Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.

En réponse à Tristan McLeay :


>Come to think about it, I think I might have seen something somewhere
>suggesting that for advanced societies, having homosexual creatures can
>be advantage: they won't be able to have offspring so rather than
>spending time making sure their children aren't dying, they're spending
>time hunting food/learning etc.
Possible indeed. A report I had seen on TV was talking about some studies
of homosexual chimpanzees, and had found the (originally surprising)
conclusion that usually the homosexual ones tended to be the strongest ones
(especially among females). It was surprising for biologists because they
thought that the strongest ones would naturally want to be the reproducers
and would easily win the fights for it.


>Well, you never know, this data might have been modified to match a
>pro-homosexual's line :)
LOL. Somehow I doubt it. Especially since this data is far from
"pro-homosexual". It's just *not* anti-homosexual :)) .


>I still reckon the Internet is a pretty advanced technology :)
But is having technology a sign of true intelligence? Wouldn't being able
to live in balance with your environment and not at the edge of destroying
your own species a better sign? Are "primitive" human tribes which still
use stone age technology actually less intelligent than us? But those are
rather philosophical questions :)) .


>Do they have violence against other species who aren't especially happy
>about their continued existence as something other than their lunch?
AFAIK the Bonobos have only few predators in their natural environment, and
are left alone most of the time :) .

>  or
>just run and hide? And does it suggest that if we successfully forbade
>people inclined to violence from reproducing, and had no violence
>anywhere, that violence would become extinct in humanity, too?
Nope, as it is not how it works. When I said, "replacing violence with
sex", I truly meant it. Look at chimpanzees: if one has something (a banana
for instance) and another one wants it, what will happen? Usually a fight,
with the strongest taking the prize. Among the Bonobos, what will rather
happen is that the one longing for what the other has will *offer* itself
to the other, and when it has successfully satisfied the other one, will
take the prize as payment ;))) . So it's not just about extinguishing
violence. If violence is here, it's because it fills a gap, a necessity (I
don't know if you ever saw the anime Gundam Wing, but despite the fact that
it's a cartoon, it is actually a full treatise on why humanity is a violent
species, and what is necessary to get rid of the violence :) ). what you
have to do is find something to replace it. The Bonobos did. Can we?


>If you don't mind not having the experiences, you could always go the
>Matrix route and upload info to your brain... though I guess first we
>need that technology :)
Not sure if I want a computer to mess up with my brains :))) . As it is, I
find it enough already ;))) .


>Sounds like a plan :) (Except when you come back and mention something
>that happened in your previous life and people decide you're insane and
>lock you up,
Who says that I'd be stupid enough to talk about it? If I really remember
my former life, I'll remember also how people are ;))) . I will just talk
about what I know, not about how I got the info ;))) .

>  or that you speak the word of god and you get an
>(unwanted?) cult following :) )
Sounds like a nice plan this ;)))) . I could use a cult around me (if only
because it provides free labour force ;))) ). Mmm... the Bonobo cult...
sounds like a philosophy of life quite a few people would like to follow
;))))) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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