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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: booters who wrote (459)	8/18/2000 6:56:52 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

giving up foreplay is like giving up utensils for eating because you can stuff food in your mouth faster with your fingers. God, Boots! I'm laughing all around the room. Not only is that funny...but extremely profound :) I wonder if foreplay developed in the same way as table manners did! Looking at the kinds of dining, they run the gamut from (extremely) fast (finger) food, to very ritualized and formal affairs. An enterprising person could probably get a grant to study the interesting social meanings that have accompanied the evolution of eating around the home...

To: booters who wrote (459)	8/18/2000 7:41:52 PM
From: booters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

May I ask this, please? In reading the latest post much of the discussion assumes man as the most successful creature. Seems to be based on being the most complex and having the most control over our environment. I am not sure I disagree but is this really the true measure of success. If it is not and therefore we are not, then many of the assumptions we have made are turned upside down. Along with these discussions is a common thread of, I will call it, harmony with nature. Successfully adapting to our surroundings lets say. This also seems to be a measure of success that is used to determine the pecking order. This harmony with nature (well suited to ones environment)seems to me an even more basic measurement than the other criteria and could easily be argued as the most important. Especially if we remove our own bias. So what is the true measurement of success when viewed upon by the creator. Many times I have set out to create something and soon found I've created an overly complex mess that turns out unsuitable. Then it's back to the drawing board in search of a simpler solution. boots