The Earthling

I think we need to figure out why there is so much diversity. Much of our physiology is still determined by the forces of evolution.
Evolution works by matching random mutations with the prevailing fitness landscape. Can that landscape ever become stationary? Can there ever be a finished product?
And fitness landscapes do not only change over time they also change locally. Sometimes evolution presents a bottleneck for the ecosystem temporarily reducing variety, an event which may actually have occurred somewhere in the recent evolution of Homo Sapiens, but the basic trend is towards greater diversity, not less.

So, I ask what is a perfect human? I think you will not find one single solution.

To illustrate this perhaps it could be illustrative to check out

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especially concerning the various subspecies, each tailored to a specific time and place.

I think in time we will see much improvement in one another by way of cultural mixing. In the UK there has never been so many different ethnic food stores on one street as in Mill Road, Cambridge: Polish, Indian, Chinese, Turkish, religious meats (that is kosha, blessed meat), eastern spices and so on. And what is more pleasing is that you will see a mix of cultures and ethnicities shopping within each store. As well, my local night school offers all sorts of ethnic cooking classes which, again, mixed ethnicities take.

Not to forget, the teaching of cultural appreciation has come along way in primary schools. For example, I see a set of toy dolls in nearly each classroom now which features an Indian, African, ginger(?!), Chinese and white doll for the kids to play with. There has also never been such a mix of cultures in the classroom itself. Ten years ago a Muslim child in the UK was the minority in a classroom, but now it is not unheard for them to be the majority in our cities' schools. And, to boot, with the ridiculous levels of political correctness that we have today no one is at risk of accidentally offending any one else.

I think we will learn through time and things like the internet will also help.
You'll have you hybrid in no time and us... well we will probably be pushed into the sea by then... they will have no use for us:perplexed:

Regards,
Dan.

personally i dont see race as being anything other than the way physical characteristics developed as a result of geography and climate. if all the world becomes as climate controlled as the usa, the differences will disappear as we will all be under artificial light instead of some particular amount of sunlight and none of us will have to endure the cold and we will all be breathing recycled chemically treated air.

but the actual differences between people in my opinion comes from social conditioning and accepted belief systems from individual groups-groups who maintain their closed circles. sometimes an individual is born into a group that he has trouble aligning with and is able to find another that matches his preferences and comfort level. when an individual is able to break out of a group he can free himself and choose to accept and become whatever he wishes. he can choose to belong to a larger group and incorporate other aspects and attributes by association.

i believe the major influence on widening our circle as a group will come from the internet and the exchange of ideas it allows between diverse people. i think the earthling is here, william-it's just that he hasnt been recognized yet. he is all of us....

Thanks everybody.

I came upon this line of thought as I pondered those things that define a people. (race). Most country's are steadfastly drawned together in those beliefs they "collectively" adhere to and are maintained allowing them to communicate more freely with each other in a language that is understood by those people. It is when those "people" cross boundaries either they have established, or others bringing them into contact with "other" people who have "other" beliefs is when be conflict.

Some of those beliefs are deep seated such as those established by religion, faith, ethics, morality and so forth. This is why I feel there is a need to eliminate all such beliefs and establish a unified structure not only social but universally genetically. Perhaps we can achieve this socially, but we have not been very successful at that so far because we do speak different languages and communication is difficult. There must be established a universal language, IMO, and once that established we will begin to truly understand each other and over time reach a common understanding the will allow us to investigate the pros and cons of those beliefs, customs, religions, faiths that separate us and once and for all eliminate them all together and create a new unifed reality with no boundaries.

It is almost impossible for me to believe life on Earth evolved from the union of just two people or we evolved from animal. though I do believe we all got here the same way, exterrestrially through an inexplicable designed system much like that in which life is create now from the "impact" of the sperm and the egg it can be associated with an impact of a foreign body with the Earth making the "mixing bowl".

Using this simplicity we can also arrive at those answers that will explain those which preceded us that provided the fuel we needed to sustain us until we arrived at the collective intelligence that will take us to developing those natural, abundant and everlasting technologies that will provide energy until we reach even better technologies. All natural and undisturbed and efficient and inexhaustible.

