The Garden of Eden

Daniel Quinn inspired story of the Garden of Eden. What the story of Eden really means. The story of the agricultural revolution.

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Film & Animation

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• daniel
• quinn
• animation
• documentary
• film
• eden
• garden
• agriculture
• planet
• world
• hope
• short
• experimental

[maejinyokai]

@CommonSense2k8

the purpose was power. to have the power to never die, even in times when food was scarce for various environmental reasons. it's the kind of thing that seems like a good idea at the time but it ends up being unsustainable. the originators of the idea didn't imagine what the end result would be.

[maejinyokai]

@beres123 people who are lacking food can no more create a new subsistence model then can a man falling knit a parachute. it takes the comfort of abundant food to experiment with things like more agriculture. ask a competent anthropologist before you go saying such things.

[beres123]

Humans were forced to change the way they were living because it was no longer feasable to continue the nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle. At the end of the Paleolithic age most species of flora and fauna were dying out because of the change to a more temperate climate. This climate was much more suitable for agriculture and the human populace had to adapt to the change and began farming.

[Michkuty]

by gods here he means ufo probably or other life forms

[Claybird121]

Totalitarian agriculture is more work (this is undeniable, it takes 1 calorie of energy to get 2 from farming, and 1 calorie of food to get 4 from hunting and gathering). Farming simply packs all it's return yeild into one big package and gives you way more than you need(which you worked your ass off for) at one moment. Every study shows this and just about all of anthropology agrees.

[tonymassung]

Perhaps it's not that hunter-gatherers abandoned their life style, but that those sensible enough not to abandon it were forced out of all areas except the ones farmer didn't want.

So only a small amount of people at first had to decide to adopt agriculture, and they did so because it was impossible for them to foresee the problems farming would eventually create.

[CommonSense2k8]

then what was the purpose?

didn't realize humans did things that would make life more difficult for themselves...

[griffensnow]

agriculture did not make life easier for humans read a f***ing book.

[shrikechan]

No, gods are a creation of the human imagination. Humans living before recorded history had a very strong connection to nature, they came to understand it and the fact that we were part of it ourselves. Through this understanding, we started to domesticate palant and animal species to improve the quality of living for our fellow humans. Pagan cultures quite obviously had a great respect for nature, they felt that nature was LETTING them use it becuase they had found a way to communicate with it

[zacksanass]

god is a fairy tale.