Totally OT!: The Lovin' Y

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WULFHAWK

Thursday, March 6, 2003 3:42 PM

Cockatoo.

Capable of 100 decibel screeches, these sharp- eared jungle denizens will interrupt phone calls with deafening effect. The seem to hear your conversations, even recognize who is on the other end. Some folks get the 'friends call', but some callers elicit the 'warning screech'.

very much a phone kinda critter.

tanstaafl

LOSTANGEL

Thursday, March 6, 2003 4:01 PM

Hmmm. A cockatoo. Not as dignified a mascot as I had hoped for, but then again my boyfriend would say that any animal that emits a 100 decibel screech would be my perfect companion.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

SARAHETC

Thursday, March 6, 2003 4:46 PM

Our mascot is Succatash! Duh!

And the ways it's working now, the mongoose spends most of its time in a little crate or stretchnig its legs locked in a bathroom.

The fajitas were good, as usual. Gotta love little mom and pop places that know you when you come in.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

LOSTANGEL

Thursday, March 6, 2003 5:30 PM

But the mongoose is gonna do somethin' at some point, right? When I think of the mongoose, I think of the ferret on the Budweiser commercials that upstaged the iguanas.

Yeah, I know what you mean about mom and pop places. There's this mexican restaurant that is always so booked, it's the hottest place in town, but they are so nice. They never kick you out or make you feel rushed, no matter how many people are waiting for a table.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

WULFHAWK

Thursday, March 6, 2003 5:32 PM

If there is anything better than rural, small town America ... it's probably science fiction.
8)

SUCCATASH

Friday, March 7, 2003 5:47 AM

Hey Wulf, come on out to Small Town Utah America and get yourself some wives!

Has YOUR mom seen Firefly, lately?

LOSTANGEL

Friday, March 7, 2003 2:46 PM

Oh good, I was meaning to bring this up anyway:

I'm not being sarcastic or mean, but if husbands can have multiple wives in the Morman religion, how come wives can't have multiple husbands?

I'm serious about this, I am curious.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

SARAHETC

Friday, March 7, 2003 3:15 PM

*beats head against keyboard*

*channels Folk Implosion*

*takes notes for next Chronicle*

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

KAYTHRYN

Friday, March 7, 2003 3:50 PM

Here are my thoughts LostAngel,

Helpful definitions to start,
Polygamy- Having more than one husband OR wife at the same time.
Polyandry- Having more than one husband at a time.
Polygyny- Having more than one wife at a time.

Mormons practice polygyny if I am correct (men can have many wife’s) but not polyandry (where women can have many husbands). Most cultures that accept some from of polygamy accepts polygyny instead of polyandry, and the basic reason is that it is historical. (That all just means that most cultures that say people are allowed to be married to more than one person, say that it only applies to the men, and they can have many wife’s.)
Think back when most of the population on earth lived in small groups. ( This is not in religious terms but evolutionary). To survive, generally, it is easier with more people in your group, more food gathers, more hunters, more helpers, and later on, more people on your side in conflicts. (An example would be farming families that have lots of children to help with the work).
Now for another visual. Polygamy at base is a lot like breeding animals. You really only need one male (a few more is preferable to avoid birth defects caused by incest ) and a bunch of females. The one, or few number of males can get tons of females pregnant, but it doesn’t work the other way around. One female can not produce as many children with many males.
Other animals also practice polygamy. In fact, there are few creatures who believe in life long relationships. ( I cannot think of any off the top of my head but there are some). Only the best, and most powerful males are allowed to mate, and with many of the females. Elephant seals are one example. When only the best males mate with the females, they have a better chance of passing on their favorable genes, and “weeding out the bad”.
I am assuming that with Mormons, they have just tied this evolutionary mating system into their religion and that is why it is still around today in our culture. Because of the number of people in our culture, polygamy in no longer needed as it was, and that is one reason why many people think committed relationships have come about. Sadly is all sounds like population control.
This is just one theory. I really don’t know much about the Mormon religion, so anyone else willing to put in their two cents, I’d love to hear about it.

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Jayne: Hey, I didn't fight in no war. Best of luck, though.

LOSTANGEL

Friday, March 7, 2003 4:33 PM

I kinda figured out the evolutionary reasons and such, but are there any religious reasons?

I know there's some mormons out there. Help me understand your religion. I don't want the info to make fun of you, I just want to know more about cultures/religions that I have no first hand knowledge of, and this is one of those questions that you can't just ask your buddies about. Well if you don't have any mormon buddies anyway.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

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