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

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> It sounds like a plausible hypothesis (I would tend to agree), but I
> don't
> know what the data says about it.

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.

I have no idea where I saw that, except that it was probably on the
Internet somewhere.

> Homosexuality has been found quite often
> even among solitary insects, so I don't know if the complexity of the
> society is important here (although social animals have of course more
> occasions to bond than solitary ones, so homosexuality is more commonly
> seen among them).

Well, you never know, this data might have been modified to match a
pro-homosexual's line :)

> Although if you look at it, the Bonobos are the really intelligent ones,
> having completely replaced violence with sex. What's more intelligent
> than
> that? ;))))))

I still reckon the Internet is a pretty advanced technology :)

> Note that I understood your point and agree with it. I just thought this
> remark was meaningful too :)) . I've always admired the Bonobos, being
> the
> only non-violent high primates in existence.

Do they have violence against other species who aren't especially happy
about their continued existence as something other than their lunch? 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?

>> I hope I don't look like a biologist to you :)
>
>
> Not yet ;))) .

:) Don't think it'll happen for a while yet, given that I'm not studying
it :)

> That's the problem with life: there are so many interesting things
> everywhere in the world that a single lifetime is far from enough.

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 :)

> With a
> little luck, I'll become enlightened enough in this life to remember this
> incarnation when I get to the next one ;))) .

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, or that you speak the word of god and you get an
(unwanted?) cult following :) )

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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