My mind is uneased Thinking abt those beavers again Also folk memories of the primordial conditions of life
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Do you imagine stories of giants might originate from cannibals? Taller would likely have eaten lineages of shorter men, a terrible sight & grim prospect to see a towering being on the horizon. Children later spooked by the stories might be unwittingly descendents of the former.
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This passage is becoming evergreen to me, The answer is that we have changed--are changing, and we scarcely are aware of how Evolutions of man ellude our consciousness because of an ingrained sense of continuity.pic.twitter.com/33B2rqlZo6
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Continuity is built on a sort of spirituality, which is to say the sense is not false, insofar continuity doesn't include physical We feel connected to forebearers no matter how mutated we become, ways we no longer resemble them, their lives are a necessary prerequisite to ours.
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You can't escape the presence of their threads on our being, no matter how much modernity wants us to snip them off!
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