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Post by StyxD on Mar 2, 2015 18:40:41 GMT
They were bonobos. You know, also the species that uses sex as a way to say hi to each other or to relieve stress. Or for pleasure, in fact.
I think implications are clear. Do you want to be like a hedonistic bonobo?
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Post by Canuovea on Mar 3, 2015 2:47:28 GMT
For the most part, the Romans were hilariously conservative and uptight. But not necessarily when it came to sex within marriage. Of course, that is the general populace. The Patricians were generally pretty... different.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 3, 2015 3:26:47 GMT
Do you want to be like a hedonistic bonobo? Um... kinda?
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Post by Canuovea on Mar 3, 2015 3:27:53 GMT
Bonobos are rather peaceful and settle almost every disagreement with sex...
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 3, 2015 3:30:53 GMT
It's like a hippie utopia.
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Post by Canuovea on Mar 3, 2015 3:38:34 GMT
Pretty much.
It also explains why they haven't yet evolved intelligence on our level.
Their society works so well that it doesn't select for higher intelligence.
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Post by Horsie on Mar 3, 2015 3:39:03 GMT
Fuck that noise, I hate apes, and hippies and monkeys don't have guns.
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Post by Canuovea on Mar 3, 2015 3:43:22 GMT
I like being able to think like I do. I'm glad I'm not a bonobo.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 3, 2015 3:51:56 GMT
Specifically I didn't say I wanna be a bonobo, I said I wanted to be like a hedonistic bonobo.
Frankly I think chimps are the most disgusting animal in the world, and a bonobo is just a small chimp.
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Post by Canuovea on Mar 3, 2015 3:53:22 GMT
Too close to us, but too far from us?
I'm fine not behaving like a bonobo though. I like the whole monogamy thing.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 3, 2015 3:58:50 GMT
Only saying "hi" to one person for the rest of your life?
Hmmm... I'll think about it.
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Post by Canuovea on Mar 3, 2015 4:02:46 GMT
It works for me. I wouldn't tell anyone else what to do though.
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Post by frostwolf on Mar 3, 2015 13:54:01 GMT
The Romans yes. The Jews? No. And in that story the Jews were the good group focus.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 7, 2015 7:23:31 GMT
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Post by Horsie on Mar 7, 2015 11:10:56 GMT
I'm surprised it took them this long to get around to this, I expected them to dynamite artefacts too big to sell within weeks of consolidating their hold in Iraq. These are the same guys who outlawed music in areas under their control because it's unIslamic.
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