Smooth said:
ali777 said:
I think you mean "you should NOT think out of preconceptions"....
I meant what i've said - reread.
Right... I got it.. you mean, think outside of the preconceptions. My apologies!
Smooth said:
ali777 said:
I have seen enough images of Israel to know that you have a very "modern" lifestyle
unk:.
You probably saw the Palestinian parts, have a look at Tel-Avev\Haifa\Bear-Sheva\Eilat....and btw, where exactly are you from again Eli?
Man.... I'm not always mean to you
I mean I've seen lots of pics of the nice parts of Israel.. I meant what I said. Your cities are like Oasis in the middle of the desert, in a nice way
unk:. I know the Med coast is actually rather fertile, it's far from being a desert, but you get the idea.
I would like to visit Israel one day... Couple years back, I could have gone to Damascus for a business trip. I looked into visiting Beirut and Israel at the same time, but the logistics of it were too much pain in the back side... If I get a visa or a stamp from Israel, I can't enter the Arab countries, etc... At the end, another guy from my office went and he spent a week in Syria.
One of my cousins was contracted by an Israeli company, his facebook pictures of the time he spent there look nice as well.... I think he still occasionally goes to Tel Aviv.
Smooth said:
Back on topic, i think even in nature you can see that males tend to be more polygamous, i remember watching some national geographic program about lions and that they lead a pack of females...
If you look at the biology, ie natural selection, you'll find that the female is always in search of the strongest genes and she isn't monogamous neither. In theory, when a stronger man comes along, the female would leave you in a flash and get the stronger gene. Your services are no longer required. One of the sexes tries to spread the seeds, and the other one tries to get the strongest possible seed. Can you see the competition?
I think if we follow our animal instincts, the male of the species is going to be the real loser. We'll end up killing each other for the "alpha male" position, where the alpha male is going to mate with a group of females as opposed to one...
In the game of polygamy and fighting, even the average male is expendable. The survival of the species does not depend on the male but on the female.
Be careful what you wish for!!!
PS: For example, Islamic polygamy is a form of alpha male thing. The requirement is that he's able to provide for multiple women at the same time, and one of the assumption muslims keep stating is that in the time of conflicts the number of men is low and number of women is high... In the time of peace, that model would not work...