Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Bonobo Troop: To Harbin, Humans As Non-Bonobo Primates, Bonobo-Quaker World

To Harbin Hot Springs ... in minutes ... and a dance on Tuesdays (and Thursdays), and the pools, then sleeping outside, probably on the sleeping deck, under the stars, in beautiful, California weather.


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As non-Bonobo primates, humans have been and are violent, although Quakers seem to have experienced, and perpetrated, very little violence among Friends, in their 350 year history. While Bonobos' minimal violence, over apparently millions of years and tens of thousands of generations, seems shaped by Darwinian natural selection, Quaker's very little violence, among Friends, seems 'shaped' by culture, language and discourse. {See, for example, "The Epistle from the Elders at Balby, 1656" ~ qhpress.org/texts/balby.html, and American Friends' Service Committee ~ afsc.org}.


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As an envisioning process, how might people give rise to a kind of Bonobo-Quaker world or culture, - and vis-à-vis Harbin Hot Springs? {Unique and apart from modernity ... } All three are 'real.' World University and School?


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The Harbin pools ... MMmmmm ...

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