INSTANT KNOWLEDGE
By
WOODROW WILSON, JR.
HISTORY –
RELIGION – GOVERNMENT & Contemporary POLITICS opens with an overview of human
history from prehistoric man to the time when records began to be kept.
Calendars and historical data are used to present a chronological listing of
ancient history. The main aspects are expanded to review the origins and
dimensions of contemporary religions and to examine modern American democracy
and economic structures. The record is framed with observations on the complexities
of government bureaucracy, taxation, social regulation, teenage sex, violence
and the decline of our society.
About the Author
Woodrow Wilson, Jr. is a retired professional engineer. As a
writer he is without credentials. In fact he characterizes himself as a
landless American peasant. This is an informative book.
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Man's ability to
think, determines his destiny.
Economic,
professional and social success are directly linked to knowledge.
This is a collection
of information and essays.
The purpose of this
book is to promote thought.
The author is without
credentials, a landless American peasant.
Dedicated to the
memory of:
James Donald
Beck
And
William
Edward Blake
INSTANT KNOWLEDGE
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Prehistory: OUR ANCESTORS EMERGE
Homo sapiens: The precise
origins of Homo sapiens, the species to which all humans belong, are subject to
broad speculation based upon a small number of fossils, genetic and anatomical
studies, and the geological record. Most scientists agree Man evolved from ape‑like
primate ancestors in a process that began millions of years ago. Current
theories trace the first hominids (human‑like primate) to Africa,
where two lines of hominids appeared five to seven million years ago. One was Australopithecus,
a social animal, who lived from perhaps four to three million years ago, and
apparently became extinct.
The second was a human line, Homo
habilis, a large brained specimen that walked upright and had a dexterous
hand. Homo habilis appeared some 2.5 million years ago, lived in semi‑permanent
camps and had a food gathering and sharing economy.
Homo erectus, our nearest
ancestor, appeared in Africa probably 1.75 million years ago and began
spreading into Asia and Europe soon after. Homo erectus had a fairly
large brain and a skeletal structure similar to present day Man. Homo
erectus learned to use fire and presumably had primitive language skills.
The final brain development of the Homo sapiens and also that of our sub‑species
Homo sapiens sapiens, occurred between 500,000 and 50,000 years ago,
either in one place ‑ probably Africa ‑ or possibly simultaneously
and independently in different places in Africa, Europe and Asia. There is no
doubt all modern races are members of the same sub‑species, Homo
sapiens sapiens.
The spread of mankind into the
remaining habitable continent probably took place near the end of the last ice
age, to the Americas across a land bridge from Asia, and to Australia across
the Timor Straits.
Earliest cultures. A variety of
cultural formulas ‑ in tool making, diet and shelter, emerged as early
mankind adapted to different geographic and climatic zones. Three basic tool‑making
traditions are recognized by archaeologists as emerging and coexisting from one
million years ago to the near past; the chopper tradition, found mostly in East
Asia, with crude chopping tools and simple flake tools; the flake tradition,
found in Africa and Western Europe, with a variety of small cutting and flaking
tools; and the biface tradition, found in all of Africa, Western and Southern
Europe and South Asia, producing pointed hand axes chipped on both faces.
Later biface sites yield more refined axes and a variety of other tools,
weapons and ornaments using bone, antler, and wood as well as stone.
Only sketchy evidence remains for
the different stages in Man's increasing ability to cope with the environment.
Traces of 400,000-year-old
covered wood shelters have been found at Nice, France. Scraping tools at
Neanderthal sites (200,000 ‑ 30,000 BC. in Europe, North Africa, the
Middle East, and Central Asia) suggest the treatment of skins for clothing.
Sites in various parts of the world show seasonal migration patterns and the
use of a wide range of plant and animal food sources.
Evidence at the Nice site,
reveals, painting and decoration flourished along with stone and ivory
sculpture after 30,000 years ago; 60 caves in France, and 30 in Spain, show
remarkable examples of wall painting. Other examples have been found in
Africa. There is also evidence of ritual cannibalism by Peking man, 500,000 BC
and of ritual burial with medicinal plants and flowers by Neanderthals at
Shanidar in Iraq.
The Neolithic Revolution: Sometime
after 10,000 BC. Among widely separated human communities, a series of dramatic
technological and social changes occurred and are summed up as the Neolithic
Revolution. The cultivation of previously wild plants encouraged the growth of
permanent settlements. Animals were domesticated for work and as a food
source. The manufacture of pottery and cloth began. These innovations
permitted a huge increase in world population and also Man's control over his
existence.
