The Curse of the Methuselah Tree

Nature has a way of saying Enough!

Yesterday while driving in Silicon Valley, I couldn't help but notice all the new hideous and massive structures scaring the landscape.... permanently scaring what had very long been a beautiful, happy, socially sustainable, economically stable, well-off, and both quiet and bustling way of life in the cities and towns east of the Santa Cruz Mountain chain; what had been a place where there was always room for everyone between the wooded dark green mountains and the blue waters of the bay. This stunning project of an arrogant "Manhattanization" of a beautiful place (not to be confused with general growth or the regular skylines of large cities) knows no bounds.

There's no end in sight. Silicon Valley's unelected leaders have become our overlords, dictating what "will be".... "the Wall Street of the West." Of course, none of these new modern aristocrats ever actually construct anything; they don't even add anything besides their "new money." IT didn't even need to be "centralized" in one location; there is no gain to it that I can see. Many around this country, now being confronted with the stark reality of gentrification, now must ask some old questions which are begging for new answers: "What is civilization? What is a good life? What is fairness? What is justice? What is culture?"

Mark Zuckerberg used the following tagline for facebook (where anything he doesn't agree with is an "instant hate crime"):

"Move fast and break things." 

I can't help but recall something that I heard some man say at a lecture a few years ago: "Don't these CEO's realize that they're going to DIE someday!!??" The vast majority of these arrogant materialist overlords pretend that they're believers in the Earth Mother.... Gaia. Next to each new massive Earth-suffocating monstrosity, they set aside a tiny bit of room for a little stretch of grass with a small tree and a big rock to make themselves feel better after raping the Earth. They should be careful of what they wish for, because I don't think they're following anything relating to her. I'd like to see Gaia rise up and show them--as well as bankers, war profiteers, frackers, geo-engineers GMO and plastic bottle producers, strip miners, and anyone who thinks it's a great idea to just pave over the entire planet!--just how weak and puny humans really are, and take back the Earth from them.

Just one gamma ray, EMT attack, or giant Sun flare could knock out all of the satellites... which would then in turn crash all the the computers, electricity, wireless networks and services, streetlights, everything,  and we would be knocked back into the 1700s in one day! A one-punch knockout. We should be humble and grateful for the precious gift of this planet. It's worth more than an entire Grand Canyon of worthless green paper.


"Nature has a way of saying enough
After the pride there comes the fall
After the boom the bust
Remember man that thou are dust, and unto dust"
-- 'The Curse of the Methuselah Tree'






Oldest Tree On Earth: The Curse Of The Methuselah Tree (Nature History Documentary) | Timeline

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On a desolate mountain top in California lives the world’s oldest organism – a gnarled and twisted bristlecone pine. The scientist who discovered the tree gave it the name Methuselah. It was a seedling when the Egyptian pyramids were being built and a mature tree at the time of Christ. It is now over 4,000 years old. The Curse Of The Methuselah Tree shows how the climate and dramatic events – from volcanoes to nuclear tests – over the last 4000 years have affected Methuselah’s growth rings. Archive footage and stunning computer animation are interspersed with Methuselah’s own narration, supplied by poet Roger McGough. The programme also contemplates the tree’s future and reveals the curse that has followed anyone who has dared to work on the tree – an early death.

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This documentary is one of the best things I've ever watched! I loved the poetry and the story told by the tree. Well done! Thank you

-- Angela Avery-Carey, YouTube user 

 

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Earth and Mankind - The uneasy marriage

I recently overheard a Christian say "I open my heart to everyone, since each and every person was created in the image of God." To me, something just isn't quite right about that. Clearly this man has elevated every person on the face of the earth.. above every animal. Jerry Sandusky is--within this mindset--better than that mother cat in Russia who covered an abandoned human baby, which she discovered in the snow, with her fur overnight until help arrived. If she were run over by a car, the "in the image of God" guy might say "it's just dead cat"; but may also compassionately comfort Ted Bundy before his execution.

