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From: Howard Brazee on 9 Aug 2010 11:48 On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 23:18:28 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >I don't need to know what YOU base your Tooth Fairy belief (or lack of it) >on; I can make this conjecture based on my observation of YOU, not your >beliefs. My son made it clear to us that he believes in the tooth fairy. He had observed that people who don't believe don't get money. On the other hand, he has had years of paying for his sons' teeth. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Anonymous on 9 Aug 2010 14:46 In article <ck80669rpj27viqjdn1japf6rhs04e779i(a)4ax.com>, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: >On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:50:47 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybub(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> >wrote: > >>> 'Soldiers do not select the females of the conquered, it's the >>> females of the conquered that select the soldiers!'... does anyone >>> else have a bit of difficulty reading that and keeping a straight >>> face? >>> >> >>Sigh. Neither I nor the author felt it was necessary to even mention the >>exceptions of rapes, child brides, arranged marriages, or virgin births. > >Those people don't need such a manual, and aren't the target audience. Probably aren't even enough of them to consider, sure. DD
From: HeyBub on 9 Aug 2010 22:45 Pete Dashwood wrote: >> >> You did mention emotion. "Raison d'etre" = "intense emotional >> attraction to a course of action." > > Not sure where this definition came from, but "raison d'etre" just > means (literally) "reason to be" or "reason for existence". It > doesn't necessarily involve emotion. A shark's "raison d'etre" may be > to clean up the oceans... for example. The original definition, from the French, is as you say. That definition is in some circles, however, archaic. "Raison d'etre is a French phrase meaning 'reason for being'; in English use, it has come to suggest an intense emotional attraction to a course of action, such as 'Not money, but love of sport, is his raison d'etre to be an athlete.' "
From: HeyBub on 9 Aug 2010 22:47 Howard Brazee wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 07:56:23 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybub(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> > wrote: > >> The whole book looks like a re-work of a master's thesis. But the >> most interesting part was how the author (a woman) put the whole >> business on a biological, evolutionary, basis. She starts with two >> unprovable axioms and from these develops a cogent whole. The two >> axioms are: >> >> * Everybody has a genetic mandate to reproduce, to spread their >> genes, and >> * It is the woman that does the choosing. > > It is mostly true that the woman does the choosing, at least where > she's allowed to. > > But guys usually get married when they are ready to get married, as > opposed to when they find the right woman, or when the woman wants to > get married. I dunno. I suggest that (almost) any woman can have (almost) any man she wants. The only thing holding her back is insufficient skill. > > Still, simplifying human behavior can be useful. As in: "A man chases a woman until she catches him."
From: Pete Dashwood on 10 Aug 2010 05:42
HeyBub wrote: > Pete Dashwood wrote: >>> >>> You did mention emotion. "Raison d'etre" = "intense emotional >>> attraction to a course of action." >> >> Not sure where this definition came from, but "raison d'etre" just >> means (literally) "reason to be" or "reason for existence". It >> doesn't necessarily involve emotion. A shark's "raison d'etre" may be >> to clean up the oceans... for example. > > The original definition, from the French, is as you say. That > definition is in some circles, however, archaic. > > "Raison d'etre is a French phrase meaning 'reason for being'; in > English use, it has come to suggest an intense emotional attraction > to a course of action, such as 'Not money, but love of sport, is his > raison d'etre to be an athlete.' " Hey, I'm not up with all this modern nonsense, give me 'archaic' every time... :-) Pete. -- "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything." |