Is it a cliche if I start with ‘should I start writing again?'

For the people who wonders at the word ‘again’, I used to write a blog with a cliche topic almost all the time. I stopped writing when I turned to a watcher from a reader and I never regretted my decision but when hell is breaking loose in 2020 I thought that what more bad could happen if I resume writing. In a corner of my mind I always believed that everything in the world is connected similar to a butterfly effect, so to write I felt I should start to read again and to read again I needed motivation,  I was waiting for the right moment and I got one last week. 

I was forced into a conversation about politics with an outright right-wing conservative Indian woman from my apartment building while I was cooking a most un desi meal . She always expresses her displeasure that I eat anything but Indian foods, I also discovered that she is against everything I believe about equality and secularism but I restrained myself from arguing about that, would it make sense to argue about secularism and social justice when they are downright Islamophobic?.

After that undesired encounter, I felt I should start reading again but unlike any fantasy shit I had been reading years ago I want to read something that would add some value to my life, so like another sensible individual with working internet I googled and I ended up with ‘Sapiens’. I never realized that I would even question the ‘humanity’ of humans but it happened and I would like to quote a particular para form the book that I would like to give a deep thought about.

“Over the past 10,000 years, Homo sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s hard for us to conceive of any other possibility. Our lack of brothers and sisters makes it easier to imagine that we are the epitome of creation and that a chasm separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged. Even today many refuse to believe it. Had the Neanderthals survived, would we still imagine ourselves to be a creature apart? Perhaps this is exactly why our ancestors wiped out the Neanderthals. They were too familiar to ignore but too different to tolerate.”

Excerpt From: Yuval Noah Harari. “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”. 

Who is God? 

As I continue reading Sapiens I understand that we weren’t the only species in humans but the one to thrive till the 21st century and we lost our DNA brothers as Neanderthals, Soloensis, Denisovans and others (We don’t know how many other species similar to our own yet). A cognitive revolution might be the reason why we are the only humans left; we might have indulged in a genocide that wiped out others or the neurons of others weren’t as wired as ours so they became extinct eventually, we don’t know for sure but all we know for now is Homo Sapiens is the only humans left on the face of the earth for the past 30,000 years, at least. The concept of God or the realization of God should have occurred only after our cognitive abilities allowed us to imagine something that doesn’t exist physically like a river or mountains, that’s a story for another time. 

I wonder what would our perspective of God or someone of that stature be if our fellow genus mates thrived with us since it totally contradicts our belief of God created humans, a male, and a female. I would be thrilled to know if Neanderthals and our other Genus mates will share a similar God with us or a fight for who would be a God or would there be a concept of God in the first place!