Capitalism, give us back our metaphors!!!
"If you're going to spend time guarding a female, you want to go for the biggest female you can find because she's going to produce more eggs," said UC Berkeley biologist Roy Caldwell, who co-wrote the study. "It's basically an investment strategy."
More damned lies:
"The best way of learning, I think, is to place oneself in the situation when you discover that you are nothing. The other ways have roots in one’s pride. If we do not follow this, we spend our lives finding out who loves us and who does not. (But we must understand), that it does not matter.
Without enemies we are nothing. To have enemies, to live with awareness of calamity, misfortune is one of the forms of our existence. We have to free ourselves from this form, but it may take time. First, one has to become a fighter. This is our first level.
"The actual existence of don Juan is a matter of some dispute between Castaneda's supporters and critics. ([1] Author Robert Marshall claims that Castaneda got the idea for Matus’ name from the popular brand of Portuguese rosé wine, “Mateus.”) If don Juan were a real person, his real name was apparently changed to maintain his anonymity. Taisha Abelar and Florinda Donner-Grau – associates of Castaneda – also wrote about the same don Juan Matus, although he went by different pseudonyms in their books such as Mariano Aureliano. In all of these books, don Juan Matus was a nagual who was leader of a group of practitioners of tradition of perceptual enhancement."
What galls us about lies is the betrayal and loss. Where previously we had the notion of one reality, it's quite stinging to learn we were misled. So oftentimes we will go on believing a lie as a matter of pride more often than not. Just because it's less painful to see it as a lie. But even that's a lie. You don't have to see the world in terms of things that trick you and things that don't. At least not, really.
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