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