Strongest religions survived

The stories of religion are impressive, but from a sort of evil genius standpoint. They are highly manipulative. They take core instincts of people like love of parents and fear of death and use them to mold people. They do this extremely effectively. Only the strongest religions survived. The ones that continue to exist today are extremely powerful in their ability to implant into people and "reproduce" or spread to others.

Evolutionary significance of using hands while making out

I'm thinking about the legs that started on fish and all the things that happened to them through evolution. Snakes took an extreme approach and dropped all four, focusing efforts on hyper deadly jaws. T-rex kept that back but didn't use the front much... maybe in another 100 million years they would have disappeared completely. Whales grew a tale and let the back legs go to nothing while making the front into flippers... consider that the front legs were fins to start with on the fish... so full circle. Birds kept the reptile back legs and modified the front into wings... then penguins made the wings into flippers. After a long stint of being a land mammal on all four, humans stood up and freed front legs to be hands. The human hand is pretty amazing. I don't know of any other animal with such an advanced manipulator... evolved specifically for building and using tools. Dexterity must have been extremely important to survival to evolve to such a level. And of course, anything that is extemely important to survival will be extremely important in terms of sexual attraction. That, my friends, is why humans do so much with their hands when they are making out. It's little test, in realtime, answering a question about what one can do with one's hands.

Occam's razor in design and evolution

In the book The Design of Everyday Things, the author describes how designs tend to get over-complicated with too many features and then later on reduced to a more optimal set of only the most useful features. This is like a snake culling away it's legs and just becoming a tube that eats things.

 

Belief and purpose

Two special items exist in human minds, global purpose and spiritual belief, both of them often configured at childhood and then left in place for the rest of life. It helps to have both active at the same time. Spiritual belief is what allows a purpose to be well defined. Most animal don't have either one, and they are fine like that, but they can't really see bigger pictures like humans can. In a way, the highly social animals like ants do have both, but they are hard-wired. For example an ant will sacrifice its life to save the colony without any hesitation. The ant's belief system is crystal clear. With humans, the spiritual beliefs are very diverse, not hardwired the same for each. They are arbitrary, but not random. The beliefs can't be proven because they are too fundamental. They are the axioms, stated without proof. The stories of religion were created to make the beliefs more teachable and understandable. The stories are fictitios, but the beliefs, the definitions of purpose that stem from them, the consequences - are real.

How women always keep their options open

Women are always seeking out new sexual partners. this is what they refer to as going out and having fun. they arenlt consciously aware of what they want, but they know what feels fun. they want to look sexy and dress carefully to do this, essentially conveying that they are fertile to other males. they won't neccesarily reproduce at all because these days there is birth control, but their minds evolved in a time when birth control didn't exist.

Women don't need online dating because they ate constantly putting themselves in situations with people who are the opposite sex and about their age, thatls the social interaction they enjoy most.

So, if you have a girlfriend, she probably won't want you doing online dating, but she will always be doing its equavalent, going out and meeting people.

It's probably best to play the same game. if you really want something like online dating while you have a girlfriend, just go out with her. maybe use facebbok more, it may not be a dating website, but itls pretty useful in a similar way.

To be clear, I don't recommend deceiving your girlfriend, what ilm saying is that she will always keep her options open, so you should too.

Women considering the future

I want to tell her to enjoy the moment. Narrow the experience down to about one month, and just work with that. I can narrow it down to about 30 seconds. She wants to project out 30 years into the future, evaluating the probability of her children's survival, before deciding whether to go to dinner.

Women can laugh at fairly small things, so use this in conversation and text messages

Women can laugh at fairly small things. Things that don't seem that funny. They are more likely to laugh at what a man said if they are attracted to the man and more likely to be attracted if they have reason to laugh. It's a positive feedback system. It doesn't have to be like Robin Williams stand-up. Simple comments can work. I observed a guy making fun of girl a little bit for not knowing where Ukraine is. Then he kept referring back to this. He even added it to a text message that he sent to her later, something about her forgetting where Ukraine is or whatever. She got a kick out of it. Women love to communicate, and they love it more with a little bit of humor or making fun, as long as it's light.