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Thanks, Reg!!

Reg, one of these days that’ll be a reality 🙂

Strega, I will meet up with you in a hour or two…..

Enco, Jake…. I’ve spent thirty minutes deciding how to choose a small window into profundity. I’ve landed on a Māori experience.

Each tribe has its own “marae” which is their sacred community building where they attain a sense of ‘belonging’. It is prohibited for non-tribe members.  I was adopted as sister, and embraced into the shared flow of…[Read more]

Have a great week!

Strega,

Any stories you care to share i am all ears.

Also, how did your experiences alter your world view?

Enco,

Here is AI response to “Do chimps have culture?”

Yes, chimpanzees exhibit culture, defined as behaviors that are socially transmitted rather than genetically inherited or caused solely by ecological factors. Different chimpanzee communities across Africa possess unique traditions—such as specific tool usage, grooming techniques, and c…[Read more]

Jake:

The Dumbnamic Duo on the Democratic Left side is Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner:

Democrats support Graham Platner because there’s a ‘D’ next to his name: Joe Concha
Story by Britta Miller, Washington Examiner • 9h…[Read more]

Jake:

Chimps can be culturally morphed to alternate behaviors. The whole debate is like nature/nurture. If you ascribe all to one or other you have missed the fed ex delivery.Chimps can be culturally morphed to alternate behaviors. The whole debate is like nature/nurture. If you ascribe all to one or other you have missed the fed ex…

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@Enco the tribes I lived with were NZ Māori, Fijian Pacific Islanders and a little with the Aborigines in Australia. Not part of any group or organisation – I went by myself, and bearing in mind the potential risks, I probably ought to be dead several times over, by now.

Stories about all of them, that changed my perceptions of almost…[Read more]

Enco,

Chimps can be culturally morphed to alternate behaviors. The whole debate is like nature/nurture. If you ascribe all to one or other you have missed the fed ex delivery.

The plastisity of human behavior is remarkable. There is no depth of stupidity and credulity too far. No depth of moral bankruptcy too depraved. Comfort in the social…[Read more]

Jake,

All true, and again, chimps are like that without human assistance or encouragement.

Strega:

This fits in with the behaviours of some of the far flung tribal groups I’ve lived with. For them, religion is a comfort, not a cause. They still have aggression, but the dividers between ‘them’ and ‘us’ are more commonly tribal root orientated, or territorially driven rather than ideological

Interesting. Sometime, whenever you’re so…[Read more]

Y’all know that SCOTUS just defanged the Voting Rights Act, right? So incumbent legislators are already celebrating by ramping up gerrymandering.

Short:

Where male dominance is in effect as it is among chimanzees we observe no human rights. Chimanzees regard females in estrus or not as property. Worse than traditional slaves in some regards. Male chimps will do their dangdest to separate a female from the troop and rape it with a few good thrusts and then it is back to the troop and nobody knows…[Read more]

Strega,

We are plastic. It is neither a vehicle nor a root.

@Enco

”We Homo Sapiens just surround our wars with ideology and religion” is quite a profound statement.

This fits in with the behaviours of some of the far flung tribal groups I’ve lived with. For them, religion is a comfort, not a cause. They still have aggression, but the dividers between ‘them’ and ‘us’ are more commonly tribal root orientat…[Read more]