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Rockindad fully equipped rock polisher Member since January 2019 Posts: 1,817	Nothing New Under the Sun Apr 20, 2021 17:51:26 GMT -5 RWA3006, lookatthat, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rockindad on Apr 20, 2021 17:51:26 GMT -5 www.newscientist.com/article/2273020-people-living-100000-years-ago-spent-time-collecting-crystals/
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Nothing New Under the Sun Apr 21, 2021 7:01:48 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones, Rockindad, and 1 more like this

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Post by RWA3006 on Apr 21, 2021 7:01:48 GMT -5

One hundred thousand years is a blink of an eye in evolutionary time.

Lately I've been pondering the concept of beauty in the human psyche and was thinking it was unique to the human species... till I remembered seeing "objects de arte" in packrat middens and some bower birds are well known to collect beautiful items.

If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that?
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Nothing New Under the Sun Apr 21, 2021 9:58:03 GMT -5 RWA3006 and Pat like this

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Post by lookatthat on Apr 21, 2021 9:58:03 GMT -5

Apr 21, 2021 7:01:48 GMT -5 RWA3006 said:

New Compelling Evidence Suggests Humans Descended from Small Rodents

mohs In Memoriam RIP mohstly Member since January 2009 Posts: 19,412	Nothing New Under the Sun Apr 21, 2021 10:03:47 GMT -5 RWA3006 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mohs on Apr 21, 2021 10:03:47 GMT -5 50 million years and we've only made a little ratty progress mostly
	Last Edit: Apr 21, 2021 10:04:40 GMT -5 by mohs dazagneiss

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Nothing New Under the Sun Apr 21, 2021 12:37:31 GMT -5 mohs and Pat like this

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Apr 21, 2021 9:58:03 GMT -5 lookatthat said:

Apr 21, 2021 7:01:48 GMT -5 RWA3006 said:

New Compelling Evidence Suggests Humans Descended from Small Rodents

Made me laugh. I wouldn't be surprised cause I know some ratty characters.

If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that?
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Nothing New Under the Sun Apr 21, 2021 14:59:32 GMT -5

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Post by mohs on Apr 21, 2021 14:59:32 GMT -5

How to out intelligent nature?

I think that may very well be nature's goal
Why else create a creature w/ self-aware consciousness?

Or it may just be easier to go with the flow ha

Self-awareness consciousness can emulate so much of nature.
The wily deceptiveness, and yes, nature even creates art;
which seems sometimes just for art sake.
And
Sometimes nature is even cooperative and nurturing

But mostly its just take advantage at every turn or (tumbleweed)

Nature is certainly an imponderable
Lucky humans,,,

dazagneiss

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