Friendship re: 6-3 g*d's virtual kitchen worldwide

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Friendship:
a primal attitude from within reaching out towards the universe in detail -
mutual recognition of being interested in each other -
selfish and sharing at the same
time ...

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A child eats
a certain berry and it dies.
You eat the heart of a valiant enemy and you become strong.
There we have two bits of cause and effect association, one true, one false.
We call the system of cause and effect in the mind of a savage, FETISH;
but fetish is simply savage science.
It differs from modern science in that it is totally unsystematic and
uncritical and so more frequently
wrong.

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In many cases
it was not difficult to link cause and effect,
in many others erroneous ideas were soon corrected by experience;
but there was a large series of issues of very great importance
to primitive man, where he sought persistently for causes
and found explanations that were wrong but not sufficiently wrong
nor so obviously wrong as te be
detected.

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It was
a matter of great importance to him
that game should be abundant or fish plentiful and easily caught,
and no doubt he tried and believed in a thousand charms,
incantations and omens to determine these desirable
results.

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Another great concern of his was illness and death.
Occasionally infections crept through the land and men died of them.
Occasionally men were stricken by illness and died
or were enfeebled without any manifest
cause ...

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This too
must have given the hasty, emotional mind of primitive man
much feverish exercise.
Dreams and fantastic guesses made him blame this,
or appeal for help to that man or beast or thing.
He had the child's aptitude for fear and
panic ...

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Quite early
in the little human tribe,
older, steadier minds sharing the fears,
sharing the imaginations, but a little more forceful than the others,
must have asserted themselves,
to advise, to prescribe,
to command!?

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This
they declared unpropitious and that imperative,
this an omen of good and that an omen of evil.
The expert in fetish, the 'medicine man', was the first priest.
He exhorted, he interpreted dreams, he warned, he performed
the complicate hocus pocus that brought luck or averted
calamity ...

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Primitive religion
was not so much what we now call religion as practice and observance,
and the early priest dictated what was indeed an arbitrary
primitive practical
science.

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We are
still very ignorant
about the beginnings of cultivation and settlement in the world,
although a vast amount of research and speculation has been given
to these matters in the last onehundredandfifty years.
All that we can say with any confidence at present is
that somewhen about 30,000 and 15,000 B.C.,
while the Azilian people were in the south of Spain
and while the remnants of the earlier hunters were drifting northward
and eastward, somewhere in North Africa or Western Asia or in that great
Mediterranean valley that is now submerged under the waters of
the Mediterranean Sea, there were people who,
age by age,
were working out two vitally important things:
they were beginning cultivation and they were domesticating
animals.

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They were also
beginning to make,
in addition to the chipped implements of their hunter forbears,
implements of polished stone.
They had discovered the possibility of basketwork and
roughly woven textiles of plant fibre,
and they were beginning to make a rudely modelled
pottery.

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They were entering
{without being aware of it?}
upon a new phase in human culture
just as we are now!

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Primitive religion,
science and ideology, have progressed from guesswork and make believe
towards a greater level of exactness and are developing a worldwide network of cooperation and friendship.
I hope ...

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