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I think you can safely assume that the writer of the article is talking out of some organ not involving brain tissue, yes. The evolution of ritual behaviour is a fascinating field of study but nobody (well nobody who counts anyway) believes that some kind of religious sensibility is a necessary precursor to its development nor a necessary justification for its practice.
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9082365 wrote: a fascinating field of study but nobody (well nobody who counts anyway) believes
Hi, this is a very interesting response, and I am curious to ask you who you believe does "count" in this area, and what are your interests in this "field" ?
The possible behavioral/social, and biological/neurological/endocrinological corrolaries of repetitive, or stereotypic, behavior in small groups was once of "professional" interest to me (in another life), and is an area where I have published, and won an NIMH research prize (long, long, ago).
thanks, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Blimey! I just made a comment. I wasn't expecting some kind of Spanish Inquisition! 
In my other life, theology (Regina Scientiarum, and all that), whilst I could not ever claim to have been an expert on a par with yourself, I've tried to keep up with ideas on the origins of religion (having had the obligatory grounding in Durkheim), ritual behaviour both religious and non-religious, cognitive dissonance, mental illness ... the list is endless ... in a multidisciplinary (ie. scattergun) kind of way. Like many people my age, I was led into the area by Desmond Morris (Manwatching, and The Soccer Tribe, the latter of which I suddenly realise I lent out when I last taught A-Level RS in support of the question "Is Football A Religion?" and was never given back!) I make a point of reading anything new by Pinker, though usually to disagree with. Otherwise I just pick up anything that looks interesting and might prove relevant (from optical illusions to freakonomics, infinity and beyond). Behold the last of the polymaths (or, at least, Jacks of all trade!  )
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Well, I'm sorry my (intended to be) friendly overture appeared to you as an invitation to a tête-à-têtee with Torquemada 
Nice touch of serendip that you should mention football qua religion; my (late) father was a college level football-coach and athletic-director: no, I never played, and, it was obvious to me, by the age of thirteen, or so, that (in the American south) college football was both religion, and gladiatorial entertainment ... and, for me, was as boring and un-interesting as the local flavors of the suicidal carpenter religion.
May I (without, I hope, seeming patronizing) congratulate you on your inquiring mind, curiosity, and depth in science ? Steven Pinker is my favorite cunning linguist, and a delightful writer; I think he may be the only person on earth who can tell us what Chomsky meant.
If you'll come to northern Thailand, I'd be happy to buy you a coffee, or other potion, after our elephant ride in the jungle.
By the way, I have a feeling you would really enjoy Steve Jones' "Y: Descent of Man." fyi: I'm no expert on anything.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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It's all rubbish - chimpanzees are far too intelligent to believe in a god.
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Looks to me like the photographer bored a hole in that root cluster and stuffed a ripe banana deep inside. Then he sat back with tape rolling to watch the ensuing pandemonium. It's a lot like creating a beautiful garden, populating it with naturally curious creatures, then telling the creatures they can have anything they want, except the fruit of this one particular tree...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm reminded of, "you can't monitor a system without altering its behaviour".
I suspect the chimps are simply reacting to the presence of the camera.
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Evolutionists will make up to discredit God's word. For instance myth that dinosaurs only lived millions of years ago when they are today alive in many place consideringGabon, Congo. And myths of religious Chimpanzee when only life breathed the soul into man.
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Not a believer in the Scientific Method then? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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cle_elum wrote: Evolutionists will make up to discredit
One wonders if the howler they make up are as chimpish, as the howler you just made up. In any case, I suggest the chimps are enjoying themselves much more than the walk-on-two-legs-chimps who, infected by the virus of language, invent gods in their own image, at which they throw genocide and atrocity, not rocks.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Chimps are obviously happier than humans:
1. They don't care about the movement of little green pieces of paper
2. They don't possess digital watches
(with apologies to Douglas Adams)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Western women have been doing this on dating sites for years and with far more insane reasons. The basic female predisposition is to reject all men unless there's a very good reason to accept them (well, I say good ...) whilst men will accept all women unless there's a very good reason to reject them. This explains why 80% of men on dating sites (figures courtesy of the Freakonomics guys) never receive a single message of any kind from a woman, whilst only a tiny proportion of women never receive a message form a man.
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Easiest thing in the world. Just write you're a multimillionnaire in bad health.
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I have a wife-to-be from India. Thank you for pointing out a few things that I should be aware of "not to do". 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: have a wife-to-be from India.
You should do an AMA on this. Pakistani men with Indian wives - that's a rarity!
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Instead of a whole session, the thing is simple. She doesn't have problem with me being a Pakistani, and I don't say anything to her, for being an Indian. We're just two love birds. If that is understood by others, too, rarity would be found in every block.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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How did you two meet? I would assume you are both living in a western country?
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You may want to cover your ears while I say, "Facebook".
I live in Pakistan, Punjab. She lives in India, New Delhi. We haven't met ever, (may sound strange! I know), I am willing to travel to India this month, after a few days. 10 maybe, and I will meet her, for the first time. You, just can't imagine the feeling that we are having these days as I wait for visa approval call and she waits for me to come to India to meet her.
I will share the moments that we will have, and oh yes, apart from CodeProject I am also going to get an MVP award from C# Corner. I think, credit for making two love birds meet, goes to them.
Our both families know, we are not having a typical Indopak relation, where both end up being terminated by their families.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Wow, this is awesome, like out of a Bollywood movie
Good luck to both of you.
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Thank you, Nishant!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Don't answer this if it's personal, but I would assume that either both of you are non-religious or you are both of the same religion. Can't imagine an inter-country as well as an inter-religious south Asian relationship going this smooth family-wise.
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No, that's fine by me, because I don't take things personal too often.
The thing is, I haven't yet went to her parents to say, "I want to marry your daughter". Maybe later, not yet because she said, she wants to complete her study first and then talk about marriage, so I respect her choice of freedom. Once she completes her study, and I mine, and I find a good job. I will go and talk to her parents, because they're educated and not typical kind of family who would not understand.
And, we're not of same religion.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Impressive, very impressive
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Awesome! Good luck to both of you! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
/ravi
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