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[anniolala]

the last few days i've been thinking about people, and we are really kind of unexplainable. our range of actions, what we create or destroy, how we affect the world around us varies so much from life to life. there are some similarities almost always, not wanting to be alone, a search for happiness, fufillment, but there is no real definition of

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[gollymollie]

I read once that humans, unlike many other animals, don't have a very strong "satiation response" or something like that, which means it is hard for us to stop eating when we are full. According to...I think it was Francis Moore Lappe who I'm referencing, actually....that trait is useful to hunter-gatherers because sometimes food comes in large quantities all of a sudden and there isn't much else for a few days and so people needed to eat a lot when they could. Now, obviously, it isn't helping most of us very much.

That is simply to issustrate your comment that we are cave men still. I guess saying "still" is misleading. I think that is just the way most people are and always have been, even if they don't want to accept that.

[gelfling32686]

i've been pretty focused on my own emotions and wants lately, and it doesn't do much for just being happy from day to day.
i guess it does seem sort of primal.
mostly because i'm inclined to think it's not fair when i don't get to be happy in the way i want to be.
i am spoilt!