I did not get the shots and do not regret it

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Venerable tradition.


Human being have marked themselves in various ways for millennia. Tribal stuff mostly. Language and dialect are "sound markers" in this sense. Originally, the capacity for language was probably a big dividing line as the various -thals and -mags worked out the bidness.


I mean who the fuck wants to marry someone with the end of their dick chopped off? Etc.This is big stuff, this marking stuff. And since it is all about triggering tribal reactions, you have the wrong teensy mark on your head, bam, they eat your liver and hold a ceremony.


These are olden ways of the most olden sort. We used to be our avatars, or, our avatars used to have to be us.


There is no human nature except what we make it. That's pretty much what anthropology teaches you.


However, for the picky, there are constants.

1. Certain "kinship" rules always exist to the effect that reproductive sex is never a free for all in any known community of human beings. Non-reproductive sex has variability on this issue.
2. Every known human culture makes the distinction between raw and cooked foodstuffs. Taboos often associated, but are not constant. Some cultures have lots of taboos. Others very few.
3. Turning your body into a social sign. No known human culture does not create symbols, hygiene rules, scarification rituals, and so forth, that turn your body into a "member of the group."
4. Given time and the predominance of technological development in our species, there is no upper bound on what people do with these first three rules. Just that they will form them, in some shape.

I'm tempted to add a fifth observation. Tribal cultures are designed on animus, or at least non-admittance, toward outsiders. You want to be Orthodox Jewish? I'm gonna have to see that dick, buddy, no exceptions.


Yeah. You see the problem. Toffler called it "Future Shock," and it actually is just a modern twist on what Emile Durkheim called "anomie."


tl;dr the people who are freaking out now better buckle up.

[aussenseiter]

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However, for the picky, there are constants.

1. Certain "kinship" rules always exist to the effect that reproductive sex is never a free for all in any known community of human beings. Non-reproductive sex has variability on this issue.

tl;dr the people who are freaking out now better buckle up.

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Well, yeah! I didn't say what, I said "in some form."


And the maps about the rules for non-reproductive sex are .... Welcome to Funkytown.

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Well, yeah! I didn't say what, I said "in some form."


And the maps about the rules for non-reproductive sex are .... Welcome to Funkytown.

Surah 4:23

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Someone quoted zerohedge. Everyone do a shot of DMT.

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Surah 4:23

It's everywhere!



Hygiene is my personal fave. Every society has hygiene codes of some form or another. Dear lord, plenty (but not all) animals do hygiene rituals. It's one of our more primal investitures.


Clothes? Any clothing people here?



Dieting is a form of body modification. As you age, wearing jeans becomes a form of body modification. You develop a gut. If you wore proper pants with suspenders, you would likely have better digestion. But people would think you are strange and shun you.


There goes your kinship relations / sex sector.


Life, is a balancing act.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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Come on man, not that story again. The tiny arms?



No, no, it's not irrelevant.It's just kind of depressing.


I know, I know, that's the point. Damn, Marlon, you moody.

[Patrece]

The FDA quietly took monovalent COVID vaxxes off the US market today

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The FDA quietly took monovalent COVID vaxxes off the US market today

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We've had monovalent yes, but what about bivalent?

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[bigfun]

cant believe you guys are still talking about this shit lol

teeny tiny peanut brains

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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cant believe you guys are still talking about this shit lol

teeny tiny peanut brains

Pretty sure Patrece is Mick Jagger. He only thinks this thread is about him.