Not all agricultural societies were cruel to their farm animals. The lives of some domesticated animals could be quite good. Sheep raised for wool, pet dogs and cats, war horses and race horses often enjoyed comfortable conditions. The Roman emperor Caligula allegedly planned to appoint his favourite horse, Incitatus, to the consulship. Shepherds and farmers throughout history showed affection for their animals and have taken great care of them, just as many slave holders filter function and condition for their slaves.

It was no accident that kings and prophets styled themselves as shepherds and likened the way they and the gods cared for their people to shepherd's care for his flock.

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PC: Saravana Prabhu 

முடிஞ்சா அந்த மந்திரவாதி நம்பர் வாங்கிக் குடு... நம்ம society'லயும் ரெண்டு மூணு வேலை இருக்கு...

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கண்ணன் அர்ஜுனனுக்கு பகவத் கீதை சொல்லி அனுப்பிச்சதே, "குரு, தாத்தா, பங்காளி, சொந்தம் பந்தம்'ன்னுலாம் பாக்காத... போட்டு பொளந்துடு... ரொம்பவும் யோசிக்காத... நா சொல்றத மட்டும் கேளு..." என்பதாகத்தான்...

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இந்த சிவராத்திரிக்கு சமந்தா ஆடுதாம்...

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We were not the only humans...

Homo rudolfensis (East Africa)

Homo erectus (East Asia)

Homo neanderthalensis (Europe and Western Asia)

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People were unable to fathom the full consequences of their decisions.

The pursuit of an easier life resulted in much hardship, and not for the last time. It happens to us today. How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars for family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad. What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? No, they double their efforts and keeps slaving away.

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries stand to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.

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Sasikala Karthik Nilagiri  சில வருடங்களாக WhatsApp மூலம் சேலைகள் விற்பனை செய்வதை சொல்லியிருக்கிறேன் அல்லவா... (போன வருடம் கொரனா ஸாரி டிசைன் கூட போட்டிருந்தேனே, ஞாபகம் இருக்கா...)

சசியின் பாஸ் திருமதி Mythili Koyam Gopal ( DSR Sarees ) நேற்று ஒரு வீடியோ போட்டிருக்கிறார்... மகளிர் தினத்திற்காக... இன்று காலை காஃபி குடிக்கும் போது அந்த வீடியோவை சசி காண்பித்தாள்... பல்வேறு துறைகளில் சந்தோஷமாக இருக்கும் பெண்கள் மகளிர் தின வாழ்த்துக்கள் சொல்வது போல... மிக இயல்பான, ஆர்பாட்டம் இல்லாத வாழ்த்துக்கள்...

அனைத்து பெண்களுக்கும் மகளிர் தின வாழ்த்துக்கள்... Cheers...

Women's Day Celebration || DSR Sarees || Singapengal || Happy Women's Day||

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Prior to Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively on the Afro-Asian landmass.

As Sapiens moved to Australia, within a few thousand years, out of the 24 Australian animal species weighing fifty kilograms or more, 23 became extinct. A large number of smaller species also disappeared.

The Maoris, New Zealand's first Sapiens colonisers, reached the islands about 800 years ago. Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 percent of all bird species.

Within 2000 years of the Sapiens' arrival, most of the species unique to America were gone. According to current estimates, within that short interval, North America lost 34 out of its 47 genera of large mammals. South America lost 50 out of 60. Thousands of species of smaller mammals, reptiles, birds and even insects and parasites also became extinct (when the mammoths died out, all species of mammoth ticks followed them to oblivion).

At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 50 kilograms. At the time of Agricultural Revolution only about 100 remained. Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planets' big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing or iron tools.

Unlike their terrestrial counterparts, the large sea animals suffered relatively little from the Cognitive and Agricultural Revolutions. But in the current Industrial Revolution, many of them are on the brink of extinction as a result of industrial pollution and human overuse of oceanic resources.

Don't believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature.

We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.

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Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group.

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Our language evolved as a way of gossiping.

According to this theory Homo sapiens is primarily a social animal. Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction. It is not enough for individual men and women to know the whereabouts of lions and bison. It's much more important for them to know who in their band hates whom, who is sleeping with whom, who is honest, and who is a cheat.

Even today the vast majority of human communication - whether the form of emails, phone calls or newspaper columns - is gossip. So naturally to us that it seems as if our language evolved for this very purpose.

The truly unique feature of our language is not its ability to transmit information about men and lions. Rather, it's the ability to transmit information about things that do not exist at all. As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about their kind of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled.

Legends, myths, gods and religious appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution. This ability to speak about fiction is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.

We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states. Such myths give Sapiens the unprecedented ability to cooperate flexibly in large numbers.

That's why Sapiens rule the world.

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