24 Feb 2011, 6:47 pm
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They are not lyrical material.
24 Feb 2011, 7:29 pm
Vigilans wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Vigilans wrote:
TechnicalPacifist wrote:
The pre-historic hunter-gatherers. Not that they were a culture/civilization, but you get my point.
Working at most 20 hours a week and probably living a life as sexually active and promiscuous as Bonobo chimpanzees? Sounds good
And the Good Times lasted maybe 35 years.
ruveyn
That's okay, 35 years of careless sex and hunting would probably feel better then 80 years of slaving in an office cubicle
Unless you were a woman. Then you were pregnant from the minute you hit puberty until you died, probably whilst having a baby.
The only thing that makes the modern world tolerable is birth control
24 Feb 2011, 7:31 pm
puddingmouse wrote:
Vigilans wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Vigilans wrote:
TechnicalPacifist wrote:
The pre-historic hunter-gatherers. Not that they were a culture/civilization, but you get my point.
Working at most 20 hours a week and probably living a life as sexually active and promiscuous as Bonobo chimpanzees? Sounds good
And the Good Times lasted maybe 35 years.
ruveyn
That's okay, 35 years of careless sex and hunting would probably feel better then 80 years of slaving in an office cubicle
Unless you were a woman. Then you were pregnant from the minute you hit puberty until you died, probably whilst having a baby.
The only thing that makes the modern world tolerable is birth control
Just wrap it in a sheep's bladder condom like they used to do
The ancient Egyptians had some methods of birth control too. Equally unpalatable 
24 Feb 2011, 7:40 pm
Vigilans wrote:
Just wrap it in a sheep's bladder condom like they used to do The ancient Egyptians had some methods of birth control too. Equally unpalatable
The ancient Egyptians had some methods of birth control too. Equally unpalatable HIPPO DUNG!
24 Feb 2011, 7:40 pm
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Just wrap it in a sheep's bladder condom like they used to do Cool The ancient Egyptians had some methods of birth control too. Equally unpalatable Laughing
HIPPO DUNG! Laughing
HIPPO DUNG! Laughing
Exactly!
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25 Feb 2011, 9:58 am
Kraichgauer wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Philologos wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
TechnicalPacifist wrote:
The pre-historic hunter-gatherers. Not that they were a culture/civilization, but you get my point.
So beautiful. Typical life span -- 35 years.
And when the game was scarce they starved.
ruveyn
Do NOT get me started. I am resisting.
Why don't you wax lyrical on the beauty of slums and nursing homes?
They are not lyrical material.
ruveyn
A long lifespan is something relatively recent in human history. Speaking specifically about Ice Age Europe, the hunter gatherers (Cro Magnons) very often stood over six feet tall, and had a heavy layer of muscle covering their huge skeletons; a result of their high protein diet. The human population world wide probably never rose above a million people - if that. So it's doubtful there would have been a scarcity of animals to eat, as the human population was so small. Paleolithic Europeans were for the most part migratory, they would naturally follow herds of animals if food became scarce in one place. And because resources appear to have been plentiful, it's unlikely differing tribes or bands of humans regularly fought one another, whether they were fellow Cro Magnons, or Neanderthals. On top of that, Paleolithic art - whether it was the cave art of Lassauex (I know, spelling), or realistic woodworking, such as a life sized lion man discovered in Germany, or an apparently carved from life portrait of a man used as a staff head - was without peer for long centuries after.
So anyhoo, if I have to choose the most beautiful human civilization, it would be the Cro Magnon civilization of Paleolithic Europe.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
.. those were just about my thoughts as well.
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