That's not what Darwinian survival of the fittest is. It's having grandchildren, successful reproduction through multiple generations. That's literally the proper definition.
True. I'm just a pedantic stickler. And many people don't understand that fitness isn't about having the sharpest claws in a fight, it's about passing on the most genes.
No, you are wrong. It's not about reproduction and carrying on generations. It's about adaptation and being "ahead" of the "competition". Yeah, for birds it might be a new dance or feather color. Humans are far more complex. Yeah bud, we can literally see through you. As an analogy, you are the soon extinct Neanderthal. Perspective yet?
When I was eight. Not only read, but have studied and collected. Dogeared and underlined. Highlighted and underscored thousands of books which sit in the many book cases which I've hand made.
I explained The Republic to my "elders" before I was a teen.
Have you read anything they've written? There is nothing hidden. It's all fully detailed.
Neanderthal scoffed but left no record. Their voice has been silenced. Humans of today are that. Gone tomorrow.
You actually sound a lot like me in some ways. I was taught to read at age three and was a very precocious reader and often an explainer to adults. I have more than 5k books in my collection and I've read them all. Also read many more borrowed from libraries, including rarities obtained through inter-library loans pre-internet. And I'm a compulsive underliner (I prefer a clear plastic ruler and a fine point pen) and marginal note taker. I read Darwin 40 years ago in college when I thought I wanted to be an anthropologist, mix of physical and cultural, before the whole field got cucked. I've read most of the classics too. I made myself a goal when I was 9 to read a book a day and kept it up until I went blind from cataracts in my 50s. It wasn't always exactly a book a day, some took longer due to length and complexity. But I could also plow through a couple of scifi novels in a day so it probably evens out. I'm actually excited to find someone who appreciates old books as much as I do. Sadly my library is sitting in NYC and I'm in Florida. We were in the middle of a multistage move when wuflu hit and I'm not going back for them right now. Kudos on building your bookshelves too. I don't have either the skills to do that or a space in which to do it. I've written about it before in this forum or maybe the old place, one of my first red pills was "The Gulag Archipelago" which I read the summer I turned 11. That one took me substantially longer than a day to read and many years to fully comprehend.
I didn't claim to be an expert at any particular thing. I only claimed I've read a lot of books. The worst thing that makes me is a dilettante. I don't care for the rhetorical strategy of attributing things to me which I haven't said. I'm not Ricky or Bobby, don't know who that is. I've only ever posted under this moniker on this site and on the old one. I'm happy to converse or debate with most people on most topics but I draw a line when people get abusive and nasty, which you have. So I'm leaving this conversation. Enjoy your library. It's nice to have one and I respect anyone who's built a substantial one.
That's not what Darwinian survival of the fittest is. It's having grandchildren, successful reproduction through multiple generations. That's literally the proper definition.
Uh we aren't doing so well in that area.
True. I'm just a pedantic stickler. And many people don't understand that fitness isn't about having the sharpest claws in a fight, it's about passing on the most genes.
No, you are wrong. It's not about reproduction and carrying on generations. It's about adaptation and being "ahead" of the "competition". Yeah, for birds it might be a new dance or feather color. Humans are far more complex. Yeah bud, we can literally see through you. As an analogy, you are the soon extinct Neanderthal. Perspective yet?
Have you read Darwin?
When I was eight. Not only read, but have studied and collected. Dogeared and underlined. Highlighted and underscored thousands of books which sit in the many book cases which I've hand made.
I explained The Republic to my "elders" before I was a teen.
Have you read anything they've written? There is nothing hidden. It's all fully detailed.
Neanderthal scoffed but left no record. Their voice has been silenced. Humans of today are that. Gone tomorrow.
You actually sound a lot like me in some ways. I was taught to read at age three and was a very precocious reader and often an explainer to adults. I have more than 5k books in my collection and I've read them all. Also read many more borrowed from libraries, including rarities obtained through inter-library loans pre-internet. And I'm a compulsive underliner (I prefer a clear plastic ruler and a fine point pen) and marginal note taker. I read Darwin 40 years ago in college when I thought I wanted to be an anthropologist, mix of physical and cultural, before the whole field got cucked. I've read most of the classics too. I made myself a goal when I was 9 to read a book a day and kept it up until I went blind from cataracts in my 50s. It wasn't always exactly a book a day, some took longer due to length and complexity. But I could also plow through a couple of scifi novels in a day so it probably evens out. I'm actually excited to find someone who appreciates old books as much as I do. Sadly my library is sitting in NYC and I'm in Florida. We were in the middle of a multistage move when wuflu hit and I'm not going back for them right now. Kudos on building your bookshelves too. I don't have either the skills to do that or a space in which to do it. I've written about it before in this forum or maybe the old place, one of my first red pills was "The Gulag Archipelago" which I read the summer I turned 11. That one took me substantially longer than a day to read and many years to fully comprehend.
Did you choke on your douche? Hey rickybobby, you there?
I didn't claim to be an expert at any particular thing. I only claimed I've read a lot of books. The worst thing that makes me is a dilettante. I don't care for the rhetorical strategy of attributing things to me which I haven't said. I'm not Ricky or Bobby, don't know who that is. I've only ever posted under this moniker on this site and on the old one. I'm happy to converse or debate with most people on most topics but I draw a line when people get abusive and nasty, which you have. So I'm leaving this conversation. Enjoy your library. It's nice to have one and I respect anyone who's built a substantial one.