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John Lennon Questionnaire, 1960’s

(From a British teen magazine in the 60’s when John was still a Beatle. Magazine’s name unknown, but could possibly have been RAVE. John filled in the answers by hand.)

MARRIAGE: “Just a name.”

‘IN’ CROWDS: “Do me a favour!”

WAR: “Terrible. No excuse for it.”

POWER: “I haven’t used mine fully yet.”

CLOTHES: “Useful for taking off.”

TELEVISION: “Love it. Sometimes great, sometimes a joke, but I like it.”

DEATH: “The end, daddy-o.”

PAUL McCARTNEY: “Just Paul. Just our Paul..”

ANIMALS: “I love.”

SWIMMING: “Keeps you clean.”

SKY: “That’s where I belong, baby.”

JOURNALISTS: “Fruitcake.”

FANS: “Harmless.”

CIGARETTES: “Cancer.”

VEGETARIANISM: “I’ve not come across it. If people want to eat nuts that’s okay with me. I wish I could do it, the way I feel about animals.”

THE BOMB: “Should be bombed.”

JAGGER: “A good nut.”

AMERICA: “Great possibilities.”

I did the drawing back in February. It is a redraw of the pony drawing above. That pony drawing? I drew that when I was about ~10. I was in a pony instagram drawing competition, and the prompt was "Draw your oc with a band." Well, I only listened to the classic rock radio, so I didn't know any band names, but I did play the Beatles rock band.

In a nearly tragic, prophetic way, Paul is the one to speak up. Who let her in? I did not know the Beatles by name, or had any thoughts about them at that age. I just looked up the sgt pepper cover so I'd know how to draw their uniforms. Until I was 15, I had assumed John was the leader, and he wrote and sang every single song. Did I know? Did I know at age 10 what would happen to me, and I knew that Paul should be the one to speak?

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

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Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

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