Nothin' new, really.

Right-oh!

Technically correct although there is evidence of same-sex behaviour in the animal kingdom as there is for example of cannibalism which in our species though it happens is unnatural - check prop 2.

km

Unnatural?

Tell that to the Carib Indians . . . oops: can't do that cause Europeans wiped them out and threw the bodies away. One of my favorite juxtapositions in Candid: the auto da fé in Portugal where humans are cooked and thrown away vs. South American Orellons, who cook and eat humans.

edit: I do agree that "homosexual" applies only to humans; lacking volition, animals exhibit same-sex sexual behavior.

Humm

Not so sure on all points

The Green Tree Monkey in South Africa are homosexual and widely believed thats where HIV/aids , virus originated from

Agree that homosexual is a human term but a different term in the animal world <- what that is I dont know at this time , to lazy to look it up

Yeah, I mean you can't call cannibalism natural when nearly all of us think it's taboo.


We're not going to take any notice of what they thought over here, mate... anyone trying to pull a cannibalism stunt in England would be in the dock and attended by psychologists before they could even say "auto da fé" - anywhere in the British Commonwealth in fact.

km

... Is there a way to mark all the posts in an individual thread as "read"?

Every time I've tried in the past it's just marked the entire forum as "read" ... and even though I'm not following this one it's still a trial trying to clear all the posts ...

I click on the latest post in the thread. Yours happens to be the last one since I looked in. Then I click back into the Box. Not an elegant solution, but it clears the Unreadness of the thread, and it does have a pot luck charm to it.

For example, you and I are actually talking about something that's not related to The Thread That Wouldn't Die.

But we are adding to the clutter. Damned if we do . . .

Edit: I'm one of the last odd birds who prefers threaded over the dreaded whatever y'all call that other view, so your mileage may vary. But at least I'm not looking at a gazillion pages of this bizarro thing.

Oh dear . . . misreading again. I'm not affirming the moral nature of cannibalism. But I am affirming that the ethos of particular nations allows for and in many cases encourages cannibalism. The Caribs are not unique in that regard. The point? My original one: "natural" and "unnatural" mean nothing at all in regards to human behavior.

I don't know Six. Just ignore this thread I guess.