Humans are conditioned by nature, as an evolved survival strategy to save time and energy, back in the days when food was hard to come by, and hunting was time consuming to seek the easiest paths. And we are also afraid of uncertainty for much the same reasons. But those factors once so useful, mean that even today, we tend by our natures therefore, to prefer short simple answers lacking in nuance and complications to all our questions.
Yet the universe is we know, complicated and filled with important detail. Which means that our in built bias, in favour of simple answers, may well be a bias leading us away from truth and understanding, and towards some ideas, just because of their easy nature rather than their veracity. ( Yes, some things do have simple answers, but by no means all of them. ) What however may be even worse, is that we may tend to choose to believe lies rather than truths, because lies can be made up, by the dishonest, and can be deliberately engineered to be simple and easy, in order to be favoured by that bias.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.First and foremost your survival strategy, as far as one can garner glean and gather from your meagre griffonage and scrivenery, appears to be so superlatively developed (doubtless honed by a lifetime of devotion) that I hesitate due to my own SS to wax lyrical of your mastery.
I am fearful and can't be bothered saying you've found the god seed.
I reckon the lies about the universe were created in the firmament because no-one knew why stuff happened, stories and lies were convenient, and everyone is gullible.
waitingforgodo
Level 8
Feb 14, 2022
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Judgmental much? Yes.
yvilletom
Level 8
Feb 14, 2022
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No lazy and cowardly are not judgemental, that is not what the post is about, I accept them as a given and am even proud to call myself lazy and cowardly , and think that the world would probably be a better place if people were more of both. The point is, that things which are part of our nature and are often useful, can under some other circumstances be exploited and used against us.
To use a pejorative like "lazy" when All creatures practice using less calories (to increase survival) is not accurate at all!
To use the term "cowardly" when 99.9% of the time it is the safe & sane thing to do because Any injury, for Any creature, before doctors/hospitals, almost always meant death, (and lack of passing on genes) is also IMO pretty silly.
Your hatred of your own species is sad.
AnneWimsey
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Feb 14, 2022
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Oh I do not hate my species for being lazy and cowardly, in fact lazy and cowardly are qualities I admire, and in nature I do not even regard them as pejorative. Lazy and cowardly are not judgemental, that is not what the post is about, I accept them as a given and am even proud to call myself lazy and cowardly , and think that the world would probably be a better place if people were more of both. The point is, that things which are part of our nature and are often useful, can under some other circumstances be exploited and used against us.
@Fernapple sorry, but the words "lazy" & "cowardly" are & always will be loaded & nasty & Seriously dilute your attempted message, above........
Not to mention, if you think as your reply indicates, very misleading. You are not uneducated & I am baffled as to why you would phrase Biological Imperatives as ugly traits.
@AnneWimsey You are looking at it perhaps from a trans-Atlantic point of view. You see, sometimes I forget that it is an international site, and in the UK using words like that would mainly be seen as humour and affectionately ironic. It may have been better to say something like, humans are conditioned by nature. There altered it now, is that better.
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