MAJOR WORLD
RELIGIONS
1. HINDUISM: 1500 BC.
Founded: ca. 1500 BC. by Aryan
invaders of India, where their Vedic religion intermixed with the practices and
beliefs of the natives.
Sacred Texts: The Veda, including
the Upanishads, a collection of rituals and mythological and philosophical
commentaries; a vast number of epic stories about gods, heroes and saints,
including the Bhagavadgita, a part of the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana; and a
great variety of other literature.
Beliefs: There is only one divine
principle; the many gods are only aspects of that unity. Life in all its forms
is an aspect of the divine, but it appears as a separation from the divine, a
meaningless cycle of birth and rebirth (samsara) determined by the purity or
impurity of past deeds (karma). To improve one's Karma or to escape samsara by
pure acts, and/or devotion is the aim of every Hindu.
2. JUDAISM: 1300 BC.
Founded: ca 1300 BC. Abraham is
regarded as the founding patriarch, but the Torah of Moses, is the basic source
of the teachings.
Sacred Texts: The five books of
Moses constitute the written Torah.
Special sanctity is also assigned
to other writings of the Hebrew Bible. The teachings of oral Torah are
recorded in the Talmud, the Midrash and various commentaries.
Beliefs: Monotheistic. God is
the creator and absolute ruler of the universe. Men are free to choose to
rebel against God's rule. God established a particular relationship with the
Hebrew people; by obeying a divine law that God gave them, they would be
special witness to God's mercy and justice. Emphasis is on ethical behavior
and careful ritual obedience as the true worship of God.
First century Judaism embraced
several sects, including, Sadducees, mostly drawn from the Temple priesthood,
who were culturally Hellenized. The Pharisees, who upheld the full range of
traditional customs and practices as of equal weight to literal scriptural law
and elaborated synagogue worship and the Essenes, an ascetic millenarian sect.
Messianic fervor led to repeated,
unsuccessful rebellions against Rome (66 ‑ 70 and 135 AD.). As a result,
the Temple was destroyed, and the population decimated.
To avoid dissolution of the
faith, a program of codification of law was begun at the academy of Yavneh.
The work continued for some five
hundred years, in Palestine and Babylonia, ending in the final redaction of the
Talmud (ca. 600 AD.), a huge collection of legal and moral debates, rulings,
liturgy, Biblical exegesis, and legendary materials.
3. BUDDHISM: 525 BC.
Founded: about 525 BC. Reportedly
near Benares, India.
Founder: Guatama Siddharta (ca.
263 ‑ 480), the Buddha, who achieved enlightenment through intense
meditation.
Sacred Texts: The Tripitaka, a
collection of the Buddha's teachings, rules of monastic life, and philosophical
commentaries on the teachings, also a vast body of Buddhist teachings and
commentaries of which are called sutras.
Beliefs: Life is misery and
decay, and there is no ultimate reality in it or behind it. The cycle of
endless birth and rebirth continues because of desire and attachment to unreal
"self." Right meditation and deeds will end the cycle and achieve
and achieve Nirvana, the Void, and nothingness.
4. ISLAM: 622 AD.
Founded: 622 AD. in Medina,
Arabian Peninsula.
Founder: Mohammed the Prophet,
ca. 570 ‑ 632.
Sacred Texts: Koran, the words
of god.
Beliefs: Monotheistic. God is
creator of the universe, omnipotent, just and merciful. Man is God's highest
creation, but limited and commits sins. Satan, an evil spirit, misleads him.
God revealed the Koran to Mohammed to guide men to the truth. Those who repent
and sincerely submit to God, return to a state of sinlessness. In the end, the
sinless go to Paradise, a place of physical and spiritual pleasure. The wicked
go to hell.
The earliest Arab civilization
emerged by the end of the 2nd. Millennium BC. in the watered highlands of
Yemen. Sea borne and caravan trade in frankincense and myrrh connected the area
with the Nile and the Fertile Crescent. Nomads shared the central region with
a few trading towns and oases. The Minaen, Sabean (Sheba), and Himyarite states
successively governed.
By Mohammed's time (7th. century
AD.), the region was a province of Sassanian Persia. In the North, the Nabataean
Kingdom at Petra, and the Kingdom of Palmyra, were first Aramaicized, then Romanized,
and finally absorbed like neighboring Judea, into the Roman Empire.
Wars between tribes and raids on
settled communities were common and were celebrated in a poetic tradition that
by the 6th. Century, helped establish a classic literary Arabic. In 611 AD.
