Kalison's blog

Contribution to this week's overblown topic:  On Choices in Sexual Orientation 

When do we decide that someone is a human being? When a person is capable of handling the basic concepts of sex and life? Or is it when they are completely matured-- which I'm told occurs around age 23. Should we accept the bother of a 14 year old like we do a 12 or a 27 year old? What about the 45/57 year old? Are they too old to be human?

I think we can all agree that society is learned and passed down from one generation to the next.  To see the roots of our society, we can look to agrarian cultures from the Neolithic.  Even from the pre-domestication Kebaran period, modern humans used violence as ritualized communication.

 In the beginning, modern man acted as a hunter-gatherer.  Then he settled down to farm (took him a while though) and all hell breaks loose.   Though we had understood domestication for some time, widespread use led us into the agrarian societies which have propelled us into our modern state.

One fine Friday, I was at the rock wall with a friend, attempting to climb to the top for the first time.  As I returned to the bench, he told me,  "You must be the least self-conscious person I've ever met."  I replied, "Not really, I'm just self-conscious about different things."  Like being self-conscious.

This morning I removed a blog I had posted at the beginning of the weekend.  The post had attracted the kind of name-calling and finger-pointing which is counter-productive to communication.  I am sorry I did not delete it sooner.

Not long ago, I read a wonderful book by Mr. Stuart Schlegel.  The work, Wisdom From a Rainforest is an ethnography of the remote mountain Teduray on the island of Mindanao.  I bring this up because I was particularly struck by their dedication to making sure everyone's gall bladder's were "just right" (fiyo)