We humans, we're obsessed with ourselves. We need some other intelligent species to expand our frame of reference. These big brains give us math, science, art, culture, civilization itself, but they probably make us a bit weird. We get lost in ourselves, individually and collectively. We can only compare ourselves to life forms which can't tell us about themselves. I can hear these roaches in my apartment laughing at me, at us. They'll still be here when I'm gone.

I've no idea what I'm babbling about. We can think ourselves into all sorts of weird places, I guess.

Being a bear of minimal brain, myself, I often absorb ideas without remembering even having been exposed to them. The ideas slip out sideways, unexpectedly. They too often feel fully original to me. It's mystifying. Also, embarrassing.

Upon explaining this tendency to a relative, he a retired college professor, I was warned that I could be somehow guilty of plagiarism. My muddle-headed, osmotic mode of learning could lead to trouble! That I don't do this thing intentionally doesn't matter, according to him. That sort of freaked me out, yeah.

Which is the long way of noting that I love Neil DeGrasse "Doctor Awesome" Tyson to pieces. I've watched many, many of his talks. Surely I've ripped off many ideas from him.

In that very talk (if you watch the extended version) Tyson rips off Sagan.

Is that we are all the one percent?

That never would have dawned on me that the 1% difference in DNA translates into all that we have achieved that chimps haven't. That's a really intense realization.

But, yes, in your context I guess all the 1% that is not chimpanzees is us.

Good one!

However, think about how weird humans are sexually. We are increasingly engaging in activities that are not only weirder and weirder and seem not to have any survival advantage in engaging in them but seem to inhibit our survival.

So, really, who is doing sex wrong???

Because of the irony that, somewhere in the mess that is his character, he might have it right.

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was looking for your feedback?

Or, if you are a mod, maybe he thinks my thread is incendiary in some way. Maybe I shouldn't have used the word "stupid"? I would tend to agree with that so I'll edit my OP.

There is nothing wrong with your post
and we have no mods on DU3.
If anyone had found your post a problem, they would have alerted on it and you would have been notified.

No explanation needed. It went right over my head at the time. I don't know why i failed to connect your user name with "Mr. dixie. at the time but i did. In any event, I didn't take it as critical, though I did edit my post to comply with my own standards and for some atrocious spelling. I have to pay more attention.