Just in a simple pragmatic way, a mountain lion is--to an extreme degree--not a threat to a lone hiker, even though it certainly could be physically. In other words, there have been only about a dozen recorded mountain lion killings of humans in the state of California since the 1800s. Still, the media gets so excited every time one is spotted near any urban area. There's a much greater chance of being attacked, or even just harassed, by another person than by any animal even when in the wild. Mr. "in the image of God" is protesting nature and evolutionary struggle itself. There are human predators of every type, all around us if we look. Christians would call this, man's "sin nature."

I don't understand how Christians can believe in two entirely different concepts at the same time. On one hand, all men were created in God's image (inherently good) vs. the "sin nature" concept in which all individual humans are "wretched" by nature (inherently evil). There's even a Christian television program called 'Wretched', in reference to mankind's evil nature. I used "vs." for comparison, but actually those two ideas are commonly just mixed freely together. 

It would seem obvious that the answer would lie somewhere in the middle. Recently while hiking, I came upon a few brush rabbits feeding on a mountain slope with a breathtaking view of San Francisco in the horizon. Those rabbits are not able to comprehend this sight. They can't even see it. Even if these rabbits were feeding upon a mountain slope with a beautiful view of a valley with forest and lake, green land and blue sky on a perfect day.... they couldn't see it, nor comprehend it if they could. Even more intelligent animals like dogs or cats, although we can observe them enjoying the sun and the environment sometimes, really aren't able to comprehend the horizon, or the earth... or contemplate the vast universe or existence itself. Mankind is a little bit special, under the right circumstances.

What would the earth be like if there were no humans? Of course, it would be better off in many ways. However, what good would it be without a person--lets just say a more intelligent and spiritually developed person--to stand on a mountaintop on a sunny day and gaze upon the beautiful sky and horizon, or observe a deer or hawk in the distance? It would seem somewhat pointless. This marriage is both complimentary and destructive.

Recently I was driving amid a new housing development along a mountain slope. In this particular case, these homes were constructed to be a little larger and more beautiful than the typical housing development we see. Each home seemed to have its own special and unique place, elevation, spacing, and setting. These homes were constructed on only one side of a beautiful green valley. Although I wasn't very enthusiastic about this new development, I begrudgingly had to admit that I could see dramatic views of the rugged opposite mountainside which I was unable to see before. Also, the homes were well nestled into the hillside, rather than the "urban jungle" or "suburban sprawl" look. Since the opposite mountainside was part of a park, developers cannot touch it. 

As a consequence of all of this, it was a good marriage of civilization and nature, earth and mankind. Of course, there have been nightmares with commercial high rises constructed on the edge of beautiful parks and neighborhoods. I am not referring to downtown areas in big cities, which have their own scale, and the people who prefer dense urban life; or not even to rural areas in particular. Suburbanites, like vast majority of people, want their cake and eat it too. They want "quiet" and big city convenience. I don't seem to have an appropriate ending to this, so I'll just end by saying that we shouldn't just be indiscriminately paving over the earth. Mankind needs limitations.

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"Forbidden Archeology" - The documentary that drove the scientific establishment nuts!

This is the 1996 NBC-TV documentary entitled 'The Mysterious Origins of Man', which was based on the book 'Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race' (Cremo; Thompson; 1994). It's an open secret that when archeological finds do not fit with accepted norms, they are taken and hidden away, disappear into private collections, or simply disappear period. When an archeologist takes a stand against this unwritten policy, their careers permanently end in a New York minute. When this program aired, many top American careerist-scientists went ballistic. They demanded an apology from NBC, then went running to the FCC. After all, the public isn't supposed to know just how flimsy and subjective that mainstream archeology really is.

One of the tricks in establishing control is by using a Hegelian method by which you create two "opposames," and trying for force everyone to "pick-a-side"; which, in this case, is creationism vs. evolution. It's not even creationism and evolution "as is"..... but a particular type of closed-minded creationism and closed-minded evolution, which makes this a part of the closed-minded religion vs. closed-minded science fiasco that we've had to endure for generations now. There are many other possibilities, which I believe involve elements of both creation and evolution over a much longer period of time.

Michael Cremo's official site

ForbiddenArcheology.com

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