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Rafts: Early World Drifting on Rafts:
"If you were part of the very early world that drifted on rafts, with currents and with the winds, you just rarely came back to anything that you were familiar with. The patterns were very, very large and you just kept sweeping on, and you could say goodbye to those people and you never ever saw them again. Because you were saying goodbye to people and never seeing them again, the phenomena really of life and death-- you are alive and they are alive, but you never see them again-- so life and death to those people did not have the distinction that it had later on. If you never came to anything that you recognized, you would not then recognize any really fundamental pattern. Furthermore, there were some patterns of stars in the sky, but you didn’t get the same orientation of them ever again, so you don’t tend to recognize that pattern. If you were, however, some of the early people who went offshore and accomplished some of the sailing with the beginning of the ability to navigate tow windward, when sailing ships first developed the ability to work to windward, you could retrace your steps, and if you did retrace your steps, you would then begin to get the same star patterns that you had before. You wouldn’t have any islands or anything around you, but one thing that would be familiar is that you would get the same
