Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java. Beyond Ourselves By Lowell Kirk Life begins simple enough. And so it did for man, untold eons ago. Innocently, spontaneously, with simple pain and uncomplicated struggles.
Life ends simple enough.
And so it did for tribes, and cities, and nations, and empires. Life ebbed and flowed, with quiet and sudden violence. Between Birth and Death lay the violent struggles within the minds of nations within the hearts of men, which gave rise to language, and scribbling, for means to achieve some small measure of immortality. And so for six millenniums, give or take a few, preserving thoughts with language, Mankind made a stew. Some minds engorge themselves upon this stew with strange delight.