Do we have souls?

[adamb1029]

Oh man, that's a whole other argument in itself. Maybe Rosetta will start telling some of her ghost stories.

whys that a bad thing chris?

[Jill's Boob]

Hello Columbine!

I hope all those questionable rants were just some sort of deeply dark humor. Yikes!

[adamb1029]

Columbine?
oh yeah.no i would never do that.. Grrr..i hate those two.

[Vector]

whys that a bad thing chris?

When did I say it was a bad thing?

[adamb1029]

the way you said it implies your either scared she will,or its a bad thing,whats so bad about them?

[Vector]

the way you said it implies your either scared she will,or its a bad thing,whats so bad about them?

You're not very good at detecting implication, but you're also apparently bad at detecting 'tone of voice' in messageboard posts. I wasn't implying anything. Everyone loves ghost stories...it's just, they can make me uneasy at times.

[TheSelfishGene]

I don't want to derail from the main point, but Alexia and Rosetta brought it up.
Reproduction can happen without sex, however the benefits of sex definately outweigh the costs involved (which there are alot. STIs, risk of death in childbirth, high infant mortality).
Regardless of the high 'cost' of practicing sexual reproduction, it appears to have appeared throughout the history of evolution more then one, which suggests that it's a viable strategy to survive (ie. Not become extinct).

The best guess as to why sex is so widespread through many forms of life is called The Red Queen Hypothesis (no link to Resident Evil). In that the recombination of genes generate new genotypes which are less susceptable to parasites that have co-evolved to parasitise species. So alot of species actually practice sex, with no enjoyment whatsoever, but because if they didn't they'd become extinct.

No species (other then humans) are actually conscious of this. It's just that those that didn't practice sex all became extinct - and the only species we see surviving are those that are practicing sex, although many don't know why. There are some very rare exceptions.

Sex for pleasure seems to be an anomoly. It's not characterised in many species. And the most drastic example is in bonobos, a close relative of the chimpanzee.

Also to correct a slight technicality. Alexia mentioned that humans descended from monkeys, which isn't true. Humans and chimpanzees are the two most recent species to share a common ancestor, with bonobos only removed a tiny little bit further back.

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[adamb1029]

Oh,that explains it.
but if ghosts somehow exist and people remain on earth after they die then..that kind of implys souls of some kind dosent it?
does if you ask me

[Vector]

Sex for pleasure seems to be an anomoly. It's not characterised in many species. And the most drastic example is in bonobos, a close relative of the chimpanzee.

Bonobos were thought to be the only non-human animal to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: face-to-face genital sex, tongue kissing, and oral sex.


If it's true that 'you learn something new every day,' I'm very satisfied with this being my one 'something' for today.

[Jill's Boob]

Do bonobos have souls?

But in all seriousness - I just read up on them. I'd never actually heard of them before, and I do enjoy learning something new. Arigato gozaimasu, Gene-san.

[Corrin]

Bonobos were thought to be the only non-human animal to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: face-to-face genital sex, tongue kissing, and oral sex.


If it's true that 'you learn something new every day,' I'm very satisfied with this being my one 'something' for today.

Yeah...are they the same primates that fuck each other instead of fighting? Or is that another primate?

[nemesiswontdie]

Yeah...are they the same primates that fuck each other instead of fighting? Or is that another primate?

there the same i think.

[News Bot]

Spiritually? No.

Generally? No.

There is a large number of people on this planet that, for all intents and purposes, are a waste of oxygen and resources. Nobody's perfect, but some people are just... wow. Organized religion is an absolute con and should've been eradicated but people are fucking stupid and took Martin Luther the wrong way and decided to skull fuck his valiant concepts and bastardize it into the very thing it sought to correct. We are stupidly territorial despite our advances and we hate each other for the slightest of differences, and will by all means seek to defend our trivial beliefs for the sheer sake of it while exercising our ability to slaughter each other. We're barely out of the jungle. We have increasingly twisted thoughts about everything around us and we always seek to consume and destroy no matter the harm it's doing to anything else. If it benefits us, it's a good fucking idea. We have prehistoric and mind numbing conceptions of higher powers because we need to justify our actions, when the truth is we're all just fucking insane. We're still operating primarily out of the reptilian brain. We aren't civilised in the slightest, and anyone that tries to tell or act otherwise is just another one of those two-bit fucks we're overpopulated with, self-centered and relentless.

I mean we fuck our own cousins and have been doing so since the beginning of time. We stay in enclosed circles and continue fucking our own relatives, producing more defective off-spring that go on to do the same, producing even more defective off-spring and polluting our DNA, restricting the capabilities of our children and setting our own evolution back in a single generation by about 1000 years. Even when presented with that which could lead us into a prosperous age, we enslave them, beat them, murder them and use them for our own sake. Typical human nature that would've been eradicated long ago if we weren't so retarded. Most diseases and mutations these days shouldn't exist. We've created them ourselves.

Get to some interracial fucking and correct this mess.

In short; if the human race were to end, nothing of value would be lost.

[Corrin]

Spiritually? No.

Generally? No.

There is a large number of people on this planet that, for all intents and purposes, are a waste of oxygen and resources. Nobody's perfect, but some people are just... wow. Organized religion is an absolute con and should've been eradicated but people are fucking stupid and took Martin Luther the wrong way and decided to skull fuck his valiant concepts and bastardize it into the very thing it sought to correct. We are stupidly territorial despite our advances and we hate each other for the slightest of differences, and will by all means seek to defend our trivial beliefs for the sheer sake of it while exercising our ability to slaughter each other. We're barely out of the jungle. We have increasingly twisted thoughts about everything around us and we always seek to consume and destroy no matter the harm it's doing to anything else. If it benefits us, it's a good fucking idea. We have prehistoric and mind numbing conceptions of higher powers because we need to justify our actions, when the truth is we're all just fucking insane. We're still operating primarily out of the reptilian brain. We aren't civilised in the slightest, and anyone that tries to tell or act otherwise is just another one of those two-bit fucks we're overpopulated with, self-centered and relentless.

I mean we fuck our own cousins and have been doing so since the beginning of time. We stay in enclosed circles and continue fucking our own relatives, producing more defective off-spring that go on to do the same, producing even more defective off-spring and polluting our DNA, restricting the capabilities of our children and setting our own evolution back in a single generation by about 1000 years. Even when presented with that which could lead us into a prosperous age, we enslave them, beat them, murder them and use them for our own sake. Typical human nature that would've been eradicated long ago if we weren't so retarded. Most diseases and mutations these days shouldn't exist. We've created them ourselves.

Get to some interracial fucking and correct this mess.

In short; if the human race were to end, nothing of value would be lost.

Alright, then take the first step and off yourself. It's for the greater good, you see.

EDIT: And also, stop fucking your cousin.

[Harry Mason]

I'm not into religion really..so when I say "i don't remember anything from before I was born" I think that sums up what it's going to be like when I'm gone.

Just live and find something that makes your life worth living (sex anyone?), we are all going to die anyway, the question is when, and did you have fun while you could. I've had a blast.