—“Which is the world’s oldest religion? What is the evidence of it?”— Quora
The correct question is “What is the oldest political religion?”, because that is the function of all surviving religions from the Axial period. Sumerians first wrote down their religions in 3500 BCE and most political religions evolved evolved from competition with theirs. We see evidence if organized religion in Anatolia from 8–9,000 bc, predating stonehenge by 6000 years.
It appears we developed religious practices (what we call sacred, but is more correctly, suppression of all self interest, status signal, and dominance expression ) no less than 40k years ago. There was our first and longest dark age around 20–21k bc. Then practices resumed, around 13k bc.
it wasn’t that long – about 8000 bc – until farming, and farming creates folk religions in an and around anatolia -still burial focused.
Around 5500 bc the indo europeans developed sacrificial religion, and spread it – man now bargaining with the gods.
And again, by 3300 we see the rapid development of political religion in every region of eurasia.
|Religion|: Burial > Sacrificial > Political > [Theraputic]
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/license-to-kill-policing-to-get-a-trial-run-in-rio-de-janeiro#gs.7aCY6UcRIO DE JANERIO IS CONSIDERING THE DUERTE METHOD OF CRIMINAL REDUCTION.
Not exactly Judge Dredd but getting pretty close to it.
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—“The adult bobcat is 18.7 to 49.2 in long from the head to the base of the tail, averaging 32.6 in; the stubby tail adds 3.5 to 7.9 in and its “bobbed” appearance gives the species its name.
An adult stands about 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in) at the shoulders. Adult males can range in weight from 14 to 40 lb, with an average of 21 lb; females at 8.8 to 33.7 lb, with an average of 15 lb.
The largest bobcat accurately measured on record weighed 49 lb, although unverified reports have them reaching 60 lb. Furthermore, a June 20, 2012 report of a New Hampshire roadkill specimen listed the animal’s weight at 60 lb. The largest-bodied bobcats are of the subspecies L. r. gigas and range from eastern Canada and northern New England.
The bobcat is muscular, and its hind legs are longer than its front legs, giving it a bobbing gait. At birth, it weighs 0.6 to 0.75 lb and is about 10 in in length. By its first birthday, it weighs about 10 lb.”—Jack RiänBobcats are pretty scary, but I’ve never had a more nerve-wracking experience than being leaned up against a tree during a turkey hunt and seeing a mountain lion looking directly at me from a stone’s throw distance, unsure of whether or not I’m actually there.Dec 22, 2018, 2:24 PMCurt Doolittleyeah. I hear you. Mountain lion sitting on fallen tree, watching me, max, and my two year old. Never let him outside alone after that again.
( Bears scare me more actually. )Dec 22, 2018, 2:31 PMJack RiänSurviving a bear attack is only half the battle.
The other half is antibiotics so you don’t die of sepsis. LolDec 22, 2018, 2:42 PMJean LeonardHow lucky you are.Dec 22, 2018, 2:47 PMCurt DoolittleMomma and baby or two… they’re beautiful animals.Dec 22, 2018, 2:49 PMJean LeonardWhen I was a little girl, we had Florida Pumas in the neighborhood. They took some of my chickens until our mama cat took them over and protected them. They all grew up thinking they were cats. Roosters who crowed at 10 am. I kid you not.Dec 22, 2018, 2:50 PMMark A. CavanaughHere’s mine at the taxidermist getting finished.Dec 22, 2018, 3:35 PMJean LeonardDoes this make you feel manly?Dec 22, 2018, 3:38 PMMark A. CavanaughNo, but the pepperoni sticks I made from it do.Dec 22, 2018, 3:39 PMMark A. CavanaughDid the Puma who killed your chickens feel manly? We’re all predators, we just happen to be at the apex.Dec 22, 2018, 3:40 PMCurt DoolittleAPPARENTLY THEY’RE PROTECTED HERE
https://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2723&q=597164&deepNav_GID=1655Dec 22, 2018, 3:43 PMJean LeonardMark A. Cavanaugh We ate the chickens not the puma.,,nor the cat who protected the chickens (our food). You appear to be lonely there in the dark.Dec 22, 2018, 3:45 PMJean LeonardGood.Dec 22, 2018, 3:47 PMMark A. CavanaughJean Leonard – why? It’s legal to harvest bobcat in my state as a method of conservation and population control. The quotas are set and controlled by wildlife biologists that protect the best interest of the species. I’m not sorry that you’re offended by the legal harvest of an animal that was consumed and cherished by the hunter.Dec 22, 2018, 3:50 PMBrady Alan KingreyPredators must be controlled just like populations of deer, birds, etc. They destroy livestock as well as the populations of other native species and domestic pets. And it’s not as if this was a trophy kill-he used the meat provided and kept the pelt!Dec 22, 2018, 3:54 PMBill JoslinNICE!!!!Dec 22, 2018, 4:02 PMJean LeonardMark A. Cavanaugh I am offended by you treating them as prizes. You are no more important for displaying a dead cat on your wall than displaying a dead child. Or do you do that too?Dec 22, 2018, 4:07 PMMark A. CavanaughJean Leonard – have a great Christmas and New Years, Jean. I can’t have an intelligent conversation with someone that only relies on emotion as the basis for their argument.Dec 22, 2018, 4:11 PMJean LeonardMark A. Cavanaugh Nor can I.Dec 22, 2018, 4:30 PMMark A. CavanaughDec 22, 2018, 4:33 PMPatrick NagleTheir voice is actually really funny.
https://youtu.be/eaXmIPHrHmYDec 22, 2018, 4:43 PMMichael ChurchillThat’s awesome. I heard from people I used to play tennis with that there were bobcats in the woods right outside the beltway in Virginia. Makes sense but I never saw them.Dec 22, 2018, 5:49 PMChip SillsA pre-conflict face-off. House cats do it all the time, and sound similar. BTW Lynx are not Bobcats–they are larger and colored differently.Dec 23, 2018, 7:57 AMNEW NEIGHBOR …
—“The adult bobcat is 18.7 to 49.2 in long from the head to the base of the tail, averaging 32.6 in; the stubby tail adds 3.5 to 7.9 in and its “bobbed” appearance gives the species its name.
