Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA17711 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 19 May 2002 20:49:15 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [67.243.218.201] From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: New Scientist this week Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 12:43:02 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <LAW2-F39GZuNY1SWoBD00004396@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 May 2002 19:43:02.0515 (UTC) FILETIME=[63463C30:01C1FF6D] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: New Scientist this week
>Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 21:12:59 +0200
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Steve Drew <sd014a6399@blueyonder.co.uk>
>I don't buy the altruistic tack in Evo Psych. I can accept the argument
>that
>males will do very silly and or dangerous things to mate, that¹s no
>problem..
>Where I have trouble with this argument is that people can knowingly plan
>their own deaths. You don't produce many kids if your dead. Secondly, the
>argument only concerns itself with males, despite the increasing incidence
>of female suicide bombers. Unless of course you stretch the argument to
>suggest they are reacting in some way to a threat to their future children!
>:-) It's hard science when the theory fits the facts.
>
>Hi Patrick, Steve,
>
>Just buzzin ' in,
>
>About those female suicide bombers, this is not a joke, I asure you !
>
>The question has been raised in Islamitic circles what will be the reward
>for such acts !?
>Males will get 70 or was it 72 virgins to play with when they enter
>paradise,
>but what will the girls get !? More of the same !? Very doubtful !
>The anwser, if that is one to consider, is that the females will change
>sex,
>become thus males, and will get their virgins ! A little price to pay !
>The Islamitic world is not that keen to grant 70 chippendales to each
>female suicide bomber, tradition still stands....
>
>Honestly, they don 't what to do with female suicide bombers, but even
>said that, her family, males and females will get the respect of the
>communi-
>ty they live in.
>The real answer to this question can 't be found in any islamitic text, yet
>!
>We must wait to see with what they come up next.....
>
>Regards,
>
>Kenneth
>
Does anybody really believe they're doing it for sex in the afterlife? If
so, it must be an indication of how frustrating their lives are before
death. I suspect it's more of a Western myth thand a Middle Eastern one.
The myth is that Muslims live their lives hungering after virgins.
Grant
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