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Monogamy v polyamory
Is monogamy better? Is poly better? Is there an overall norm for people, with exceptions? Is it totally pluralistic? Here are some points for monogamy, with some counter points, to convey some of my uncertainty but nevertheless leaning into what I’ve chosen: Point: I don’t know a... - josefine...
Everyone should be entranced by a beautiful woman (and it's definitely not a sin)
I'm sitting here about to finalize my draft for "what are holding environments and why they are important" as a deep take. I'm on my second day of bleeding and my brain doesn't work very well. So I'm rather going to share my deep take on my experience.... - RachelMaron...
How do you know who to trust?
I've been actively studying trust for the better part of a decade, but, recently, as I have been digging through the published research, most of the thinking about who to trust becomes a conversation about what to trust.... Super curious what literature you've come across that talks about this!
- josefine...
It makes me think of how civilizations or large groups must evolve in a pattern just as individuals develop in a somewhat predicable pattern of individuation and embeddedness.... Uptrusted in solidarity/ethnocentric pride
- onHow much should inherited traditions change? This question comes up in my occult work, but it also interests me more generally: I want to know when preserving continuity is valuable and when it simply preserves assumptions that no longer work.byallinrecords...
If the tradition changes, is it still tradition?
- onHow can we step outside the biases that distort our judgments of human development and history, especially if our neurological and transcendental structures themselves constrain what can appear to us as reality?by
I am always asking this. I don't think we can, but I think it's worth trying over and over again anyway. ways we can: "reading" philosophers, science-fiction, mystics, religious leaders, and people who have thought about this throughout the millenia "reading" history,... - Sassiebrat67...
I wonder, do those who partake of more than one partner at a time, do so out of selfishness, greed, or fear? And those who are monogamous remain so because of fear, guilt or comfort?... - onok, not to be a downer or start a fight or offend anyone , I just would like to ask if anyone here has thoughts on the global political scene. I am 58 and have never given two fucks about politics because I just always knew it was a joke, a scam, a game being run on the people. But the moves lately have caught my attention. Yet, I do not watch TV at all. for almost 10 years. Because it is an tool used to control perception and thereby behavior. And I like to be free from control. I have some very radical beliefs, but I am always interested in learning how other people feel and think about their life. I know I am intelligent enough to believe I do not know everything and also that every belief I have now has been expanded from something that came before it so all of my beliefs are subject to be expanded. so if you engage with me be prepared to not take anything I say as something I expect you to adapt to. I have strong feelings, radical beliefs, and I would love seeing if anyone else is fed up with the entire system as I am. 🤸🤸🤸🌼by
I have found, in my anthropological research, that discussion is the most important. For understanding one another. And yes, I am so into simply finding a healthier system.
- Enzo...
Fantastic! I really like Illocution, Locution, and Perlocution Gap in AI (embed space). Amazing Anthropology! Also deeply interested. 😊 Topics: How will AI affect/effect humanity. Where is bias. Impact on myth. Idioms, Social_Phrases, taboos.... I was raised in Colorado. Went to Pueblo for other reasons to visit. My family is still all over Colorado. Grand Junction, Denver, Arvada. I'm in San Francisco now. What do you do? I'm a psychological anthropologist with a math backer. I write.... Read the full post- EricNBest...
Here's an abstract to your lovely new creation here. Let me know if this appeals to you . The Evolution of Money, Sex, and Power across Cultures and Communities. MONEY, SEX, & POWER What do the world's various cultures offer? What does science tell us?... - Godless Guru...
In what you’ve described, marriage isn’t a necessary element. These things form and have formed between humans since long before marriage was invented to hijack credit for them.
- Godless Guru...
'At core', the topic began as preventing corruption. What something 'at core' happens to be called or labeled, relates only to the perspective of the labelers. Advocates of hierarchic, authoritarian regulation by and large equate anarchy with chaos.... - AMA Quotes...
"Yeah, great question, and it operates simultaneously on multiple levels. I think probably in this discussion, I’ve used WE most commonly to mean the human species in general, as if it were a collective entity trying to face existential problems that exceed local cultural and... this also brings to mind the "world orders" of our pre-human ancestors, and how they still live in us and our bodies today
Yes, in my case, being an anthropologist it's almost a professional deformation: trying to strip down layers to become a better bridge builder (and a gentle bubble burster ;-)