It is impossible for us to know all the intricacies of the universe and how it maintains it's harmonic structure. IMPOSSIBLE. But we can learn from it without disturbing that structure.

If this Earth were inhabited by one race of people, it would indeed be a different story, but that is just not the case. We all arrived on our "own shooting star" so to speak from where..........................? Now that's a really good queston and one we will never know, nor should we, I think.

As I have mentioned, I get little nuggets of truth everywhere I turn, without realiziing it until it becomes necessary to "need" it. I can only surmise as to how this is done?
It's a matter of connecting the dots in away that cannot be understood; I just know there is "something" that is guiding me.

Now does that make me "special"? NO!!!! I thought it did once and got put in my place, so to speak. Ha. Big time. What it means is we can all be so guided; each and every single one of us. It is that omnipotent! I can't ask you to believe this; all I know it is just so common "sensical", it is impossible to refute in such a way that can be "definitive". No one can do that.

The only way we will survive is by developing a complimentary social structure that includes every single one of us. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. NONE!

It may take a thousand years, I don't know? But I do know we will all be present actively, passively or benignly in that process. I don't know what that means quite yet, but I have feeling it is absolutely true.

Please do feel free to offer your own perceptions. Just please keep them cordial. :a-ok:

Thanks,
William

"It's a matter of connecting the dots in away that cannot be understood; I just know there is "something" that is guiding me."

I understand the feeling of being guided, especially when coincidences seem to line themselves up in such a way that you can learn from it or gain from it. But then again, I am always on the look out for coincidences and patterns, so I am always going to find a few.

Dan.

Thanks, de_budding, but what you must realize my friend you can't and mustn't "go looking" for those "coincidences; they just happen. I tried to do that once and that is what I meant by "being put into my place" Ha. It will literally drive you insane for then you begin to see "signs" everywhere. Just take my word for it. They will occur "naturally" more and more as you "go along" in this tuning up process I have often mentioned. :a-ok:

William

Alright then, I'll take someones advice for once.

Although I must admit, it is fun to pretend that there is reason behind all those daily crazy coincidences. And that, I feel, is the allure of religion.

Dan.

de_budding,

Religion plays on it, sure. No doubt about it. The signs (coincidences) occur everywhere all the time and can be manifested in any number of interaction communication between mind and physical reality. Everything is interconnected, many are just not in sync to realize it. (pre-occupied is a good word). Once one begins to "tune up", they seem as just coincidences. When there is a coincidence, no matter how brief, you will un-consciously log it in memory for use when it is appropriate, or it will tie a loose end together, etc. It is a tuning up of the senses.

Ever been in a conversation with a group of people in which you appear to be paying attention, but are not and all of a sudden someone will say something in which you find yourself "hearing" and then tune back out again? Then later on something arose in which it was retrieved without you "concsiously" trying to retrieve it? In reality what is happening is what the "religious" song AMAZING GRACE manifests "...I once was lost, but now am found..". Although religion alludes to it being more or less a conscious effort on ones part if they believe a certain way. And it does IF that "belief" eliminates "fear", rendering the mind at peace and 'slowing' it down enabling "that interaction process". Even then people have a hard time making the connection, yet there lives begin to tune up to this guidance system. If that belief system uses FEAR itself in it's doctrines, this tuning up process is NOT POSSIBLE, and people remain "lost", as it were; or stumbling aroung in dark as opposed to being "enlightened". Yet there are different understandings to "enlightenment; this one is mine.

William

And are you a religous man yourself William? I surely can't tell.
Dan.

No, but I do learn from it's various interpretations. We can't ignore it in our efforts to learn that which is true. Some of the greatest truthes can be wrapped up in erroneous interpretations. Once one gets on that "path", that which is erroneous slowly disintergrates leaving nothing but the truth, unabridged, uncontaminated, and pure. Thanks for asking. :a-ok:

William