Mohammed, a 40-year-old illiterate Arab of Mecca, announced a revelation from
the "one true god," calling on him to repudiate pagan
idolatry. Drawing on elements of Judaism and Christianity, and eventually
incorporating some Arab pagan traditions (such as reverence for the black
stone at the kaaba shrine in Mecca). Mohammed's teachings, recorded in the
Koran, forged a new religion, Islam (submission to Allah). Opposed by
the leader of Mecca, Mohammed made a hejira (flight/escape) to Medina in
the north, in 622 AD. And this became the beginning of the Moslem lunar calendar.
Mohammed, and his followers,
defeated the Meccans in 624 AD. This was the first jihad (holy war), and
by the time of Mohammed's death in 632 AD. nearly all of the Arabian peninsula
accepted his religion and secular leadership.
Under the first two Caliphs
(successors), Abu Bkr (632 ‑ 34) and Omar (634 ‑ 44), Moslem rule
was confirmed over Arabia. Raiding parties into Byzantine and Persian border
areas developed into campaigns of conquest against two empires, which had been
weakened by wars and disaffection among subject peoples (including Coptic and Syriac
Christians opposed to the Byzantine orthodox church). Syria, Palestine, Egypt,
Iraq, and Persia, fell to the inspired Arab armies. The Arabs, at first
remained a distinct minority, using non‑Moslems in the new administrative
system, and tolerating Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians as self‑governing
"People of the Book," whose taxes supported the empire. Under the Omayyad
caliphs (661 ‑ 750), the boundaries of Islam were extended across North
Africa and into Spain. The Frank, Charles Martel, stopped Arab armies in the
West at Tours in 732. Asia Minor, the Indus Valley, and Transoxiana, were
conquered in the East. The vast majority of the subject population gradually
converted to Islam, encouraged by tax and career privileges. The Arab language
supplanted the local tongues in the central and western areas, but Arab
soldiers and rulers in the East eventually became assimilated to the native
languages.
CHRISTIANITY
Religions indigenous to particular
Middle Eastern nations became international in the first three centuries of the
Roman Empire. Roman citizens worshiped Isis of Egypt, Mithras of Persia,
Demeter of Greece, and the great mother Cybele of Phrygia. Their cults
centered on mysterious (secret ceremonies) and the promise of an
afterlife, symbolized by the death and rebirth of the god.
Judaism, which had begun as the
national cult of Judea, also spread by emigration and conversion. Judaism was
the only ancient religion west of India to survive. Christians who emerged as
a distinct sect in the second half of the first century AD. revered Jesus, a
Jewish evangelist, executed by the Romans at the request of Jewish authorities
in Jerusalem ca. 30 AD. Christians considered Jesus, the Savior (Messiah,
or Christ) who rose from the dead and could grant eternal life to the
faithful, despite their sinfulness. Christians believed Jesus was an
incarnation of the one god worshipped by the Jews, and that he would return
soon to pass final judgment on the world.
The missionary activities of
early Christian leaders such as Paul of Tarsus, spread the faith, at first,
mostly among Jews or among quasi‑Jews, attracted by the Pauline rejection
of difficult Jewish laws such as circumcision. International persecution as in
Rome under Nero in 64 AD. on grounds of suspected disloyalty failed to disrupt
the Christian communities. Each Christian congregation, generally urban and
plebeian of character, was tightly organized under a leader (bishop),
elders (presbyters or priests), and assistants (deacons). Stories about
Jesus (the Gospels) and the early church (Acts) were written down
in the late 1st. and early 2nd. Centuries AD. and circulated along with letters
of Paul.
An authoritative canon of these
writings was not established until the 4th. Century AD.
A school for priests was
established at Alexandria, Egypt, in the 2nd. Century AD.
Its teachers (Origen ca. 182 ‑
251) helped define Christian doctrine and promote the faith in Greek‑style
philosophical works. Pagan Neoplatonism was given Christian coloration in
works of Church Fathers such as Augustine (354 ‑ 430).
Christian hermits, often drawn
from lower classes, began to associate in monasteries, first in Egypt (Saint Pachomius
ca. 290 ‑ 345), then in the West (Saint Benedict's rule ca. 529).
Popular devotion to saints’ spread, especially devotion to Mary, mother of
Jesus.
Under the Roman Emperor,
Constantine the Great (he ruled 306 ‑ 337 AD.) Christianity became the
established religion of the Roman Empire. Pagan temples were expropriated.
State funds were used to build huge churches and support the church hierarchy.
Laws were adjusted to accommodate Christian notions.
By the end of the 4th Century AD.
Pagan worship was banned and severe restrictions were placed on the practice of
Judaism.
