Category Archives: WHY?
347.WHY DO WE HAVE TO PAY TAXES?
RIDICULOUS TAXES
Taxation has been resorted to in all developed communities to pay for public services provided by the ruler or other form of government. In the Roman Empire tax gathering was farmed out to contractors known as Publicani, who paid the State an agreed sum and then collected what they could.
In England the earliest example of the central government’s attempt to impose a national tax was the Danegeld in the 10th century. Under the Plant agenets, the monarch depended for his income partly on the revenue from the Crown lands and partly from fees collected from his principal tenants in place of the obligation to perform military service on their king’s behalf.
322.WHY DID MAN BEGIN EATING EGGS?
When people are lost somewhere, as in the jungle or on a lonely island, they will try to eat almost anything when they get hungry. In some such way primitive man, in his search for food, must have tried to eat the eggs of the birds. Exactly when this happened, or where, we cannot know, of course.
But we know that the chicken hen has been furnishing man with eggs for food since prehistoric times. In fact, the chicken, which probably originated in the jungles of India, spread throughout the world long before recorded history.
303.WHY DO WE DANCE?
Dance is conversation between body and soul. Before children even learn to talk, and without having seen anyone else dance, they often express themselves naturally through rhythmic movements. Animals also dance! There are birds which actually have group dances, with circling, bowing, advancing, and retreating in unison!
