to them out of respect. He looked on fire like he looked on the sun. He was comforted to see some big fires starting baby fires by sending out sparks. And he saw that when fed, they grew into big fires just like children.
He carried baby fires into his caves and fed them and kept them growing. Fire, like children, enlightened man and brought him warmth, light, comfort and hope in the cold dark nights. Fire kept live animals away and made dead animals taste better. Taming fire was like taming the sun. It lightened any dark and heavy feelings he had about life.
Fire allowed man to find peace, safety and warmth in the darkness when the sun set. He now shared his imagination, hopes and fears with his family and friends. He now cooked his food so that he could better grow his brain.
Man used fire as a tool to exploit his environment. They melted rocks into metals and made tools with them to tame the plants they gathered. They settled and worked the ground and re-routed rivers and made plants grow whenever they wanted. Hunters and gatherers evolved into farmers and consumers. And one man could grow as much food as 100 men could gather. And wherever agriculture flowered, settlements flourished, people's skills expanded, and civilizations grew.
When man started to write, written words enabled his thoughts and his knowledge to be stored for later contemplation and to be scattered like seed to grow. This cultivation, communication and sharing of thoughts, knowledge and experience resulted in the growth of agriculture that enabled civilizations to flourish.
About 5,000BC, human extinction was again threatened by a serious natural disaster forcing many people to flee and move. They migrated in every direction seeking better accommodations.
Humanity was like a child learning to walk.
When a person moved away or died, all the knowledge he accumulated was at risk of being forever lost. And suddenly, as if by necessity to survive, people began to share their most valued ideas by storing these thoughts externally on stone and leather. And the written word became available for many generations to read and learn from the remote past. Written words made man imagine, and read words made man ponder deeper.
Humanity was like a child learning to read and write.
Fire allowed man to find peace, safety and warmth in the darkness when the sun set. He now shared his imagination, hopes and fears with his family and friends. He now cooked his food so that he could better grow his brain.
Man used fire as a tool to exploit his environment. They melted rocks into metals and made tools with them to tame the plants they gathered. They settled and worked the ground and re-routed rivers and made plants grow whenever they wanted. Hunters and gatherers evolved into farmers and consumers. And one man could grow as much food as 100 men could gather. And wherever agriculture flowered, settlements flourished, people's skills expanded, and civilizations grew.
When man started to write, written words enabled his thoughts and his knowledge to be stored for later contemplation and to be scattered like seed to grow. This cultivation, communication and sharing of thoughts, knowledge and experience resulted in the growth of agriculture that enabled civilizations to flourish.
About 5,000BC, human extinction was again threatened by a serious natural disaster forcing many people to flee and move. They migrated in every direction seeking better accommodations.
Humanity was like a child learning to walk.
When a person moved away or died, all the knowledge he accumulated was at risk of being forever lost. And suddenly, as if by necessity to survive, people began to share their most valued ideas by storing these thoughts externally on stone and leather. And the written word became available for many generations to read and learn from the remote past. Written words made man imagine, and read words made man ponder deeper.
Humanity was like a child learning to read and write.
Before men could talk, they groaned and grunted. Just like with crying and laughing, it was sometimes difficult to tell the difference between displays of sorrow and joy, or pain and pleasure. Then man started to use words to display his emotions. Words helped man to think and enabled him to articulate and share his inner most thoughts. Talking soon led to drawing and painting. Pictures allowed his speech to be stored for later review and contemplation.
And a picture loudly and clearly spoke 1,000 words whenever looked at.
Man saw that spoken words can be drawn and stored and didn't have to be remembered. And it was seen that drawing made man communicate.
Man saw that spoken words can be drawn and stored and didn't have to be remembered. And it was seen that drawing made man communicate.
Humanity was like a child speaking with a crayon.
Man was specially gifted with a tongue so flexible that he could imitate any sounds of any animals. Seeing people play music made people laugh, dance and feel happy and good.
Humanity was like a giggling baby.
At about 4,000BC, humanity learned numbers which nature sang so clear and it was beautiful music for many. Numbers was a new language that allowed man to interact with nature and appreciate its power and learn from it. Man was specially gifted with such dexterous fingers and once he learned to count, he could make anything he needed with them. He made tools that helped him build dwellings, roads, and bridges that imitated nature. This allowed man to quickly leap far ahead.
