Art and Culture
Art and culture really is my thing; I am a trained artist and writer and my interests have always been in the creative arts. Art and culture define we humans. Without them, what would we have? From the earliest times, even hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans evolved, we were fascinated by art.
Culture derives from language. We don’t know when hominids began to talk, but it was also long before modern humans evolved. We have always had the hyoid bone and dropped larynx that are required for complex vocalisation. As far back as a million yeas ago, our forebears were talking to each other, which implies the development of culture. Homo erectus might not have had the brain capacity for complex speech but he was certainly communicating.
H. erectus lived in groups and it might well have been there that the very beginning of simple story-telling occurred. We know he collected pretty things, like stones and probably more perishable items. He was perhaps like a young child, in our terms, able to construct simple ideas and concepts and communicate them.
Were some of these concepts the foundation of faith? Faith, art and culture are bound together such that it’s hard to see how one could have one or two without the others. Were the first questions that our forebears asked ‘Who am I? And how did I get here?’
It seems likely that as soon aas we progressed from communicatng simple instructions to each other, to expressing more complex ideas, that these questions must have been asked.
I wonder what H. erectus’ answers were? Did he conceive a Great Being that created everythiing, including himself? Sadly, we shall never know, but I beleive that art and culture, and faith, began with him.
Civilisation
History
- The Reasons for World War Three.
- The enslavement of men: Enkidu and Shamhat.
- The Beginning of Gender
- Sex between men and boys in the Islamic world
- Roman sex was the right kind of sex — and it still is
- Roman Sex is important
- How Jan Sobieski saved Europe from Islam
- Hot Cross Buns–Cakes for the Goddess
- European Culture
- Dar al-Harb: The Islamic stimulus for war.
Humour
- Wot? No Rabbits? – The Brither
- Women and not-women: the masculine female
- Tryst on Februar Fowerteen – A Scots Allegory
- The stove story
- The Ladyboy Trap: What to avoid in TS dating
- The Church of Hedonism
- Summer at Last
- Sticks, Ice-Creams and Specks of Dust
- Slugs and Snails and Tomato Plants?
- Sex Tourism: right or wrong?
- Seumus the dog: a tale of three pies and a pint
- RIP My Lovely
- Pork, Secularism, and Anarchy
- Opening the closed sex market: Happy Men’s Day
- Not having sex kills men: so get some in 2019
- Napoleon was a Big Guy Really
- Mishcon de Reya: Scene from an Imaginary Western
- Manila: Skinny Cats, Transports of Delight and Beautiful Women
- Man-Trap!
- Letter from an American womyn in dystopia.
- Ladyboys: Ten reasons for dating them
- In France, Everything Shuts On Monday
- In France, Everything Shuts at Twelve- (Part Two)
- In France, Everything Shuts at Twelve- (Part One)
- Harm in sex? How?
- Gendarmes, Police and Faulty Speedos
- Fuck This
- Flics: Traffic cops in France
- Feminism: Terminator required; apply within
- Feminism: a toxic social neurosis
- Feminism is a Lie: it’s the Gynocracy again
- Elephant in the Room (and Crocodiles)
- Cursing and swearing: an art form.
- Croutons and Cheese! French Onion Soup 2
- Beautiful boys to Ladyboys; how little has changed
- Bastille Day!
- Attack of the Five Foot Ladyboy
- Archaic Humans Discovered in Scotland
Men
Mythology
Paganism
Religion
- Why Islam Cannot Change
- This Must Stop: Cruelty is evil
- The Realpolitik of Islamism
- The New Atheists, New Age woo & Cultural Marxism
- The Hadith: Sahih al-Bukhari
- The Goddess in The Philippines
- The first Jesus? Sul and Enlil
- The ‘Ontological Argument’= busted
- Something Greater
- Sharia: Halal and Haram
- Secularism: Why Muslims must embrace it
- Qur’an: Read It Yourself
- Merry Christmas!
- Islam: Read all about it right here!
- Islam and the death of freedom
- Inanna and Jesus: a tale of syncretisation
- God proposition: god true or god false?
- Abortion: the egregious slaughter of the innocent
Spirituality
- Time travel and the cutting edge of Creation.
- The Goddess in The Philippines
- Singing the World into Being
- Pursuing the Goddess
- Ley lines: the launch of the New Age movement
- Hot Cross Buns–Cakes for the Goddess