Human Lives…Longer or shorter? In this modern age of ours we keep telling ourselves how clever we are and that our lives are so much better than our forebears…..But is this true or are we kidding ourselves? A brief glance at our past in our chronicles or writings tell us that our lives are actually getting shorter not longer! Let us first look at the earliest writings and the lengths of their lives… The earliest Kings List Sumerian Cities. Alulim…………………………………….Ruled 28,800 years Alalgar……………………………………Ruled 36,000 years Enmenluanna…. Ruled 43,200 years Enmengalanna…. Ruled 28,800 years Dumuzi………………………………… Ruled 36,000 Ensipazianna……………………………..Ruled 28,800 Enmenduranna… ……………………….Ruled 21,600 years Ubartutu… ………………………………Ruled 18,000 years. It is interesting to note that these lengths of reigns are all multiples of 3600! The Gods of Egypt…. Ptah………………………………………..ruled 9000 years. Ra………………………………………….Ruled 1000 years Shu……………………………………… Ruled 700 years Geb…………………………………………Ruled 500 years Osiris……………………………………….Ruled 450 years Seth …………………………………………Ruled 350 years Horus… …………………………………….Ruled 300 years Patriarchal life spans from the Bible. Adam………………………………………….lived 930 years Seth…………………………………………….lived 912 years Enos ……………………………………………lived 905 years Cainan…………………………………………lived 840 years Mahalaleel………………………………………lived 895 years Jared…………………………………………… lived 962 years Enoch was 365 and was taken ………………………………… Finally Lamech…………………………………lived 777 years. When we check on the length of our first human man Adam we find that he lived for 930 years and Noah the flood hero lived for 950 but the record for the longest lifespan was Methuselah who lived for 969 years. The Sumerian Kings were granted their reigns because they were the Priests of the temples and their reigns are recorded in the annals of Sumeria. Just to name a few we have in the city state of Uruk we have a king that reigned 324 years and his son that followed on the throne reigned for 420 years. The most famous ruler was GILGAMESH who sought immortality from the gods but dies after ruling 126 years. Interestingly when we check in the Bible {Genesis} the lengths of lives of the Patriarchs we see a corresponding drop in the lengths of lives too. So over the centuries we have seen that mans lifespan has been decreasing. Checking this hypothesis we find that TERAH…Abrahams father lived for 205 years and Abraham himself lived for 175. This is of course 75 years longer than the most optimistic person in our day and age but can we look at WHY our lives are getting shorter…not longer? Perhaps it is not surprising that when we look at the history of agriculture we see changing patterns of methods of production. When we realize that in our recorded history there was much less people in the world and the natural environment had not been spoilt then as the populations steadily increased the methods of production also changed. Obviously this had a detrimental effect on ourselves as we applied more and more fertilizers and chemicals to increase production of food over time. It appears to be obvious that the chemicals-fertilizers and the poisons we inhale from the atmosphere and the poisons we drink in our water daily must take its toll on our bodies through the generations and centuries. The fact that our food is so processed that almost nothing we eat or drink today is in any way natural and is not going to increase our longevity. Obviously since industrialization we now push our bodies beyond what was a natural life and the cancers we develop are from that industrialization. Now we rush to the Doctor for pills because our bodies start to fall apart in our early ages most times by our fifties….if we can reach a mere 80 years we are thankful….. Long gone is the pure air of Adams time…long gone is the pure rain that fell from the sky…..and long gone is the pure earth…filled now with pollution and chemicals. There is nothing we eat or drink that is Natural anymore and with the scientists now Genetically modifying our food supply who knows what detrimental effects this will have. I wonder what the scientists are playing with now that we have mapped the HUMAN GENOME….and what germs the scientists are concealing in the Laboratories…….. James A. Foster 04-08-2014
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:45:00 +0000
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