Sounds, especially from rolling waves and chirping birds soothed man. Whenever soothing was needed or wanted, man instinctively imitated bird sounds by whistles and grunts. People saw that music raised the spirits in the group.
And with a song a thousand pictures could be sung.
Man was specially gifted with a tongue so flexible that he could imitate any sounds of any animals. Seeing people play music made people laugh, dance and feel happy and good.
Humanity was like a giggling baby.
At about 4,000BC, humanity learned numbers which nature sang so clear and it was beautiful music for many. Numbers was a new language that allowed man to interact with nature and appreciate its power and learn from it. Man was specially gifted with such dexterous fingers and once he learned to count, he could make anything he needed with them. He made tools that helped him build dwellings, roads, and bridges that imitated nature. This allowed man to quickly leap far ahead.
Humanity was like a dancing child.
When man started to write, written words enabled his thoughts and his knowledge to be stored for later contemplation and to be scattered like seed to grow. This cultivation, communication and sharing of thoughts, knowledge and experience resulted in the growth of agriculture that enabled civilizations to flourish.
At about this time, a talented man called Abraham who had very much compassion for his animals was born. Listening to his intuition and using his wisdom, he was able to tame his animals and used them to cross vast stretches of desert that were uncrossable before and discovered unknown lands that he settled in. When asked which gods guided him so well to success, he claimed that it was none of the gods they knew but a new personal god named Jehovah who claimed to work alone and be superior to the other gods. Many joined Abraham and adopted his god as their own. They traveled to many lands and their unity made them very prosperous.
One group traveled to a faraway land called Egypt, settled there, and prospered. Many centuries later a king of Egypt saw he could exploit these hard working people and conquered them and made them work like slaves for life.
At about 2,000BC a slave called Moses was born in Egypt who had very much compassion for his fellow slaves. Listening to his intuition and using his wisdom he was able to unite his people. He knew that united they would stand but divided they would fall and he united the fleeing slaves with morals that directed people to respect nature. Moses, with the slaves he freed, spent an entire generation looking for the very best land to settle in. When they found it they killed the inhabitants there and claimed the land as their own.
The land became very prosperous, and the people who were once slaves became very rich and famous all over the world.
When asked which gods guided them so well to prosperity, their leaders claimed that it was the personal god of Abraham. Seeing the power of this new god, people quickly converted and adopted the morals of these prosperous people, and they all prospered in the land they called Judea. They were called Jews.
At about 600BC, a powerful king from a faraway land called Babylon saw that he could exploit these prosperous Jews. He captured them and brought them back to Babylon as slaves. The Jews prospered in Babylon and many of their great great grandchildren were able to eventually buy their freedom and return back to Judea. In their absence the land had wasted, but with their united strength guided by their powerful god, they were able to make the land prosperous again.
Seeing their land was at the crossroads of the empires surrounding it, some Jews exploited this opportunity and became middle-men in all trade that passed thru. A few Jews seeing they could exploit this became money men traded money instead of services and goods. Controlling money made them very rich. And their wealth made them greedier and more arrogant. They claimed exclusive right to their powerful god. As all males had to have the ends of their penis mutilated, very few converted.
By 0AD, money was used as a means of exchanging anything of value. The more valuable the services or products, the more money was needed to buy them. Greed drove people to horde more and more money. The rich kept getting richer and the poor kept getting poorer and desperation caused men to rob and steal.
At this time a poor but generous Jew called Jesus was born. He had very much compassion for his fellow man. He saw too much greed and too much arrogance in his fellow Jews. Listening to his intuition and using his wisdom he tried to unite all people, Jews and non-Jews.
While Jews jealously guarded their god as theirs only, this rebel Jew Jesus offered it to everyone for free and without any need of any mutilation. While Jews had “eye for eye, tooth for tooth” morals, the rebel Jews insisted that it is better to get two slaps than to lose two eyes. As this was so radical to other Jews, people following this rebel were called Christians. Their belief was called Christianity. Jesus's rebellion caused the Jews to be divided, and soon after, they were not powerful enough to protect themselves. They were conquered and dispersed all over the world.
