invert_nexus said:
So you're saying that Satyr is a thinker? And Wanderer was something else?
Do remember the train of conversation, dear heart.
What conversation...
Oh. But, that's right, it was Wanderer who made posts about how he would manipulate the water cooler crowd, isn't it? Something along the lines of the stereotypical sociopath playing a part to fit into society when he was, in fact, a cog that didn't fit?
Sounds like fun.
Care to point to a quote?
I’d love to relive the past.
Good times…good times….
So. I suppose Wanderer never did come back.
Satyr is the real Costa?
Ooh nice way to slip in my name and show how in the know you are.
Wanderer who?
That idiot is dead to me.
I'm just me, bubba. Always have been. Always will be.
Far less than that, dear boy.
It's a bit more complicated than that, Satyr. I would say that from the studies I have seen, rape is uncommon.
The subject isn’t how often it occurs but if it occurs and if it is natural or not.
Sex, in chimpanzee cultures, is a social glue.
And what is it for humans?
You call it prostitution? This is an anthropomorphism. A human concept.
Okay.
How's this:
Female primates, of which man is a part of, have been known to accept food for sex.
It wasn’t invented by paternalistic human systems. It was part of nature to begin with and it was subsequently integrated into human systems.
Rape isn’t a human dysfunction. It is a natural occurrence which human intervention attempts to change.
Thieving isn’t unnatural.
Killing isn’t unnatural and dysfunctional.
Chimpanzees use sexual behavior to smooth social relations for the troop. Even infants are observed to make sexual motions as social cues. Humping and the like.
Are you a pedophile?
Oh my…my royal head swoons….
Is rape unknown in chimp culture? I wouldn't go so far as that. And, I suppose that there are different cultures, some of which are more rowdy and which rape might play a larger part. Usually, these cultures are ones which the chimps are living close to humans and are thus in a tentative environment. These same cultures would engage in war-like behavior to a larger extent than would be considered the norm.
Ah, it’s man’s fault again.
Damn those animals were so well-adjusted and healthy and normal and moral before man came along.
They didn’t even fight wars until damned man forced them to.
Thank you sir.
It all boils down to this. You can't rape the willing. And, in a successful chimp troop, they're all willing.
Hey, that’s the excuse date-rapers use.
If wearing a suggestive dress isn’t asking for sex, then what is it?
Why do women dress provocatively?
Chance, choice, whim….
Except for one the female is in estrus, of course. This is when the mating means something and you have dominant males policing the weaker males from getting any of that.
Don’t worry, you’ll get some eventually.
I mean males die, right?
You think about this often, don't you?
You have, like, no idea how often.
I masturbated to the idea of her, yesterday.
That's for me to know, and you to never, ever find out.
Is this the first or second time you’ve ever been part of the in-crowed? Like, oh my gawd, you are, like, in the know.
I’m jealous, footman.
Now I know why you didn’t go insane after she departed.
“Immigration!!!!” Na, didn’t work.
“Ola, puta!!!” nothing still.
Why. Yours, of course. Who else? My queen.
Tee, hee, hee…you’re making me red…..silly.
Pucker up.
(It's a pity that you really just don't understand simple human relation. Sad, really.)
I know.
You beat me again.
How can you stand being so silently superior, without ever wanting to prove it?
It’s what makes you such a good ass-kisser.
How is she?
Feed my need, brother.
Russel was a logician, Wanderer.
And you are an illogician.
I think I’ll take Bertrand’s opinions more seriously than the local herd’s regurgitations.
Isn’t it interesting that we like to mention all the human faults of the one’s we disagree with or who say things we find reprehensible. We remember how human they were when they say things that hurt us.
But when they say things we like we only recall how nice and smart they were.
The opponents of Nietzsche use this method of dealing with him.
Wasn’t Wittgenstein a reclusive homo?
That must mean that his opinions were wrong, right?
Yes, things are more complicated. Making one wonder how then you can discuss it using short, laconic phrases.
Ah, but nobody is really interested in philosophy or the topic here. It’s only a pretext to socialize, flirt and share chewable bio-matter.