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Post by NFA on Dec 2, 2020 21:15:13 GMT 8
One of the funniest things I have ever read about Australian Aboriginals is a mythical belief that they practiced something called "firestick farming".
What this religious belief proposes is that cute little Aboriginals just wandered around the Australian Bush carrying fire sticks and set fire to grasslands to save time on hunting down and killing food.
Stick a match in it so to speak and when the fire had gone through you had a cooked dinner.
What a crock of bullshit.
Science has gone backward from even the 'shaman' and 'witch doctors' and blame the "weather" on something that no-one can see, ie KARBAN.
I can understand CITY folk, huddled together in their masses against scary NATURE, not understanding the real world but I piss upon so called "scientists" describing NATURAL events in their pre-neanderthal understandings.
Has any current pre-historic post science scientist actually noticed how often LIGHTNING hits the ground?
And unless you've actually witnessed lighting strike and the subsequent fire you can all go and shove your Carbon bullshit up your arse.
EV Vehicles for everyone NOW!
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Post by NFA on Dec 2, 2020 22:10:43 GMT 8
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Post by Struth on Dec 7, 2020 6:32:52 GMT 8
I can assure you aboriginal people were virtual pyromaniacs and still are in many areas.
The real reason is that they see scrubby over grown areas as bad country. Bad country to walk through, it gets too hard to do so, and snakes are harder to spot, and for a number of other reasons. The bush responds well after fire which then attracts animals later on.
So new growth attracts animals,and they used the plants as well, but this practice is not farming, and is not what anyone accept a dickhead with a political point to make would call farming.
If you were semi nomadic, making the nomadic part easier to achieve would be your primary goal.
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Post by NFA on Dec 7, 2020 19:46:15 GMT 8
I can assure you aboriginal people were virtual pyromaniacs and still are in many areas. The real reason is that they see scrubby over grown areas as bad country. Bad country to walk through, it gets too hard to do so, and snakes are harder to spot, and for a number of other reasons. The bush responds well after fire which then attracts animals later on. So new growth attracts animals,and they used the plants as well, but this practice is not farming, and is not what anyone accept a dickhead with a political point to make would call farming. If you were semi nomadic, making the nomadic part easier to achieve would be your primary goal.
but it's only since English settlement that they had access to tinderboxes, matches and lighters.
prior to that they had to carry around live coals they scooped up from where lightning struck a tree.
they had no way of making fire!
same as Aboriginal medicine - feeling crook? can't keep up with us nomads? we've got a nulla nulla that will fix that - wack!
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Post by Struth on Dec 8, 2020 13:59:59 GMT 8
They used to rub two sticks together and chuck it into a handful of spinifex or other highly flammable grasses, and blow....they had that technology.
they could make fire, and they were bloody well into burning everything, still are.
There are some things you learn about your environment over thousands of years, and burning the bush with cool burns was a good idea then and it's a good idea now.
Should be more of it.
Much more.
So when the lightening strike occurs we aren't decimated by the fuel stacked up by Greenies and UN socialist dictate.
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Post by NFA on Dec 8, 2020 16:34:35 GMT 8
2 sticks and a spinifex!
whats wrong with raw bardi grubs?
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Post by NFA on Dec 8, 2020 22:04:56 GMT 8
Australian Aborigines could not light a fire at all.
total bullshit if they say they did.
do it now and put it on camera.. 2 stix and a spinifex.
here.. have a kanberra moth.
make sure they wear possum skin coats though.
particularly in spinifex country
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Post by NFA on Dec 8, 2020 22:18:34 GMT 8
and it is and was the big fat slob 'bigmen' that keep the Australian Aboriginals in the dark ages while the big fat slobs take everything...
and tell goannashit to dumb 'whites' and their own so called people.
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Post by NFA on Dec 8, 2020 22:26:01 GMT 8
be very careful here folk in response.
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Post by Struth on Dec 9, 2020 5:21:40 GMT 8
We'll have to disagree on that.
I have film of very traditional people in the top end doing it from 1972, which of course is way after white settlement but whites didn't need to start fires like that.
But besides that remember how varied the degree of technology was between different groups.
Those that had mixed with Trepang fisherman and other groups for example.
Some most definitely could start fires for sure, using sticks, and I've seen them do it, but even I, who would be one of the most widely travelled in Australia who has studied the aboriginal language groups across the continent would be not confident to say "All" could do it, but some definitely could, and tarring them all with the one brush is a common mistake.
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Post by NFA on Dec 9, 2020 20:17:18 GMT 8
I grew up on the flat plain country which was North of The Murray River and broadly encompassed an area from say Echuca, Deniliquin, Hillston, Hay, Balranald and back to Swan Hill.
Apart from the deep and narrow few rivers that crossed from East to West their were stuff all trees apart from river flood zones with all the rivers originating from the Western slopes of the Great Divide.
I'd still like to see twostix and a spinifex in action though!
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