How the Neanderthals became the Basques By David Noel From a combination of old and new evidence, it appears that at last we have a satisfactory answer to the age-old question of ‘What Happened to the Neanderthals?’. If the current reasoning is correct, their descendants are still with us, and we call them the Basques. [...]
I have always been attracted to the Russian psyche. Perhaps it is so because my mother came from near the Ukraine and spoke Russian, apart from her native German. But as a teenager I was fascinated with Russian literature and read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky avidly. Later, I named my two most favorite cats “Tolstoy†and [...]
I believe that all humans, because we are descended from a Divine and Perfect God, recognize Truth instantly, whether they are educated or uneducated, intelligent or unintelligent, literate or illiterate. It is not a matter of Religion or philosophical beliefs that have been instilled in us by our parents, our society or our governments. It [...]
In the last chapter we saw the beginning of a world economy without borders. This started in 1949 after the Second World War with the formation of GATT (General Agreement of Trades and Tariffs). The purpose of GATT was to dismantle the local laws that all countries had and still have, which protected the small [...]
You will recall that in the last chapter I stated that three social characteristics were necessary for the economic catastrophe that is facing the world today: The Great Depression of 2008. You will recall also that I made an analogy between sea life in the ocean and life amongst humans. Here are the three social [...]
Almost every great thinker in the history of mankind has concluded that the universe is composed of a physical part and a spiritual part. The spiritual part is the foundation for the world’s religions. Almost everybody concludes that they are part of the physical universe, although some thinkers maintain that the entire universe is spiritual [...]
Deception can be met at all evolution levels: it is used in nature routinely by animals and it is also used on a daily basis by humans. When used by humans, deception is mainly negative. Politicians make use of it and create a general state of confusion which enables them to mess with their voters’ minds.
Communication, which is made of “symbols that point to areas of life”, enables people to make horrendous errors, often ending in social, economic or personal disasters. People should remember at all times that words are not “real” as per se.
