Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍

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Axiological Atheist, Philosopher & Autodidact Pre-Historical Writer/Researcher, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Anarcho Humanist, LGBTQI, Race, & Class equality.

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Fascinating to see that there are still uncontacted tribes

Early Hominins First Arrived in Southern Europe around 1.3 Million Years Ago Early Homo had gone beyond Africa, 1.8  million years ago in the southern Caucasus, 1.7-2.1 million years ago in China, and 1.5 to 1.3 million years ago in Java. www.sci.news/otherscience...

Early Hominins First Arrived in Southern Europe around 1.3 Million Years Ago | Sci.Newswww.sci.news A new study, published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, helps resolve one of the longest controversies in paleoanthropology: when did early hominins arrive in Europe?

Uncontacted tribe sighted in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active, they seem in search of food, apparently moving away from the growing presence of loggers. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Uncontacted tribe sighted in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are activewww.reuters.com Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, were published on Tuesday by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the banks of a river close to where logging companies have concessions.

I am a philosopher, so challenging ideas is very necessary and normal, to me. I am just as willing to be shown needed correction as I am in offering correction to the ideas of others. #1

Zooplankton study challenges traditional views of evolution Water flea, Daphnia pulex, barely visible to the naked eye, plays a crucial role in freshwater ecosystems and offers a unique window into natural selection and evolution. phys.org/news/2024-07...

Zooplankton study challenges traditional views of evolutionphys.org In new research, Arizona State University scientists and their colleagues investigated genetic changes occurring in a naturally isolated population of the water flea, Daphnia pulex. This tiny crustace...

Prehistoric Pacific Northwest: Shell Mounds, Culture, Religion, Migrations, Languages, Clans, Power/Elites, Inequality, and Slavery www.academia.edu/122102370/Pr...

Prehistoric Pacific Northwest: Shell Mounds, Culture, Religion, Migrations, Languages, Clans, Power/Elites, Inequality, and Slaverywww.academia.edu “Anthropological and genetic evidence indicates that most Amerindian people descended from migrant peoples from Siberia and Mongolia who entered the Americas across the Bering Strait and along the wes...

“Theists, there has to be a god, as something can not come from nothing.” Well, thus, something (unknown) happened, and then there was something. This does not tell us what the something that may have been involved with something coming from nothing. #1

My art Prehistoric Pacific Northwest: Shell Mounds, Culture, Religion, Migrations, Languages, Clans, Power/Elites, Inequality, and Slavery damienmarieathope.com/2024/07/preh...

While I have often impressed some with my skilled words of anger, it is my world of kindness, that has truly changed lives. There is someone somewhere that remembers “you”, simply because you showed them kindness. So as often as you can, strive to be kind.

We all make a difference! Often we wait for others to be friendly, to be kind, to make a difference, or to be a leader. When we have such power all along, may I be friendly, Kind, make a difference, and be a leader of such active humanism, promoting human good….

The wisest thing I have ever done was choose to be kind and support kindness.

#2 Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Ideas of Simplicity and Understanding Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gatherers www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ-w...

#2 Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Ideas of Simplicity and Understanding Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gathererswww.youtube.com Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Conceptions of Simplicity and Grasping How Some Were Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gatherershttps://damienmarieathope.com/2024/06/rethinki...

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Is the truth ever going to be as useful as lying for political reasons?

Liberal is not the same as a Democrat. A Democrat can be conservative, neoliberal, liberal, progressive, etc. Liberal: “willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas”, I am an anarchist-socialist with liberal thinking.

I often struggle for a better world but it is hard when hate is more motivating than love… Shamefully, the world thrives on bigotry and it needs to stop, no matter what style of society it is wrong.

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I've long believed that there's nothing spooky about the universe, and anything that appears spooky is merely a poorly understood natural process. Also, not sure being just intelligent enough to need to invent supernatural explanations makes humans all that smart. More cunning than smart, I think.

What if truth, mattered? Would we be more open-minded, or did you think you were already good, no improvement needed as most do, or do you let “new knowledge” alluded to, get in? #1

If Americanism has taught us anything, it is that this “land” (people claiming colonialism as a birthright) loves bigotry, hate, lying, violence, denial, and unscientific explanations to just about any damn thing that can’t get away fast enough.

The sad history of democracy is one of continued bigotry of elites and slaves, but now with a happy face or less unhappy faces, I should say, for more accuracy, as some non-slaves were a little more equal in a limited kind of way and/or scope.

The greatest lie ever, was the fraud of democracy, from its conceptions in Greece, claiming the freedom to vote, all the while upholding the institution of slavery. We today are sold the lie of capitalism, and the elite that play in space, while children starve in the streets…

I like learning prehistory! I also hate: “Pseudo-science, Pseudo-history, and Pseudo-morality.” So yeah, history is fun, but one must weed through the sometimes added mythology, half-truths, or outright lies. This is even more important when reading religion-related information.

Do good, make no excuses, just do good, the world desperately needs more of this, and if we all do more, we all win. We rise by helping each other.

I do anarchist teaching of prehistory, in that I don’t just make a blog, expecting people to come to me. No, I take all my knowledge and like a gorilla soldier, I force-feed to the world my knowledge, one piece at a time, that is just what is needed. So, I heed that call and teach in public…

I don’t class any religious thinking as primitive but in error to what I see as a natural-only world, that religious thinking then makes up a myriad of non-natural/non-empirical themes/beings, stories, and myths about which group together are called religions.

I see all religions as having shared or similar features or core elements that relate to religious terms Animism, Totemism, Shamanism, or Paganism including Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, or Islam) religious thinking.

I don’t see religious terms Animism, Totemism, Shamanism, or Paganism as primitive but original or core elements that are different parts of world views and their supernatural/non-natural beliefs or thinking.

Nothing is a justified true belief without valid or reliable reason and evidence; just as everything believed must be open to question, leaving nothing above challenge.

I am mainly a prehistorian, 1 million to around 5,000/4,000 years ago. So, while I may understand the past, most don’t. I don’t know a lot of history many seem to commonly know. I am not reading any more books, maybe ever again (not likely), as I am tired from a life devoted to deep study. lol

I fully enjoy the value (axiology) of archaeology (empirical evidence) is knowledge (epistemology) of the past, adding to our anthropology (evidence from cultures both the present and past) intellectual (rational) assumptions of the likely reality of actual events from time past.