The newly established church was
rocked by doctrinal disputes, often exacerbated by regional rivalries, both
within and outside the Empire. Chief heresies (as defined by church councils
backed by imperial authority) were Arianism which denied the divinity of Jesus,
Donates; which rejected the convergence of church and state and denied the
validity of sacraments performed by a sinful clergy, and the Monophysite
position denying the dual nature (god and man) of Christ.
Monarchain; an adherent of
one of two anti-Trinitarian groups of the 2nd and 3rd Centuries AD. teaching God
is one person as well as one being.
Trinitarian; one who
subscribes to the doctrine of the trinity; the unity of Father, Son and the
Holy Ghost as three persons in one Godhead, according to Christian dogma.
Mormon: “the Trinity is
not a triune God as Christians believe but three Gods."
Historically: "Yahweh"
was a savage god of war and one of several deities worshipped by the Israelites.
It took seven centuries for this partisan god of war to evolve into the
almighty "Yahweh;" proclaimed by Hebrew prophets to be
the one and only God.
It is unclear why "Yahweh"
allowed the Israelites to worship a number of
other gods for centuries prior to making it known to them; "Yahweh"
is the one and only god.
According to scripture as related
in the Hebrew Bible, “Yahweh” revealed the Ten Commandments to
Moses in 1300 BC. The Ten Commandments form the basic moral component of “Yahweh’s”
covenant with the Israelites. Emphasis is placed upon
ethical behavior and ritual obedience. By obeying divine law of
the covenant only Jews would be witness to God’s mercy and justice.
This covenant condemned
the rest of mankind to an existence without God.
Since then and with "Yahweh's"
protection, Jews have suffered enslavement by the Egyptians, defeat by
the Babylonians, division of their kingdom, decimation by the Romans,
desecration and destruction of their temples, defeat by Islamic forces whose
rule of Jerusalem lasted nearly 400 years during the First Millennium AD. and
almost 700 years during the Second Millennium, official oppression by the
Spanish and by the Russians, a pogrom of genocide by the Germans and a number
of wars with their Arab neighbors that continue to this day.
How the rest of the world has
survived without God's protection is enough to muddle one's thoughts.
If one accepts the theorem “God
made a covenant with Israel,” then the assumption of the Jewish religion
by Gentiles is without validation.
Every known culture; has
proclaimed their gods to be genuine, and all other gods to be
false.
Mans perception affirms an
origin of life beyond mortality. An arrogance of life created by supernatural
forces; “To rise above all other forms of existence.”
In every known culture Man’s insecurity
and abject fear of the unknown has given rise to mythical protectors and
omnipotent deities to shield him from all real or imagined pestilence
and suffering. Noted exceptions: earthquakes, tornadoes, floods,
famines, epidemics, lions, tigers, sharks and alligators. All-powerful
protectors, who recognize fidelity and reward the faithful with everlasting
life! Man reverently refers to these omnipresent and all
encompassing guardians as gods.
All religious dogma places
emphasis upon ritual obedience. The abundance of religious rituals is
mind-boggling! Rituals to appease the gods have required human
sacrifice: virgins to be dumped into volcanoes, the heart of an enemy to be
burned, human body mutilation, circumcision of babies, the sacrifice of
animals, the offering of food, plants, flowers, the climbing of a mountain,
ascending a hill, tolling of bells, blowing the horn of a ram, running around a
rock, throwing pebbles, praying at sacred locations, praying positions, praying
times, praying directions, wailing, covering one=s head, uncovering one=s head, washing one=s feet, touching the right
hand, kissing a ring, wearing of prayer shawls, using prayer beads, wearing
prayer boxes on one=s
arm and forehead, fasting, dieting, bathing in sacred rivers, the use of cows
to guide funeral processions on the path to heaven and the use of Rowan wood or
holy water to chase away evil spirits, as we close the book, snuff the
candle and ring the bell. Apparently, some gods had a sense of humor.
Acknowledging Mans ability
to invent mythical protectors for all occasions an accurate count of past and
present gods is not possible.
Modern day Man continues
to be indoctrinated with the mythical idea of a religious deity that shall
provide the faithful with protection from all pestilence and absolution from
all personal responsibility.
Scientists assert the
universe came into existence 14 billion years ago.
Our sun is one of 200
billion stars in our galaxy.
Astronomers report there are 100
billion other galaxies in the known universe.
The archaeological record
indicates "Homo erectus," our nearest human ancestor appeared
in Africa, probably 1.75 million years ago.
There has been no scientific evidence
to support the Hebrew theology; "In the beginning, God created
man."
Atheist counter; "In the beginning, “Man created
God.”
Creationism draws strength
from today=s
conservative mood and from politicians who have no misgiving about pandering to
notion that has no basis in fact.
