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I wrote a paragraph the other day questioning the need for kosher food after refrigeration had been invented, and it led me to think of the role food played in the ancient days, and why much of the content of ancient writings was about food and food supplies.
It makes me wonder if the edifices that were created as temples were not to worship invisible gods, but to store food in the winter or it's environmental equivalents like dry seasons and natural disasters. The Pueblo Indians in the American West did the same thing. They didn't build their buildings to live in, but to store food in.
In my opinion, the basic reason for wars, especially now, is that there isn't enough food for the villagers in the off seasons, and the young people were sent out a'viking not only to get food and trading supplies, but to acquire property and slaves.
"Heaven" was called the "land of milk and honey". That turned into political dogma, and then they started fighting wars in the name of gods and heroes. Food preservation, as the real reason for war was kept a secret in writing when that came along.
Modern civilizations in Europe, Asia, and the United States who have automobiles and trucks don't seem to remember how long it takes to walk even a short distance by foot with a load on your back. Fifteen miles a day is pushing it. Double that means you're too exhausted to fight when you get to the stated destination That's what happened to Custer on the Little Big Horn. Massacre.
Now, think about the expense of 150,000 armed dudes with logistical support being sent to a country 10,000 miles away, and then start second war simultaneously a hop, skip, and jump away with 100,000 more professional killers, and you're close to having a bankrupt America just to show Islam (who has already figured it out), that we can't be attacked without vengeance, and we're broke. Almost a failed state. Aiiiyyeeeeee!
I'm sorta not much in the mood for writing recently. My water pipe from the paved road to my house is leaking again. I found where it had washed out, and I tried to dig up the ground to where the leak is, but I got so hot and tired I had to stop until it cools down some. I might have to wait until early in the morning. Being old don't make this any easier.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
