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Sure. I don't disagree with this.

Correlation isn't meaningless. It's a mistake to assume causation, as you said. It's definitely mistake to jump to conclusions based on a correlation....

Why would racism pertain to the quarterback position, but none of the other positions? I'd be happy to believe it, it just doesn't make any sense.

What sort of incentive system would explain why dimorphic animals are usually not monogamous? I'm asking. It's not just primates, btw. Social stabilit...

I'd appreciate it if you'd refrain from assigning views to me that I did not express.

This is starting to derail, but I did think it was funny.

No, I haven't. The name suggests that instincts are dynamic? I suppose that's possible. I've speculated that the reason Homo Sapiens picked up monogam...

No. It's just white males between 32 and 43 years old. It was confirmed by NASA, and the Russian space program discovered the same thing. Does that se...

I've never heard that. It's kind of stupid because NFL quarterbacks don't call the plays. They don't have to be very intelligent.

This actually started because of a little stray factoid. The reason most NFL quarterbacks are white isn't what you'd expect. It's not a history of rac...

So are you agreeing that biology suggests we shouldn't be monogamous, but we've somehow overridden that? The OP question was simply whether that actua...

That's true. Human babies do require more care. Why couldn't a community of women handle it? There are very few people on this forum who are capable o...

It doesn't just come down to statistics. There's a theory for why monogamy and monomorphic sexes tend to appear together. The evidence is strong enoug...

I don't think patriarchy answers the question, though. Patriarchy doesn't entail monogamy. A harem allows a male to guarantee patrilineal descent. Aga...

Well, gorillas seem to have survived pretty well using that reproductive system. They've been doing it for 7 million years, so I assume it has the pot...

Children of a harem system thrive. Why would monogamy allow us to care for children any better? What the non harem system allows is egalitarianism. Wh...

Why not just have harems like gorillas? The whole point of our larger size is to run off other males, but instead we gang together in large groups. Ma...

I'll check it out, Thanx!

Really? I don't think we're that out of proportion to the dimorphism of other primates. Are we?

Whether we manifest the vision of monogamy or not, a fair chunk of western culture orbits the idea of monogamy, if only serial. My question is why?

You're saying we lean toward monomorphism? If that's true, that would explain it. But we sure don't look monomorphic (except for the occasional androg...

That may be. I suppose the question would then be: why did it ever come up at all? Biologically speaking, it probably shouldn't have. Does this imply ...

We might eventually set up mines on the moon for He-3, a potential fuel source for fusion power. Here Very sci fi.

:up:

It sounds like you have a theory about the mechanism. Since holes open up in the field during a shift, we'd get a little more radiation than we normal...

We know that variability in the electromagnetic field affects the whole atmosphere. It has an impact on weather, so the statement you posted, is just ...

Void and chaos could be the same thing. If you're mind can't grasp anything because of the lack of form, for all practical purposes, there's nothing t...

@"spirit-salamander" This isn't true. Here. All should be aware that pointing to today's weather as a sign of climate change is a mistake. We're alway...

Eh, only a slave interprets a book the same all the other sheep do, toeing the line.

Why would you?

Sure. They thought the end of the world was at hand.

Very witty, yes. Does it gain us an ally or make the opponent dig in their heels? What exactly do you want from the exchange? The gratification of pis...

I'm actually one of the illuminati.

I googled it.

If there was a society building scheme there, it was later edited out. Roman Christians didn't need help building a society.

That and the Old Testament, yeah.

He said they were like whitewashed tombs: appearing upright and clean on the outside, but full of decadence on the inside. Don't take it personally. H...

What kind of society do you think he envisioned?

I don't think of Jesus as trying to provide social architecture. There was no need for that in his world. His target audience was oppressed and full o...

Do you have nonlinguistic experiences? I don't think everyone does.

This is rank theology.

The way we carve up the world is probably a reflection of our make-up, physically, psychologically, culturally, etc. To understand our language, an al...

Exactly.

This is a criticism of Davidson's version. Supposedly Godel's is the best, but I haven't looked at it.

I think correspondence is the only truth theory Nietzsche knew about. It's not that truth is inherently about power. There's a natural drive to know t...

That truth is not about correspondence between a statement and uninterrupted reality. That's Nietzsche.

It's just part of the death of God. You don't get a better condo in heaven for being a faithful truth seeker.

As long as you deflate that, you agree with Nietzsche. The only extra thing is the realization that truth is actually about power. Putin and Trump are...

I don't care either way. I've just been reading about Foucault and Nietzsche, so I'm interested in the idea of dropping the will to truth, which means...

So you don't understand the question?