Woodrow Wilson, Jr.
HOMOSEXUALITY
Church and State encourage us to believe
homosexuality is an aberration that should be eradicated. In the Land of
Sheep, the masses allege everyone is a creature of God. However, lacking the
capacity for rational thought religious fundamentalists exclude homosexuals and
in some cases pork and certain shellfish.
Evolution is the result of Nature’s experiments.
Birth doctors have delivered babies with two heads, variable finger and toe
counts, abnormal torsos, limbs, multiple nipples and other anomalies including
conjoined or Siamese twins.
The strong or utilitarian survive; the weak perish.
Nature guards against the reproduction of anomalous traits or undesirable genetic
combinations by omitting or limiting the ability to reproduce.
One theory posits homosexuality is Nature’s way of
limiting reproduction.
Woodrow Wilson, Jr.
TEEN‑AGE SEX
The continuing task of
bureaucracy to regulate social and sexual behavior of the population has now
seized upon relationships between younger women ("teenagers")
and older men 20 years old or older. Government regulators ignore biological
laws of nature and arbitrarily establish age parameters for social and sexual
intercourse for the general population, particularly, the underclass.
Bureaucrats have unlimited
government resources to finance the meaningless research used to support their
agendas; example "in two out of three births to teen‑age mothers,
studies indicate the father is 20 years old or older." The intent of
this statement is to imply urgency and a social problem of great magnitude.
Actually, it's a typical example of government misinformation; teen‑age
includes 13 thru 19 years of age. The statement implies tacit approval for
births fathered by those under 20. Another survey cited found 65 percent of
teen‑age mothers age 15 to 19 had children by men who were 20 or older?
“So what?” Yet another study indicates most babies born to teenage mothers are
fathered by adults. In America, adulthood ages 18 thru 21 is a variable fixed
by today's political agenda. Data presented fails to show the percentage of
teen‑age mothers considered to be adults.
To show actual data would lessen
public acceptance of the regulators' claim.
In California the push is to
prosecute men 21 or older who have sex with underage girls (15 or younger).
The state of Georgia recently increased its criminal penalty from 1 year to 10
years in prison. The benefit of increasing taxpayer burden by 10 times is
unclear. Florida passed a statutory rape law that specifies unacceptable age
gaps; "Is the state mandating breeding parameters?" Some
states say they want to prevent such relationships but fail to define why. Is
it an attempt to strengthen social control by restricting sexual conduct? The
regulators stated goal is less to imprison the fathers than to make them
financially responsible for their children? (Translation, perpetuate the
criminal justice system).
"Men are going to have to learn
that these girls are off‑limits," said Patsy Ann Kurth, a Florida
state senator.
If a teenage girl gets knocked‑up
by an unaccountable teen‑age boy; that's considered Acute."
Officials never acknowledge
existence of individual responsibility. To do so would lessen their need to
regulate.
Fortunately for the taxpayer,
efforts of the social regulators are not without obstacle.
Prosecutors are encountering
difficulty in trying these cases, particularly when young mothers refuse to
cooperate. Another legal dilemma; in practical minded states such as
Pennsylvania and Hawaii, the age of consent is 14 years of age.
"Female attraction to a
male that is stronger, a provider, and in most cases older, is nature's
natural law of selection."
The natural function of the
female of every species is to reproduce. In our society it’s a given: ”the
female will reproduce." Our obsession to regulate teen-age sexual
activity is a social dilemma resultant from our inability to control or to
enforce selective breeding.
In our culture breeding
parameters vary. It's unclear how or who determines the age of consent. What
seems to be of greater significance is who authorizes the act: government,
church, parents or peers. One's personal choice seems to be irrelevant.
The importance of virginity as
fancied by parents and other non-participants is mind-boggling. It's unknown
what prize awaits those who can actually select a mate for a virgin and
orchestrate the newcomer's sexual transition into womanhood.
But for those who fail to
sanction this one time event, there's emotional melt‑down, hysteria, a
sense of betrayal and catastrophe? Virginity has no known renovation or
revival. There’s no second chance. It's impossible to expunge
the event!
Scare tactics warning of possible
life threatening diseases, emotional scarring and social ostracism for
unmarried sex are coupled with guilt to encourage abstinence from sexual
activity. The result being many confused teen-agers plagued with guilt while
continuing to respond to natural biological urges.
Attempts by social regulators to
substitute mythology for natural instinct have always failed.
Woodrow Wilson, Jr.
GUN CONTROL
"This year will go down in
history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our
streets will be safer, our police will be more efficient, and the world will
follow our lead into the future."
ADOLF HITLER 1935
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