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5/18/2013

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"If the world shoud break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless."
- The Roman Poet Horace
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The African Leopard is an animal that can thrive alone in the darkest night in Africa.
“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)” 
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
Horace
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Baby Warthog faces the Lion

5/18/2013

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                                            A baby Warthog faces an Adult Lioness in a defensive stance.
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Map of World Mythology

5/13/2013

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"[I]f history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible. As a result those who hunger for both intellectual and religious truth will never acquire both in full measure.
The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind. "
Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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Natural History Redux

5/8/2013

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"History includes too much chaos, or extremely sensitive dependence on minute and unmeasurable differences in initial conditions, leading to massively divergent outcomes based on tiny and unknowable disparities in starting points. And history includes too much contingency, or shaping of present results by long chains of unpredictable antecedent states, rather than immediate determination by timeless laws of nature.
Homo Sapiens did not appear on the earth, just a geologic second ago, because evolutionary theory predicts such an outcome based on themes of progress and increasing neural complexity. Humans arose, rather, as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness."
Stephen Jay Gould


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Heraclitus - History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea

5/6/2013

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"History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world. "
Heraclitus
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"Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves."
Alain de Botton
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