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Sapiens is the offspring of Carl von Lynne, a Swedish classifying specialist who, mid-eighteenth-century, made up a new category of Homo, which he labelled Sapiens (Lat: “wise”), apparently to distinct it from the former and to give it a superior touch.
With the help of the evolution theory and the respective backdating his birth a few hundred-thousand years, the Sapiens has since been promoting himself to the pinnacle of evolution, supreme of mankind and crown of creation – latter justly, as he crowns himself with evermore and spectacular self-delusions.

Dividing the planet Earth into a prodigal north, where paranoia and possession complexes are cultivated, and a deprived south whose cultural contributions are mega slums which breed crime and violence, Sapiens is set off a dynamic that will either culminate in the masses of the south overwhelming his northern domains – if so, certainly not in a civilized manner, but more probably like the apocalyptical visions of his science fiction prophets – or the north trying to wipe out the southern problem, which is not going to be pleasant either, considering his ABC weaponry and that his warfares becomes increasingly wicked, cowardly and devastating, not to forget the tendency to try to solve his problems with genocide and mass-murder.
His regular me-culpa-attacks and wallowing in humanisms and self-pities are mere schizophrenia-typical seizures, and as such very short lived.

The more confused and self-estranged Homo-Sapiens gets, the greater his efforts to escape nature and to seek refuge in sciences technologies, particular those which promise to turn him into a robot-like Homo-Artefact - preferably immortal and with Marvel-Superman constitution – and to hide him in virtual/digital/cyber worlds (in case of emergency: on Mars)
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R/P = Reflection/Projection see:“The Philosophy of Thelema”in Metaphysics
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Huh?

mickthinks wrote: ↑Tue Sep 09, 2025 7:03 pmHuh?

This is to say, that Sapiens is an abstruct that runs western civilisation - and about to ruin it as well.

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It doesn't make a LOT of sense to discuss our biological classification as this matter controlled not by science but interplay between science and the rest of society. Forget SPECIES, we can't even accept correct GENUS assignment. There is no good SCIENTIFIC reason for chimpanzees and bonobos to be assigned one genus Pan and another genus Homo for all the hominid species. P. trogdolytes and P. paniscus are about as far from each other as they are from us.

Mind there is a good reason for science to accept this "different genera". Not worth the fight. Remember, JUST over a hundred years since the Scopes Trial.

Some of the other assigned "species" of Homo have been determined not to be separate species, but the evidence for that relatively recent (now that we can map the genome without great expense)

I see no reason why not.

It would be a drag if there were a ubiquitous reality a la Sapiens, as he is not only self-deceptive, but also self-destructive.
One could blame the dual/linear R/P mode of Sapiens and his monotheistic upbringings which nourish his belief to be a separate and superior organism – were there not his intentional and reckless employment of the intellect to justify his aggrandizements, to reason his lack of reason and common sense, to hide his vile motivations and last not least, to conceal his consequent auto-annihilation.

Who is this double-barrelled person?

He seems to be using a simplistic (though not entirely deluded) critique of human history to denounce science.

lol

mickthinks wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 8:40 am He seems to be using a simplistic (though not entirely deluded) critique of human history to denounce science.

lol

Our hands have always been smarter than our heads.

I do not criticise science - but what sapiens does with it.

Occidental science has become successor of the Christian cult by taking over its genesis with a god called “Big Bang” who creates an autonomous existence in form of matter which he hurls through a linear time/space to disappear in a black hole. A rather short-sighted update, considering that the Christian priests (to whom all existence was a bleak hole) left at the end of it at least a space (like heaven & hell) for the emotions of god´s victims (be it because of Christian pity, or because of their need for more room to elevate themselves).
Yet, the priests of science do obviously speculate with emotions too, as they nurture (despite their hole- & other finals) the hope for an everlasting life (a contradiction they cover up with DNA- and time/space-twists) and lure with wonders (phenomena that are not experienced by the psyche-soma relativity) and mysterious rites & symbols, claiming, in good old priestly fashion, that their schemes are universal laws and orders, which of course only the priests understand.
For sceptics, they liken them to those of the market-economics (which everyone believes to understand) thus keeping – if their schemes should fail - the opportunity open, to make a career in the temples of god Mammon (money), who is renown to offer meaning and purpose to unsuccessful priests as well.

During 35 years traveling around the world, i met inumerable Homos that do not suffer the above mentioned hangups of Sapiens i.e. western civilisation, and are (in my opinion) possibly going to outlive his/its autoanihilation.

Homo venerated Nature throughout ages as mother and often as goddess as well. Sapiens began to treat her as an accidental & dumb contraption, and proclaimed himself, destined by genetics or genesis, to be her governor, and of course of Homo too – as a matter of fact, of anyone who is not ruthless and stupid enough to rape, plunder & poison his mother.

That she is getting sick: has fever, respiratory problems, blood (water) infections, skin cancer – just to mention a few symptoms similar to those manifesting in the organisms of mammals – does not concern the slave of greed & possessions who gives a damn about the wellbeing of Nature, as long as he can make a buck from her corps.

Nor can she expect much help from the coryphaei of his sciences, as it was them who furthered her degradation, and are thus not very likely to abandon concepts that they have been feeding & feeding on.

To Homo ConsciousNess is natural, particularly to those living in harmony with Nature – whereas Sapiens spins ever more psychological, neurological and philosophical theories about ConsciousNess, thus demonstrating his increasing alienation and confusion.