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Date Posted: 13:14:11 01/29/02 Tue
Author: rueyeet
Subject: Re: Din whoozlewhats? (beware long rambling philosophy-type post!)
In reply to: Toffly 's message, "Oh yeah! Discussion time!" on 04:05:16 01/29/02 Tue

Whoozlewhats = A word I made up for "Duh!"

Taking honors sociology was kind of depressing, in a way. The teacher seemed bent on making us realize that most of what we think of as human culture is simply, as you said, the application of intellectual and moral sanctions to disguise behaviors that could be traced to biological drives evolved back when we lived in caves and grunted. I am a great believer in sociobiology, so he was preaching to the choir, there.

But to me, the thing that makes us human is the ability to act beyond, or outside of, our set of biologically pre-wired instructions. And not all of those preset behaviors are in tune with "baser instincts" anyway...altruism is one of them too, and the need for touch, and comfort, and to love and be loved.

Tool puts it well: "Overthinking, overanalyzing separates the body from the mind; withering my intuition..." The problem is not to sever ourselves from our nature, but to learn to work with it...."Swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human." (yeh, I know, I'm lyric-quoting. meh.)

Lately I theorize that a lot of the genetic behavioral hand-me-downs are there because they actually work, and that much of what screws people up is fighting them, or the fact that they're missing some of them.

ZIM has been cancelled....there will only be 26 episodes. You didn't know?

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Toffly, I'm way down here! -- Mother eVol, 22:51:35 01/29/02 Tue
- Binge is easy, purge is hard -- Toffly, 03:49:42 01/30/02 Wed
  - Chases Toffly with a bat -- Mother eVol, 07:46:58 01/30/02 Wed
    - Yes, what she said. -- Blu, 20:49:53 01/30/02 Wed
    - Hit me baby one more time! -- Toffly, 07:28:52 01/31/02 Thu
      - Catches Toffly & duct tapes him to a chair -- Mother eVol, 10:53:19 01/31/02 Thu
        This happened to me at the Jhonen board too, remember? -- Toffly, 12:29:22 01/31/02 Thu
        Twas the SLG board, ya moron! -- Toffly, 12:33:54 01/31/02 Thu
WHAT? Whuh, what why, uh, how did, WHAT? -- Toffly, 03:44:29 01/30/02 Wed
- HA! -- existi, 07:41:32 01/30/02 Wed

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