Actually there's something to do with the length of telomeres that means the children of older fathers and grandfathers live longer. But chasing after kids takes a lot of energy.
"Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?"
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature"
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature"
A man climbed a mountain in search of the legendary Monk of the Moon, said to be the wisest man to ever live...
The man explored the mountainside until he found the monk's Cave. "Oh, great Monk of the Moon, what is the meaning of life?"
The monk turned around and lowered his pants. A voice came from his rear end. "One day, your life will end. What you do with that knowledge determines your life's meaning."
The man scowled and said, "What is this, some kind of wisecrack?"
The man explored the mountainside until he found the monk's Cave. "Oh, great Monk of the Moon, what is the meaning of life?"
The monk turned around and lowered his pants. A voice came from his rear end. "One day, your life will end. What you do with that knowledge determines your life's meaning."
The man scowled and said, "What is this, some kind of wisecrack?"
Having never studied genetics, philosophy or phycology, my ideas on this may be seen as sum what parochial but having said all that, I’d like to say.
As we have no influence over when or where we are born, be it as a king, a porper, lion or worm, that some of us are blessed, in this time, in this place (wherever that may be), is pure happenstance. We are not initially, as a right ‘worthy’ of anything, we are just ‘Here’. So my view, is to take this wonderful gift that we have been given, and even if initially unworthy of it, enjoy our oh so fleeting time, to do no others harm, where possible to help, and leave this place better than when we joined it, for those that may come after. And in that way, would have been worthy.
As we have no influence over when or where we are born, be it as a king, a porper, lion or worm, that some of us are blessed, in this time, in this place (wherever that may be), is pure happenstance. We are not initially, as a right ‘worthy’ of anything, we are just ‘Here’. So my view, is to take this wonderful gift that we have been given, and even if initially unworthy of it, enjoy our oh so fleeting time, to do no others harm, where possible to help, and leave this place better than when we joined it, for those that may come after. And in that way, would have been worthy.
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Somewhere inbetween the idea of nothingness (us being a bunch of cells among other bunches of cells, thus just as (un-)important as a blade of grass or a planet, or being one of this one exceptional species capable of utter destruction of its habitat (while by far not the only capable to create/develop/enhance it)
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Not that we are unimportant but time will eat all up.
Before this happens maybe we will find out the answer to the question of all questions:
Why there is anything at all and not nothing?
Physicians are the only ones still searching about it.
Religions give cheap uniformed answers pretending having solved anything around it. That's uninspiring and boring.
Oh I know, Douglas Adam's answer "42" is it.
Before this happens maybe we will find out the answer to the question of all questions:
Why there is anything at all and not nothing?
Physicians are the only ones still searching about it.
Religions give cheap uniformed answers pretending having solved anything around it. That's uninspiring and boring.
Oh I know, Douglas Adam's answer "42" is it.