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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

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ORIGINAL: xssve

I think I better wuickly add that my comments about the health of the gene pool should in no way be mistaken as a rationale for any sort of institutional eugenics scheme, other than a general philosophy regarding economic externalities: i.e., a certain rate of random mutation is part of the natural order of things, over time, the beneficial ones tend to be selected in, the detrimental ones, selected out - whereas arbitrarily subjecting entire populations to starvation and/or malnutition, and/or saturating the environment with heavy metals or other neurotoxins does damage to the gene pool on much larger, and more difficult to rectify scale, often with long term consequences, on the order of centuries.

Once a psychopathic pre-adaptation is triggered, for example, it may be heritable for up to 20 generations.

Dude, I scored perfectly on my verbal SAT's, won a spelling bee on TV when I was six and took the Mensa test..... and I can honestly say I don't know what the hell you are talking about relevant to this thread.

Maybe I am just hormonal and my brain is foggy, ya know how it is for us girls.?[:o]

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ORIGINAL: xssve

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

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ORIGINAL: xssve

I think I better wuickly add that my comments about the health of the gene pool should in no way be mistaken as a rationale for any sort of institutional eugenics scheme, other than a general philosophy regarding economic externalities: i.e., a certain rate of random mutation is part of the natural order of things, over time, the beneficial ones tend to be selected in, the detrimental ones, selected out - whereas arbitrarily subjecting entire populations to starvation and/or malnutition, and/or saturating the environment with heavy metals or other neurotoxins does damage to the gene pool on much larger, and more difficult to rectify scale, often with long term consequences, on the order of centuries.

Once a psychopathic pre-adaptation is triggered, for example, it may be heritable for up to 20 generations.

Dude, I scored perfectly on my verbal SAT's, won a spelling bee on TV when I was six and took the Mensa test..... and I can honestly say I don't know what the hell you are talking about relevant to this thread.

Maybe I am just hormonal and my brain is foggy, ya know how it is for us girls.?[:o]

I hope your back is more entertaining than your front.

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ORIGINAL: Aswad

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ORIGINAL: LadyAngelika

It's not a poor response, it's a humourous one ;-)

Mea culpa, then. From the tone of previous posts, I didn't catch the humor in this one (I'm near-sighted with regard to humor, anyway). Smileys help ameliorate the lack of tone of voice in online "speech." I should try to use them a bit more frequently, myself. I'll take the half liking as a compliment; merci beaucoup, et «bonne année» à vous aussi.

Health,
al-Aswad.

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

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ORIGINAL: xssve

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

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ORIGINAL: xssve

I think I better wuickly add that my comments about the health of the gene pool should in no way be mistaken as a rationale for any sort of institutional eugenics scheme, other than a general philosophy regarding economic externalities: i.e., a certain rate of random mutation is part of the natural order of things, over time, the beneficial ones tend to be selected in, the detrimental ones, selected out - whereas arbitrarily subjecting entire populations to starvation and/or malnutition, and/or saturating the environment with heavy metals or other neurotoxins does damage to the gene pool on much larger, and more difficult to rectify scale, often with long term consequences, on the order of centuries.

Once a psychopathic pre-adaptation is triggered, for example, it may be heritable for up to 20 generations.

Dude, I scored perfectly on my verbal SAT's, won a spelling bee on TV when I was six and took the Mensa test..... and I can honestly say I don't know what the hell you are talking about relevant to this thread.

Maybe I am just hormonal and my brain is foggy, ya know how it is for us girls.?[:o]

I hope your back is more entertaining than your front.

LOL. Wow, you sure got me...when not using multisyllabic words your wit is truly amazing. I bow to the creativity of the insult you just put forth. [sm=bowdown.gif]

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Honestly, I think big words get in the way of communication. They're a useful shorthand between specialists. Outside of that, they're just a way for insecure people to proclaim how much education and intelligence they think they have.

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ORIGINAL: zephyroftheNorth

I think this is the thread he is referring to. You may want to gather food and drink together, this is a long one.  http://www.collarchat.com/m_2388292/mpage_1/tm.htm

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ORIGINAL: Aynne88
The gun at  the camera pic was taken by my Man he thought it was hot and was a joking respone to the psssst....your gun isn't loaded comment made to me by Loki last night.

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Then he has apparently not comprehended the content and purpose of that thread, as was expected.

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

Who got spunk in your eyes? Sie müssen für den Mund schießen.

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ORIGINAL: LadyAngelika

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Honestly, I think big words get in the way of communication. They're a useful shorthand between specialists. Outside of that, they're just a way for insecure people to proclaim how much education and intelligence they think they have.

I absolutely totally agree 100% with this statement. One way intelligence can be demonstrated is when you can explain something you are in expert in laymen's terms to a group.

- LA

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The patriarchy is just shit men came up with to do while women were caught up in their drama.

Nice example of misogyny - if I look at history, I see that a huge percentage of the 'drama' is a male creation.

::eyeroll::  Way to be the cliche there.

That I acknowledge that women have their own drama -- and sorry, but the basic point that was being made, that women are their own worst enemy and that men don't have to do much at all to keep women down, is painfully true -- doesn't mean I am incapable of recognizing that men have their own drama.

Recognizing that men and women are different from each other in a broad, general sense, and that we have different ways of thinking and being that produce different results is not misogyny.  Even if one happens to be noting the negative consequences of certain types of behavior common to women.  Recognizing that women have flaws, both individually and collectively, is not hateful.

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ORIGINAL: Aynne88

Hmm. How about we just acknowledge that we are very different women, and stop the sniping bullshit, both sides of it, and debate without namecalling and you don't owe me an apology, just perhaps we could be both be a bit more civil or at least not so quick to attack without giving the posts of each other actual consideration and taking them for what they are? It's better than this.

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ORIGINAL: Loki45


Actually, that's not accurate. It's got more to do with men easily over-powering women and children and thus all of them dying. It's an act of chivalry -- an out-dated concept, in my opinion, thanks to feminism. (Ain't feminism grand?)

The explanation can be found here.

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But maybe that's just me.

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You're responsible for talking in cliche, and stereotypes. Own it, man, and stop whining.

What exactly do you mean?  I mean precisely.  Because I don't know what you're talking about.  You're communicating nothing to me with this comment except disrespect; there's nothing substantive to these statements.

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Actually, that's not accurate. It's got more to do with men easily over-powering women and children and thus all of them dying. It's an act of chivalry -- an out-dated concept, in my opinion, thanks to feminism. (Ain't feminism grand?)

The explanation can be found here.

Reading that, it shows that the women and children were already in the lifeboats before the soldiers stopped the panic. So there was already a sense of 'women and children first' if not that exact phrase.

My opinion is that, on a biological level, men are expendable. Extremely expendable. If there were only a thousand people left in the world, the species would have a fair chance at survival if only one of them was a fertile man in his young 20's. He could impregnate 999 women in a few years, maybe less than that.

If you had one woman and 999 men, even if she had a baby each year, starting at age 18, and somehow managed to survive postapocalyptica to age 68, you'd have 50 offspring. With one man and 999 women, same reproductive rate, you'd have 50,000 offspring. And don't question my math, I'm counting on the fact that there will be a few sets of twins [8D]