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On Oct 6, 2011 4:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Haha - This conversation went from audiobooks to the genetics of humans.
too funny. On a different note - has anyone heard of the band called Feist?
I was checking out iTunes yesterday and saw it - haven't listened to them
yet.
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> Ed
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "XDude" <[email protected]>
> To: "feistfans-l" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 2:35:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Audiobooks (or, the human race)
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> The human race as a whole would not have survived the “caveman” stage if
it did not have genetically-imprinted behaviors to provide for and protect
others, and to ensure that all mouths are fed.
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> The idea that humans are entirely self-serving equates us to being more
like reptiles.
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> Humans have an instinctual need for approval and recognition. At a genetic
level, we actually care what other people think, and most peoples’ behaviors
are more out of recognition and approval than anything else.
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> From: Patience
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 12:26 PM
> To: feistfans-l
> Subject: Re: Audiobooks
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> " Humans are biological entities, therefore at the core of their need
structure is three very strong drives: eat, have sex, and don't die."
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> And they have one thing in common, looking out for ones self. Drives font
include looking out for others
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> " because of our deficiency in physical strength learned to band together
to provide safety in numbers."
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> " But we also are competitive, which is why we are seriously still into
"my tribe v. your tribe" mindsets. At best"
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> " realize that food, sex, and survival are at the foundation"
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> At the core of all of that is that they are looking out for themselves and
their happiness ergo selfishness.
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> Look at why humans in general do what they do: breed, survive, succeed,
find happiness = looking out for ones self.
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> " Within those very large groups of behavior there are millions of
variations."
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> But the same base instinct
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> " Self-sacrifice? History is full of it."
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> Yeah there are things that drives them which go against their nature and
cant be explained, like when a hippo saves a young springbok from alligators
or a lioness adopting young gazelle 9 times it is Very very rare, but the
lion still kills to eat.
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> one "self sacrifial act" does not make someone selfless. can someone do
that all their life?
> On Oct 6, 2011 4:53 AM, "Raymond E. Feist" < [email protected] >
wrote:
