The Strangeness of Bees...

For thousands of years, man has held a very close relationship with the honeybee. It is the only known insect that can be "tamed" or domesticated by man. Over the years, many strange beliefs and customs have developed due to this close relationship.

It was believed, in order to maximize their output and keep the bees happy and productive, they had to be included as part of the family. Any event, no matter how large or small, must be "told to the bees". Anything traumatic that might disrupt the harmony of the hive, like a birth, or death in the family, required special measures to be taken. A funeral called for the placement of a piece of Funeral Cake and wine in the hive after they were informed of the sad news. This event also called for giving the bees a formal handwritten invitation to the funeral, lest they take offense and decide to stop making honey, or die out completely.

The bees themself, were seen as the epitomy of a harmonious family relationship, and served as role models for mankind. They have been seen by many cultures as being the reincarnated spirits of past ancestors, and the vessels of long dead souls as they travel to re-birth. They have mystical ties to a plethora of ancient deities, one of the oldest being the ancient Egyptian goddess Ma'at, who symbolised universal harmony and justice. She is often portrayed wearing a necklace shaped like a honeybee. The honey was also used in the Egyptian Embalming rituals. In ancient Greece, the meade from their honey was called the "Nectar of the Gods" and used in strange rituals to the god Dionysis. And in Rome, the goddess Mellona was said to be the incarnation of the hive spirit.

Whatever they may be to us, they have become an integral part of our survival. In these days of "gassing the hive" honey production, where the entire hive is killed off at the end of the production cycle, is it any wonder that we have been affected by such niceties as Colony Collapse Disorder and that bee numbers are now dwindling.

Man's relationship with this insect has shown that we both share the same fate. As they go, so do we.

Witch Hunter Sues for Damages

And now, more news from the Witch Hunts...

The Center for Inquiry, an organization which is trying to stop the With Hunt craze that has enveloped Western Africa, is being sued for $1.3 billion by Nigeria's most notorious witch hunter. The Witch Hunter claims CFI is infringing on their constitutional right to do such things as burn children.

The situation over there is truly desperate. This just highlights how bad it really is, when the population stands behind truly hideous things in the name of morality, and can sue to continue to legally commit atrocities against helpless children.

Read more here...

Supersition and the New Ignorance

I just recently returned from one of my "eye opening" trips, this time celebrating Zombie Jesus Day (Easter) with family. As usual, several things that bothered me came to mind during this trip, spurred on by issues arising with those I have been dealing with for the last few days. I know the world is slowly changing, but it seems change comes awfully slow in certain regions. In these regions people cling to their ignorance with a very religious zeal, even though that sort of thing was actually frowned upon in most Christian texts. North Texas is one of those places. Here, for many people, science means nothing and large segments of the population actually believe we humans co-existed with dinosaurs. They also believe the world is only a few thousand years old, even though actual scientific analysis shows it is far older than we ever thought. Don't even mention Charles Darwin! You might just get run out of town.

These same people give me a load of crap over my beliefs, seeing it as a sort of cross between hippie nonsense and complete Satanic malarkey, neither of which being the case. They shrug off suggestions and opinions given by me as being naive, simple, or even worse superstitious. Really? This coming from people who think that humans walked with dinosaurs with no scientific evidence to prove it. I don't offer any views or opinions that run contradictory to the various known sciences of physics, psychology, and biology. Maybe my interpretation is a bit different, but the basis is still there. I surely would not base my views upon something as vague as "faith" especially when it is a faith given to you by someone else who may not have the best intentions in mind. Surely blind acceptance of a set of beliefs passed down by tyrants (which aren't even religiously accurate) is nothing short of true superstition.

This new ignorance and superstition is highly troubling. What will we do in 30 years as a nation, when we have a large adult population that literally does know anything about the way the world truly operates? What will we do when all they know about history is a distortion of what truly took place? If a scientific principle goes against this superstitious belief, it is simply ignored or worse, discredited. This does not bode well for our future. People like this cannot compete in a world based upon reasoning and true science. On a quantum level, our Empirical World may not be what it seems, but at the Newtonian Level, science is highly accurate. Discredit it and we imperil our very existence.