Jesus offered man a new morality for uniting all of man so that he may live more and more in peace in an ever shrinking world. He taught we must love nature who provides for all people, and we must love all her people, even if they are our enemies. He claimed that if we follow his message, we will one day find an everlasting peace. He warned and prophesied that if we do not follow his message of salvation, the world would end up just like it actually did.
Over a few centuries, Christians proved to be very meek and willing to suffer. They were motivated by faith and hope for an eternal life. One greedy and clever king of a faraway empire called Rome saw that Christians were very easily exploitable and thus wanted his subjects to be Christians. Within a few centuries there was a brutal campaign to convert everyone to the morals as followed by Christians.
At about 600AD, an inspired man called Mohammad was born in a part of the world where the people were much divided. They were neither Jews nor Christians. He needed his people to be as united as the Jews and as meek as the Christians. So he listened to his intuition and was able to unite his people under the same god that both Jews and Christians followed. They called their belief Islam, and people called them Muslims. They prospered and blossomed to a great civilization known for their gifted scientists. Christian leaders took great offense and for the next 2,000 years Christians and Muslims crusaded and killed each other in the name of the same god.
Humanity was like a defiant and rebellious child.
In 1100, the Jews and Muslims fought together to defend Jerusalem against the invading Christian crusaders from Europe. They were unsuccessful and the crusaders entered the city and proceeded to massacre the remaining Jewish and Muslim civilians. They pillaged and destroyed mosques and the city itself. This started the period of history called the Dark Ages. For the next 200 years, each generation had a new crusade which was bloodier and more brutal than the previous one.
About 100 years later the Catholic Church set up inquisitions which were courts that convicted Christians who had converted from their Muslim or Jewish faiths of heresy. Anyone who was suspected of secretly practicing rituals of the Muslims or Jews was accused of being a heretic. Christians, called witches, who were accused of using herbs instead of prayers to heal, were also considered heretics.
Any Christian could accuse any other Christian of heresy merely on suspicions, without having to present any evidence. During the inquisition, the accused were psychologically and physically tortured until they died or until they confessed their sins and incriminated others of heresy. Once they confessed, they were imprisoned for long periods, fined large amounts of money, and forced to wear a mark showing that they had sinned. Those that did not confess and survived their torture were burned alive. This barbaric cruel practice lasted for the next 700 years.
Genghis Khan, born in Mongolia was able to unite and organize many nomadic tribes. His army became famous for their fierce fighting power and his empire spread from Europe to Asia allowing the 2 cultures to mix and trade. They were like bakers baking bread to nourish humanity and raise it to great new heights. Caravans and ships started to carry many new products and new ideas from the east, including rats that carried new deadly diseases.
The Black Death, one of the worst pandemics in human history killed half of the population of Europe. Jews were blamed and a systematic extermination program was started. Jews were burned alive at the stake and their wealth was expropriated. This fear, hatred, blame, extermination and expropriation spread with the plague throughout Europe like a wild fire. This massive death opened up a way for a massive rebirth. The period of history known as the Renaissance was born. The beautiful architecture of Greece and Rome which lay buried for a thousand years was uncovered and people began to beautify their dark and gloomy churches and castles with statues and paintings. New ideas rose up and greatly enlightened the Dark ages.
Seeing their land was at the crossroads of the empires surrounding it, some Jews exploited this opportunity and became middle-men in all trade that passed thru. A few Jews seeing they could exploit this became money men traded money instead of services and goods. Controlling money made them very rich. And their wealth made them greedier and more arrogant. They claimed exclusive right to their powerful god. As all males had to have the ends of their penis mutilated, very few converted.
By 0AD, money was used as a means of exchanging anything of value. The more valuable the services or products, the more money was needed to buy them. Greed drove people to horde more and more money. The rich kept getting richer and the poor kept getting poorer and desperation caused men to rob and steal.
At this time a poor but generous Jew called Jesus was born. He had very much compassion for his fellow man. He saw too much greed and too much arrogance in his fellow Jews. Listening to his intuition and using his wisdom he tried to unite all people, Jews and non-Jews.
