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You know what I'm going to do in this edition of the Rancho Radio
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Podtaska? I'm going to talk about the the
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how we got here. You are going to be blown away
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when you read the story from a life carrier son, as to the
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steps that it took and the adventure that finally
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culminated in the appearance of man himself.
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And it was all by design. And you're going to love this
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story. I guarantee you will love this
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story. I'm going to start telling more
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stories from the Urantia Book because the Urantia Book is
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chock full of stories that Blaine, how we got here.
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And it's unbelievable. So hang on, we're going to go
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back in time a million years ago, what life was like for
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mammals on planet Earth over a million years ago.
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You'll love it. Be right back.
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It's a great read. It really is a great read.
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If you look into the middle section of the Arrancha book and
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you find the papers on just before what happened or what was
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going on on planet Earth and for 7080 million years, they're
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trying to get the life carriers are trying to develop and move
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evolution along in a different direction and get it so it can
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produce intelligent human beings with sole potential.
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And in paper 62, we learn about the preceding ancestral origins
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of the human race. Now, mind you, this is not what
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they teach in school. This isn't what today's
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scientists, today's scientists think.
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There's a missing link. And today's science believes
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that evolution is causational without purpose.
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It's the Darwin concept of survival of the fittest.
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That's what led to the the appearance of man.
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But the Urantia Book has a different spin on it, and it
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goes into a lot of details about the work and the effort in the
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time that it took. So let's review from paper 62
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the story of the appearance of the ancestors of man and then
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the appearance of man himself so early in the career of dawn
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mammals. In the treetop abodes of a
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superior pair of these agile creatures, twins were born 1
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male and one female. Compared with our ancestors,
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they really were handsome little creatures.
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They had little hair on their bodies.
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But this was no disability. As they lived in a warm and
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equitable climate. These children grew to be a
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little more than four feet in height.
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They were in every way larger than their parents, having
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longer legs and shorter arms. They had almost perfect
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disposable thumbs, just about as well adapted for diversified
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work as the present human thumb. They walked upright, having feet
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almost as well suited for walking as those of the later
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human races. From paper 62, paragraph three.
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Their brains were inferior to and smaller than those of human
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beings, but very superior to and comparatively much larger than
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those of their ancestors. The twins early displayed
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superior intelligence and were soon recognized as the heads of
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the whole tribe of Dawn mammals, really instituting A primitive
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form of social organization and a crude economic division of
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Labor, this brother and sister made it and soon enjoyed the
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Society of 21 children much like themselves, all more than 4 feet
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tall and in every way superior to the ancestral species.
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This new group formed the nucleus of the mid mammals.
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When the numbers of this new and superior group grew, Great War,
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relentless war broke out and when the terrible struggle was
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over not a single individual of the pre existent and ancestral
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race of dawn mammals remained alive.
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The less numerous but more powerful and intelligent
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offshoot of the species had survived at the expense of their
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ancestors, and now for almost 15,000 years, 600 generations,
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this creature, the mid mammal, became the terror of this part
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of the world. All of the great and vicious
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animals the former times had perished.
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The large beasts native to these regions were not carnivorous,
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and the larger species of the cat family, lions and tigers,
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had not yet invaded this peculiarly sheltered nook of the
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Earth's surface. Therefore did these mid mammals
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wax, valiant and subdue the whole of their corner of
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creation. Compared with the ancestral
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species, the mid mammals were an improvement in every way.
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Even their potential life span was longer, being about 25
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years. A number of rudimentary human
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traits appeared in this new species.
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In addition to the innate propensities exhibited by their
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ancestors, these mid mammals were capable of showing disgust
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in certain repulsive situations. They further possessed a well
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defined hoarding instinct. They would hide food for
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subsequent use and were greatly given to the collection of
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stones suitable for defensive and offensive ammunition.
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As time passed, the natural increase in numbers eventually
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resulted in serious food competition and sex rivalry, all
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of which culminated in a series of internis and battles that
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nearly destroyed the entire species.
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These struggles continued until only one group of less than 100
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individuals was left alive. But peace once more prevailed in
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this lone surviving tribe, built anew its treetop bedrooms and
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once again resumed a normal and semi peaceful existence Soon
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after the completion of their home.
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This couple, veterans of so many struggles, found themselves the
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proud parents of twins, the most interesting and important
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animals ever to have been born into the world up to that time
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for they were the first of the new species of primates,
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constituting the next vital step in pre human evolution.
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Now we're talking about a time period of about 1.3 million
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years to about 1,000,000 years. You had the dawn mammals, the
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direct offspring of the lemur. Like mammals, dawn mammals led
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to the appearance of the mid mammals and a particular parent
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of the mid mammals sort of took over became the tribal leaders
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in this area of of the Mesopotamian peninsula, which as
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they say was jetted out to the Indian Sea.
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And they took over this corner of creation and they started to
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grow. And then there was a huge battle
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among members of this mid mammal family until there was only 100
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left and out of this 100 that survived that were intelligent
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enough to survive, they spawned a new species, one couple, the
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primates. And that's where the story picks
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up. Soon after the completion of
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their home, this couple, veterans of so many struggles,
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found themselves the proud parents of twins, the most
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interesting and important animals ever to have been born
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into the world up to that time. It makes a footnote here that
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modern man and simeons did spring from the same tribe and
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species, but not from the same parents.
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Man's ancestors are descended from the superior strains of the
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selected remnant of this mid mammal tribe.
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Whereas the modern Simeon, excepting certain pre existent
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types of lemurs, Gibbons, apes and other monkey like creatures
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are the descendants of the most inferior couple of this mid
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mammal group. One couple within this mid
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mammal group had twins and they were retarded and they spawned
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the beginnings of the simian tribes, while another couple, a
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more superior couple, gave birth to the primates, a more
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progressive species. So now we talk about the
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primates going back to the birth of the superior twins, 1 male
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and one female. To the two leading members of
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the mid mammal tribes, these animals were of an unusual
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order. They had still less hair on
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their bodies than their parents and when very young insisted on
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walking upright. Their ancestors had always
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learned to walk in their hind legs, but these primate twins
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stood erect from the beginning. They attained a hide of over 5
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feet and their heads grew larger in comparison with others among
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the tribes. While early learning to
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communicate with each other by means of signs and sounds, they
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were never able to make their people understand these new
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symbols. The primates were more human and
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less animal than their mid mammal predecessors.
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The skeletal proportions of this new species were very similar to
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those of the primitive human races.
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The human type of hand and foot had fully developed, and these
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creatures could walk and even run, as well as any of their
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later day human descendants. They largely abandoned tree
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life, though continuing to resort to the tree tops as a
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safety measure at night, for like their earlier ancestors,
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they were greatly subjected to fear.
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The increased use of their hands did much to develop inherent
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brainpower, but yet they did not possess minds that could really
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be called humans. And now, as we read in Paper 62,
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Section 4, paragraph 6, and now, after almost 900 generations of
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development, covering about 21,000 years from the origin of
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the dawn mammals, the primates suddenly gave birth to two
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remarkable creatures, the first true human beings.
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Thus it was that the dawn mammals springing from the North
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American lemur type gave origin to the mid mammals, and these
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mid mammals in turn produced the superior primates who became the
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immediate ancestors of the primitive human race.
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The primate's tribe were the last vital link in the evolution
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of man. But in less than 5000 years not
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a single individual of these extraordinary tribes was left.
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And so now the first human beings were being told about the
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very first human beings. Listen to the way the life
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carrier is described from the year AD 1934 back to the birth.
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By the way, 1934, the year this book was written back to the
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first two human beings. It's just 993,419 years.
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I wonder how that would would fly in in in science
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anthropology. So the human race has been in
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existence dating back from 1934, just under 993,500 years.
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These first two human beings and their descendants reached full
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maturity at 12 years of age and possessed a potential life span
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of about 75 years. Many new emotions early appeared
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in these human twins. They experienced admiration for
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both objects and other beings and exhibited considerable
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vanity. But the most remarkable advance
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in emotional development was the sudden appearance of a new group
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of really human feelings, the Worshipful group embracing awe,
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reverence, humility, and even a primitive form of gratitude.
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Fear, joined with ignorance of natural phenomena, is about to
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give birth to primitive religion.
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Not only were such human feelings manifested in these
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primitive humans, but many more highly evolved sentiments were
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also present in rudimentary form.
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They were mildly cognizant of pity, shame and reproach, and
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were acutely conscious of love, hate and revenge, being also
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susceptible to market feelings of jealousy.
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From Papers 62, Section 5, paragraph 7, very early they
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learned to engage in verbal communication.
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By the age of 10, they had worked out an improved sign and
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word language of almost 100 ideas, and had greatly improved
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and expanded the crude commutative techniques of their
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ancestors. But try as hard as they might,
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they were not able to teach but just a few words and new signs
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and symbols for their parents. When about nine years of age,
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they journeyed off down the river one bright day and held a
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momentous conference. Every celestial intelligence
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stationed on your ranch, including myself, the author
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writes, was present as an observer of the transactions of
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this noontide tryst on this eventful day.
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They arrived at an understanding to live with and for each other,
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and this was the first of a series of such agreements which
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finally culminated in the decision to flee from their
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inferior animal associates and to journey northward, little
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knowing that they were thus to found the human race.
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While we were all greatly concerned about what these two
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little savages were planning, we were powerless to control the
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workings of their minds. We did not, could not
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arbitrarily influence their decisions, but within the
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permissible limits of planetary function we, the life carriers,
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together with our associates, all conspire to lead the human
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twins northward, and far from their hairy and partially tree
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dwelling people. And so, by reason of their own
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intelligent choice, the the twins did migrate, and because
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of our supervision, they migrated northward to a secluded
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region where they escaped the possibility of biologic
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degradation through admixture with their inferior relatives of
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the primate tribes. Shortly before their departure
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from the home forest, they lost their mother in a Gibbon raid.
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While she did not possess their intelligence, she did have a
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worthy mammalian affection of a high order for her offspring,
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and she fearlessly gave her life in the attempt to save the
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wonderful pair. Nor was her sacrifice in vain,
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for she held off the enemy until the father arrived with
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reinforcements and put the invaders to route.
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Soon after, this young couple forsook their associates to
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found the human race. Their primate father became
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disconsolate. He was heartbroken.
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He refused to eat, even when food was brought to him by his
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other children. Life did not seem worth living
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among his ordinary fellows, So he wandered off into the forest,
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was set upon by hostile Gibbons, and beaten to death.
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So the parents of the first two humans met with an untimely
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death because they had enough feelings and they were
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despondent. That's that's an interesting
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story, isn't it? And we'll conclude with this,
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because what does this all mean? What's the end game here?
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What were the end games of all the planning millions and
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millions, 10s of millions of years of planning this eventful
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day when humans would appear with the ability to worship.
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This is what the author says. We, the life carriers on
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Urantia, had passed through the long vigil of watchful waiting
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since the day we first planted the life plasm in the planetary
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waters. And naturally, the appearance of
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the first really intelligent and volitional beings brought us,
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brought to us great joy and supreme satisfaction.
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We had been watching the twins developmentally through our
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observation of the functioning of these seven adjutant mind
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spirits assigned to your ranch at the time of our arrival on
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the planet. Imagine our joy one day when the
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twins about 10 years old, when the spirit of worship made its
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first contact with the mind of the female twin, and shortly
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thereafter with the male. We knew that something closely
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akin to human mind was approaching culmination.
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And when about a year later, they finally resolved as a
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result of meditative thought and purposeful decision to flee from
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home and journey N then did the spirit of wisdom begin to
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function on your rancher, and in these two now recognized human
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minds. So it wasn't their skeleton, it
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wasn't their ability to use Flint.
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It was the development of their mind to work with the spirit
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influences. It was the ability and the
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evolution of mind that determined the first appearance
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of humanity. And what are these spirit
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influences? Well, they start out with spirit
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of intuition. Most animals have a spirit of
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intuition which gives them that instinct to self preservation,
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understanding, cooperation. You see, you ever see the birds
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when they fly and that pattern. Sometimes they follow the
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leader, or you see a bunch of birds where they follow each
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other. That means that their minds are
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capable on some level of cooperation.
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Then comes knowledge, learning to look before you leap.
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And then there's counsel. And then finally, the ability to
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worship. And consequently, because of the
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ability to worship is the reception of wisdom.
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And they say that for these two animals, the wisdom part was in
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their decision, one, to move northward and get out of the
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jungle, and two, to dedicate their lives to one another.
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That was true wisdom and operation, and it was that
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demarcation that substantiated the appearance of the first
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human mind. And that's what they're saying
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here, because the mind is the portal to sole potential.
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You know, The Urantia Book is just full of so many wonderful
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stories, and I really feel compelled to share them with
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you. Even if you're a seasoned reader
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and you've been studying the papers forever, it's it's nice
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to look back and remember some of the great stories that teach
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us so much. Listen, if you've got a
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particular story you'd you'd like us to talk about or some
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section of the Urancha book you can do, so just e-mail me
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