The Human Condition

Why are we here? It appears that we have 80 to 90 years to follow our instincts and learn what we need to learn.  We need nourishment to survive and we need to sleep about 8 hours a day. We need to drink water and eat foods that contain the vitamins and minerals and protein we need to sustain ourselves. We learn this from our parents and our own experiences. We live in families for support.

Many of us believe that there is a chance that we may continue to exist after our death. There is some evidence that there is a Creator, who promises our immortality. Many of us have been taught that we have a mission from God to perform during our lives. The behaviors taught to be aligned with this God are usually worthy and logical given our circumstances if we are following Judeo-Christian principles.

Our instincts tell us that despite the lack of proof that we are here to do God’s Will, we are willing to channel our actions to comply with whatever we conclude God’s Will for us might be.

We are a highly complex mammal we can track back to 1,500,000 BC to 200,000 BC. 

The earliest fossils of anatomically modern humans are from the Middle Paleolithic, about 200,000 years ago such as the Omo remains of Ethiopia and the fossils of Herto sometimes classified as Homo sapiens idaltu.

Neanderthals lived from 200,000 BC until 30,000 BC.

"Fire was first controlled by humans anywhere from about 230,000 years ago to 1.4 or 1.5 million years ago, depending on which evidence you accept as definitive". Evidence for the use of fire by Homo erectus beginning some 400,000 years ago has wide scholarly support.

Our best guess on the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years.  Earth is thought to be 4.5 billion years old. Dinosaur bones have been dated at 231 million BC. It’s thought that Dinosaurs became extinct in 66 million BC.

We have always been required to work to provide for ourselves. We are born with physical abilities that have enabled us to find and secure food and water. The rest has been trial and error. We learned what to consume and what to avoid the hard way. We learned what was dangerous and what to avoid from others and from our own experience.

We are capable of learning and are responsible for learning what we need to know. If you are “responsible” and want to act in your best interest, you will make sure you are getting the nutrients you need.  If you own a single family home, you can learn how to maintain it.  If you work in a job, you should enjoy it; if you don’t, you need to find a job you do enjoy, so you can be successful at it and become a contributing member of a team.

You can learn skills as they relate to venues.

Skills: Competence, Energy Level, Mission, Persistence, Attitude, Need to Contribute, Judgment, Common Sense, Worldview, Knowhow, Street Smarts, Knowledge, Focus, Motivated Abilities, Resilience, Honesty, Integrity,

Venues: Health Maintenance, House Maintenance, Work Relationships, Work Opportunity.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader