I believe my first combination of phonemes was: ”bip guck”.

My first words where: ”I’m Thirsty”

Somehow I think my last words will be something like: ”That’s not exactly what I had in mind...” Or: ”Well that was interesting...”

How about a geodesic dome?

The thing is... the U.S. military is not ”stuck in” any ”mode of thinking.” This was a ”battle simulation” btw, not a ”war simulation”. Intriguing video nonetheless, it’d be quite something to read that critique.

I don't know why I kept thinking this as I was reading your post; but can you imagine living in a world in which everyones thoughts and decisions were constantly recorded, examined, scored, judged, and summarized by an A.I.?

Suppose the AI in the case of the stroke victim example used its methods to actually ”measure”: the subject's awareness of his or her medical condition, the degree of wellness they did or didn't feel at that moment, and their confidence in their decision to drive somewhere that day. The AI could literally compute a ”guilt” score of the subject to provide to the courts for use in a possible trial, hearing, or case.

The AI would be programmed to keep the specifics of the persons thoughts confidential, but it would provide a summary, and rank their degree of ”guiltiness” based on algorithms that accounted for not just pre-meditative thoughts, adequate judgment, and irresponsible dismissal, but internal symptoms of schizophrenia, tinnitus, torrents, etc. All of those things would be measured and worked through formulas and algorithms to generate a score of ”guiltiness”. Better yet, most of the information would have all been collected before, and during the event or crime.

Now if our thoughts, and feelings, can be recorded at all time by AI through a system of mandatory biotechnological implants; then how about ”direct intervention?” There are rumors of course that governments can already read and control minds wirelessly, but if we start implanting people with gizmos at birth then we could very quickly find ourselves witnessing AI’s being tasked and entrusted with jobs that previously; only God was worthy of. If we implement AI’s enough, we might even see ourselves create God in our own image. Wouldn't that be poetic?.... Hahaha

Is guilt an emotion? I’ve experimented with the concept personally, and I’ve never felt guilty for anything I can think of. I'm certainly familiar with regret, but if I try to fish around inside for guilt, I draw a blank.

How about innocance? Is it that an emotion? Indeed; to me they do seem more like categories that outside parties place you in. Are we all innocent or are we all guilty?

Sorry everyone,

Auto-correct mistake, it should say Bengal tiger.

Sorry, only human.

Good luck out there — Robert Peters

You can go back and edited any post you’ve made at any time; in case you didn't see that option.

I'm more of a Chutes and Ladders or Candyland player. I did recently beat a 7 year old at checkers. — T Clark

I think I’d rather eat shit & die...

But I applaud you, you're a nice father.

We have the Hope scholarship in Georgia funded by the lottery and I pay just over $1,000 in tuition per semester for my son to go to the University of Georgia. He pays $400 a month in rent and like $100 a month for food. He also spends $0 annually on haircuts and clothes and it seems like he has a very small soap budget. He'll emerge tired, hungry, dirty, and cold, but he'll have no debt. I might allow him a hot shower upon graduation if his grades are good enough. — Hanover

Wow, I applaud you both, that is precisely how I wish I could have aspired to play this game. If I could watch your son I would truly lust over his methods and achievements, but most of all; the display of that innate ability to hold oneself together. I can't even take it as it comes.

To me, it always appeared resoundingly clear that there is no inherent right or wrong. I only see that people and animals alike are lead by their desires, and nothing more.

”We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively.”

-Christopher Langan

Overproduction? The research and development for superfluous products and merchandise? Certainly we are not talking about the art industry, or the entertainment industry, for there is a proven value in those yes? They help us find meaning in life and develop culture.

Rather, we must be talking about ”designed obselecance”, the strange range in the quality and functionality of products in correlation with their range in price. The millions of unbought washers, dryers, refrigerators, microwaves, toasters, power tools, computer chairs, sofas, television sets, computers and motor vehicles, all of the piece of shit bikes at Walmart... What the hell is it all doing there? Does it really all get purchased? And if so; how much of it ends up in the landfill within 10 years? 30%? 60%? 90%???

I don't know if I've failed to understand the concept of the opening post, but ^this shit; keeps me up at night.

The bibliography for my original post:

Archeological, bone, dental, and hair analytics:
(https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tpNZAYBXNEMZDm1i7Er9CPth_nCJNiDHMTNflFHSiV303UHU2YN7Jy3NgTO4dAxiQ0qRDQbsO-oTKSc3)
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4163920/#!po=4.08805)

Anthropology, health and athletic analysis of Masai and Inuit compared to Tarahumara, and Kenyans:
-(https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/95/1/26/167903)
-(https://nutritionstudies.org/masai-and-inuit-high-protein-diets-a-closer-look/)
-(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.22239)
-(https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/food-and-macronutrient-intake-of-male-adolescent-kalenjin-runners-in-kenya/52555A7D4BCBBFEA54F5AED2B37E1D87)

Genome, and DNA analytics:
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377015/)
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112570/)
(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/star.201000150)

GHG emissions:-(http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf)

Freshwater consumption of modern industrialized animal agriculture: -(http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2012-WaterFootprintFarmAnimalProducts.pdf)
-(https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wulv.html)

Grain, famine, deforestation, and overgrazing.
-(http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat)
-(http://ipidumn.pbworks.com/f/DietMatters.pdf)

Digestive tract anotomy and analyses:
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4458075/#!po=0.866337)
(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Christensen6/publication/260083597_Christensen_J_Motility_of_the_Colon_In_Physiology_of_the_Gastrointestinal_Tract_Johnson_Christensen_Alpers_Jacobsen_and_Walsh_eds_3rd_Ed_Raven_Press_New_York_Chapter_24_pp_991-1024_1994/links/546e49ca0cf29806ec2eb03d/Christensen-J-Motility-of-the-Colon-In-Physiology-of-the-Gastrointestinal-Tract-Johnson-Christensen-Alpers-Jacobsen-and-Walsh-eds-3rd-Ed-Raven-Press-New-York-Chapter-24-pp-991-1024-1994.pdf)

I must say, I’ve always been curious as to how exactly one decides that an article was or was not ”cherry picked”. Does it feel like I probably cherry picked these articles? Was the 1,600hrs of independent nutritional research I did in my time as an access control guard some years ago lead by gullible influences of biased vegan media? These things keep me up at night, they truly do... Forgive the undertones, I’m not trying to be any less sincere then my esteemed critics, and I’m fully prepared to be every bit as sincere as they can prove to be to me... *bows in respect*

Hello, my mother named me after Alexander III of Macedon, then she preceded to leave me upstairs in my crib for 8-14hrs a day which resulted in strange patterns of dehydration. Once I started escaping and crawling downstairs to the fridge, she resorted to locking me in the basement. That's where I learned how to mix volatile chemical cocktails of gasoline, bleach, pine sol, etc. and pour them on insects until my father got home from working.

My half-sister taught me how to handle a woman from ages 3-8, then she left me for her boyfriends.

My father taught me about anything I ever showed curiosity in: locks, engines, motorcycles, ATV's aircraft, etc. And he always asked if I was hungry, thirsty, or bored.

I like to live a high energy lifestyle, and I value: free time, self-improvement, fitness, and health, more than money or social approval.

I take interest in many subjects, including: science, language, art, history, engineering, agriculture, anthropology, medicine, anatomy, molecular biology, weapons, technology, martial arts, fitness, health, and culture.


I never finished high-school, and I wish I had better grammar, and knew more languages.


I’m a nomadic cyclist. I’m not sure of my exact age, and like my mother, it is now clear that I suffer from a mental illness. I wish I didn't, but hopefully it pays off in some way, someday.

It's nice to see you all.

I don't really care what vegan websites say. I used the Entrez search engine for NIH.NLM to gether most of my facts. As I said the bibliography is pending. Most of what I said however was rather specific don't you think?

Biologically, genetically, and physiologically, we appear to be herbivore animals. Furthermore I might be willing to argue that scientific consensus does in fact show that civilizations thrive on starch as opposed to animal foods.

Obviously the true ”scientific consensus” is buried underneath bias from both sides, and even those are buried underneath the public opinion. We can accuse each other of fashioning either of those biases, or the public opinion; as the ”scientific consensus” now can't we?

Maybe we should make a separate thread for that discussion. I don't know if I care enough or not atm to convince you or anyone else that we are herbivores, thrive as such, and cannot sustain our society with the current scale of animal agriculture. Let it be my opinion, let me be gullible, a victim of vegan media bias, if that's how you see me. I'm only here to please myself through discussion, nothing any of us say here is going to change the world.

In the interim of my bibliography, is there anything specific about my passage that you wanted me to substantiate more thoroughly? Or are you just pushing me to do a better job on writing an initial argument?

I disagree.