While Jews jealously guarded their god as theirs only, this rebel Jew Jesus offered it to everyone for free and without any need of any mutilation. While Jews had “eye for eye, tooth for tooth” morals, the rebel Jews insisted that it is better to get two slaps than to lose two eyes. As this was so radical to other Jews, people following this rebel were called Christians. Their belief was called Christianity. Jesus's rebellion caused the Jews to be divided, and soon after, they were not powerful enough to protect themselves. They were conquered and dispersed all over the world.
Jesus offered man a new morality for uniting all of man so that he may live more and more in peace in an ever shrinking world. He taught we must love nature who provides for all people, and we must love all her people, even if they are our enemies. He claimed that if we follow his message, we will one day find an everlasting peace. He warned and prophesied that if we do not follow his message of salvation, the world would end up just like it actually did.
Over a few centuries, Christians proved to be very meek and willing to suffer. They were motivated by faith and hope for an eternal life. One greedy and clever king of a faraway empire called Rome saw that Christians were very easily exploitable and thus wanted his subjects to be Christians. Within a few centuries there was a brutal campaign to convert everyone to the morals as followed by Christians.
At about 600AD, an inspired man called Mohammad was born in a part of the world where the people were much divided. They were neither Jews nor Christians. He needed his people to be as united as the Jews and as meek as the Christians. So he listened to his intuition and was able to unite his people under the same god that both Jews and Christians followed. They called their belief Islam, and people called them Muslims. They prospered and blossomed to a great civilization known for their gifted scientists. Christian leaders took great offense and for the next 2,000 years Christians and Muslims crusaded and killed each other in the name of the same god.
Humanity was like a defiant and rebellious child.
In 1100, the Jews and Muslims fought together to defend Jerusalem against the invading Christian crusaders from Europe. They were unsuccessful and the crusaders entered the city and proceeded to massacre the remaining Jewish and Muslim civilians. They pillaged and destroyed mosques and the city itself. This started the period of history called the Dark Ages. For the next 200 years, each generation had a new crusade which was bloodier and more brutal than the previous one.
About 100 years later the Catholic Church set up inquisitions which were courts that convicted Christians who had converted from their Muslim or Jewish faiths of heresy. Anyone who was suspected of secretly practicing rituals of the Muslims or Jews was accused of being a heretic. Christians, called witches, who were accused of using herbs instead of prayers to heal, were also considered heretics.
Any Christian could accuse any other Christian of heresy merely on suspicions, without having to present any evidence. During the inquisition, the accused were psychologically and physically tortured until they died or until they confessed their sins and incriminated others of heresy. Once they confessed, they were imprisoned for long periods, fined large amounts of money, and forced to wear a mark showing that they had sinned. Those that did not confess and survived their torture were burned alive. This barbaric cruel practice lasted for the next 700 years.
Genghis Khan, born in Mongolia was able to unite and organize many nomadic tribes. His army became famous for their fierce fighting power and his empire spread from Europe to Asia allowing the 2 cultures to mix and trade. They were like bakers baking bread to nourish humanity and raise it to great new heights. Caravans and ships started to carry many new products and new ideas from the east, including rats that carried new deadly diseases.
The Black Death, one of the worst pandemics in human history killed half of the population of Europe. Jews were blamed and a systematic extermination program was started. Jews were burned alive at the stake and their wealth was expropriated. This fear, hatred, blame, extermination and expropriation spread with the plague throughout Europe like a wild fire. This massive death opened up a way for a massive rebirth. The period of history known as the Renaissance was born. The beautiful architecture of Greece and Rome which lay buried for a thousand years was uncovered and people began to beautify their dark and gloomy churches and castles with statues and paintings. New ideas rose up and greatly enlightened the Dark ages.
Christian leaders became very paranoid about people that opposed their belief, like the Muslims and the scientists did. Many were tortured and burned at the stake and many libraries were burned. While the Muslims and Christians were fighting, the Jews were refining their art and science of business that they have been learning for many centuries. They opened money stores called banks. They bought money from the many poor and sold it to the few rich. Many people treated money as if it were a god, believing that money assures security and happiness in our future.
The poor masses knew that the richer they were the more secure they would feel. They knew that money could buy anything they needed. The few rich knew the poor would do anything for money. The rich had more money than they needed or could spend. The more money they had, the more money they wanted. And their only need was to get richer.
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