An adult stands about 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in) at the shoulders. Adult males can range in weight from 14 to 40 lb, with an average of 21 lb; females at 8.8 to 33.7 lb, with an average of 15 lb.
The largest bobcat accurately measured on record weighed 49 lb, although unverified reports have them reaching 60 lb. Furthermore, a June 20, 2012 report of a New Hampshire roadkill specimen listed the animal’s weight at 60 lb. The largest-bodied bobcats are of the subspecies L. r. gigas and range from eastern Canada and northern New England.
The bobcat is muscular, and its hind legs are longer than its front legs, giving it a bobbing gait. At birth, it weighs 0.6 to 0.75 lb and is about 10 in in length. By its first birthday, it weighs about 10 lb.”—
Whoever goes by the handle “Singular Discourse” … Just wanted to thank you again for the brief introduction you wrote in ’16. I’ve editing the Overview of Propertarianism to include pretty much everything you wrote. Why? Because your writing is wonderfully clear and parsimonious.
—“I’m pretty sure debating leftist idiots online is just an exposure to pointless risk and a waste of time.”— a friend
You’re just exercising and thereby improving your skills. That’s the only value of debate: exercise your skills against the enemy in order to improve your educational skills with your allies.
But what are we more precisely referring to when we use the term “Propertarianism”?
1) The completion of the scientific method and its application to social science.
The completion of the scientific method is the core achievement of the work, and in retrospect it explains the reason for the rise of social pseudoscience from Marx, Boas, Freud, Cantor, Mises, Mainstream Economics, The Frankfurt School, The Success in circumventing the Constitution, the libertarianism of Rothbard/Rand, and the Neoconservatism of Strauss. The Postmodernists and the rise of postmodernism in the academy. And the Feminists, and the feminization of markets, the workplace, norms, educations, and institutions, and the infantilization of the population as a consequence.
2) The Natural Law of Human Cooperation
However we focus our application of the completed scientific method on Economics, Ethics, Law Politics, and Group Evolutionary Strategy, and we use demonstrated property in its totality as a unit of measure – in not only economic, but ethical, moral, legal, and political commensurability. So the word ‘propertarianism’ refers to the use of demonstrated interests, and the defense of those interests, as a unit of measure providing commensurability, and the test of reciprocity as truth or falsehood, good or bad, ethical or unethical, moral or immoral, and legal or illegal. And in fact, this is how all law is constructed today in one way or another, and to one degree or another.
So, the correct name for the work we call ‘propertarianism’ would be The Natural Law.
We just can’t use it because the term has been so loaded throughout history, on the one hand, and because it’s not an identifiable ‘brand’ on the other.
So the simple version is:
Laws of Nature = The Physical Sciences.
Natural Law = The Social Sciences.
Sorry but it’s a paradigm shift that we just have to pay the cost of learning.
3) A Set of Related and Dependent Ideas
We use the ‘brand name’ Propertarianism to refer collectively to three different sets of ideas:
– Methodology: The Natural Law including restatements of metaphysics, psychology, sociology, epistemology, ethics, politics, and group evolutionary strategy (the cooperation, competition, and conflict of civilizations).
– Application: The Use of the Natural Law to Produce Constitutions, and therefore Societies, Nations, and Civilizations, in Accordance with Natural Law.
– Explanation: The reason for the disproportionate contribution an success of the west in the ancient and modern worlds. And The history of the cycles of conflict between western(european) and eastern(asian) masculine civilizations against and central(semitic) feminine civilizations.
Counsel: Given that we are now in the post subsistence-agrarian era, we are wealthy enough to express our genetic differences, and as such are entering into political conflict between the ancient female herd reproductive strategy and civilizations, and the male pack reproductive strategy and civilizations. It appears we can no longer compromise, and neither interest can be pursued without some sort of oppression or genocide. So we can no longer assume we will create a one-world-government and a uniformity among peoples, but instead, we must separate, prospert, and speciate according to our genetic interests, and our differences in moral intuition because of those interests. As such the constitutions we recommend, are those that facilitate ‘letting a thousand nations bloom’ and returning to the speciation that we were in the process of achieving prior to both the anglo conquest of the world by sea, and the gradual transformation of our means of production from hunter-gathering and speciation, to agrarianism and unification. The future is very different from that under which the majority of our history was written down.
It is often challenging to understand which of these things we are discussing in at any given moment even if they are independent, because we use them in concert in most of our discussions. The reason is that we tend to be working on Counsel, because we already understand Methodology, Application, and Explanation.
Summary: Only europeans could invent The Laws of Nature and the Natural Laws – but EVERY people can use them to prosper. And to some degree, our future prosperity, is dependent upon doing so.
—“Virtually no human action occurs in a vacuum – what they really mean is that “we do not agree, but you are wrong because I am complaining”— Micah Pezdirtz