For me, ethics is not a motive. My motive is that I believe human beings identify as herbivores through our biology & physiology alone; regardless of how we identify through our behaviour. Certainly most of us behave as this strange type of omnivore that habitually cooks meat, demestocates cows for dairy, etc. However my personal examination of the scientific consensus imparts to me that we are biologically & physiologically designed to be herbivores; and that we have proven consistently throughout history to thrive in the highest degrees of prosperity by relying on starch(i.e. Rice, corn, potatoes, beans, peas, lentils, bread, pasta, etc.) as our main source of calories. The Inca on potatoes, and later quinoa. The Aztec, Mayans, and Native American tribes on Corn(Maize). The ancient Greeks on wheat, Middle-east on bread, Asian Empires all built on rice. Meat and dairy were never ”staple foods” in these civilizations, they were delicacies reserved for ”feast and famine”; surrounded by ritual, celebration, and sacrifice, thus perhaps making hunting and slaughter more worthy of artistic representation via cave paintings. Archeological examinations of numerous sites however reveal that the amount of animal skeletons in comparison with the human skeletons of the sites populous, show that these cultures feasted on animals only a few times per year. Hair, bone, and tooth analysis all show that they ate mostly starch.

Compare the lifespans, cultural security, and athletic achievements of the ”Masai” and their respective autopsies; to the ”Kenyans” and the ”Tarahumara”.

Compare the 6-16 copies of AMY1A in our genome to the 1-2 genes each for lipase and pepsin. AMY1A is the gene for producing the enzyme ”amylase” which breaks down starch in the human gut, while enzymes lipase and pepsin break down fats and proteins respectively. To me, this directly suggests that we are genetically prep’d for a ”high-starch, low-fat, low-protein diet.”

Looking at the physiology of our digestive system reveals that us humans share a ”sacculated colon” with all herbivores, rather than the smooth short digestive tracts of omnivores such as dogs, bears, etc.

Even looking at the effect of large scale industrialized animal agriculture that first spawned in the 1940’s & 50’s, which proves destructive and hazardous to the wellbeing of our current civilization type; a move torwads veganism would still predicate desire for ”self-preservation” before it would a prideful mechanism to practice ”ethics”. Such large scale industrialized animal agriculture very well might contribute to 50% or more of GHG emissions, and be the #1 consumer of both fresh water, grain, grassland, forest, and topsoil(which is replenished 1 inch per 1 thousand years).


Now I will start on my bibliography for these statements. This is not college, and my primary motive behind this monologue was merely to entertain myself through writing and submitting a self appealing essay to trigger a megear secretion of dopamine.

Archeological, bone, dental, and hair analytics:
(https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tpNZAYBXNEMZDm1i7Er9CPth_nCJNiDHMTNflFHSiV303UHU2YN7Jy3NgTO4dAxiQ0qRDQbsO-oTKSc3)
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4163920/#!po=4.08805)

Anthropology, health and athletic analysis of Masai and Inuit compared to Tarahumara, and Kenyans:
-(https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/95/1/26/167903)
-(https://nutritionstudies.org/masai-and-inuit-high-protein-diets-a-closer-look/)
-(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.22239)
-(https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/food-and-macronutrient-intake-of-male-adolescent-kalenjin-runners-in-kenya/52555A7D4BCBBFEA54F5AED2B37E1D87)

Genome, and DNA analytics:
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377015/)
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112570/)
(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/star.201000150)

GHG emissions:-(http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf)

Freshwater consumption of modern industrialized animal agriculture: -(http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2012-WaterFootprintFarmAnimalProducts.pdf)
-(https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wulv.html)

Grain, famine, deforestation, and overgrazing.
-(http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat)
-(http://ipidumn.pbworks.com/f/DietMatters.pdf)

Digestive tract anotomy and analyses:
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4458075/#!po=0.866337)
(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Christensen6/publication/260083597_Christensen_J_Motility_of_the_Colon_In_Physiology_of_the_Gastrointestinal_Tract_Johnson_Christensen_Alpers_Jacobsen_and_Walsh_eds_3rd_Ed_Raven_Press_New_York_Chapter_24_pp_991-1024_1994/links/546e49ca0cf29806ec2eb03d/Christensen-J-Motility-of-the-Colon-In-Physiology-of-the-Gastrointestinal-Tract-Johnson-Christensen-Alpers-Jacobsen-and-Walsh-eds-3rd-Ed-Raven-Press-New-York-Chapter-24-pp-991-1024-1994.pdf)

Amalgam

-noun
a mixture or blend.
"a curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern"
CHEMISTRY
an alloy of mercury with another metal, especially one used for dental fillings.-