| Questions. Where does it lead to? Answers. | | | | solutions were sought. The creatures may have tried |
| My brother, who is a couple of years older to me and | | | | to feed on whatever they could easily obtain. A good |
| many in the family thought, was wiser than me in | | | | guess is that they fed on whatever nature offered |
| many ways, once told me when we were very young, | | | | them without resistance. Most likely the feed was in |
| that if you want to know something you have to | | | | the form of grass, leaves or wild berries that grew in |
| simply ask a question. You will naturally look for an | | | | the nature. They may have just dropped off to rest |
| answer and if you are keen enough you are sure to | | | | wherever and whenever they felt tired. It must have |
| get the answer. That answer prompts you to ask | | | | been peaceful then. |
| more questions and more answers will follow. Asking | | | | Can we call that the vegetarian age? Every body |
| questions and seeking answers are the fundamentals | | | | who needed to feed itself was a vegetarian. Such a |
| to research and innovation. | | | | wonderful scenario! Vegetarians of today would take |
| Mankind has been asking questions since creation. | | | | a lot of inspiration from that. |
| Today's world of technology and knowledge was born | | | | How is it then that several creatures turned to eating |
| out of questions that were asked thousands of years | | | | meat? What was the motivation to kill another |
| ago when language or even signs did not exist. Still | | | | creature and eat its flesh? It cannot be a need to feed |
| mankind managed to ask questions. Whom did they | | | | itself with flesh. There was surely an abundance of |
| ask the questions? To their own selves? They | | | | green stuff for the sparse population. |
| wanted to solve their needs of survival, so they looked | | | | The answer lies elsewhere. With the basic challenge |
| for answers. Found them. Innovation was made. | | | | of feeding resolved, there came about a change in the |
| They then went on to seek refinement to their new | | | | thought process for some of the creatures. The |
| found answers as they faced newer challenges. | | | | thought of superiority. The creatures began to realize |
| Discoveries took place. | | | | the difference between each other's physical size |
| This brings us to a far more profound question. Where | | | | which gave birth to a thought process that led to |
| did the questions come from or why was there a | | | | feeling superior or inferior to one another. With the |
| need for questions in the first place. Did the answers | | | | feeling of superiority came the thought to dominate |
| just automatically surface or ….. | | | | those who were smaller in physical size. This led to |
| The questions and the answers are all there in the | | | | conflict and also resistance. |
| nature. At least that is what the wise said. Mankind | | | | Conflict and resistance gave rise to anger that |
| was born to seek so he is an eternal seeker of | | | | became uncontrolled and typically led to confrontation |
| unknown. | | | | which resulted in killing. Eating of flesh was actually |
| Going back to the pre-historic days when Man may or | | | | incidental. It was the creature's mind that was evolving |
| may not have existed, but our archeologists and host | | | | through a complex process and that process |
| of other knowledge seekers made sure we know that | | | | continues to the present days where the urge to |
| there existed a time when living being did walk, swim, | | | | dominate others still exist and by that the world is so |
| fly, crawled and did many other things on the face of | | | | full of anger, confrontation and resistance resulting in |
| this planet. That was the Creature Age. Those | | | | hatred, destruction and many a times killing. |
| creatures also asked questions and sought answers. | | | | Vegetarians may prescribe that we go back to our |
| They surely felt hungry. So the need to feed arose. | | | | roots. Even if that was possible, can we reverse the |
| They felt tired. So the need to rest arose. These | | | | thought process set in millenniums ago? |
| probably were the early challenges of living and | | | | |