ways_i_have_evolved x -more patient -less prone to anger -less reckless and self-abusive -more committed -less pushy -less need for revenge -more forgiving -more self knowledge and usage of this knowledge, in general i've evolved in that i've made changes which increase the likelyhood of me surviving. in the technical biological sense, i would then have to pass this onto my offspring...but technically it would have to be genetic... and yeah. don't get technical with me about evolution. i know my shit. 040223 ... minnesota_chris I keep my shit in baggies 040224 ... expand Maturity killed my instincts 040224 ... jimmy sometimes i worry that the strategy i was born to enact has already passed its most virile stages and now i'm onto plan B. it would seem a lot of humanity is there right now. it's not like there's any selective advantage as of yet for people who are predilected to living to 115. one part of our strategy, controlling the envoirment and diminishing it down to easy to manipulate abstractions, has eclipsed the other part, bearing children, and dying with dignity and spirituality. and so now we're taxing and ruining what was a necessary part of the unique equation humanity is even developing. strange thing a brain. it lets you change your behavior without the slow march of evolution. it still has its limits though. 040225 ... jimmy how strange would it be if at a rational level, everyone suppressed their drive to have children, and the last generation of humanity left the earth, slowly one by one. 040225 ... jimmy not that there's anything strictly rational about not having children. it depends on your goal. jeesh i haven't evolved at all. 040225 ... dafremen Unfortunately, the definition for evolution which you present is a product of your pre-"evolved" mindset. You have not evolved, only met predefined goals which you have deemed evolutionary. Evolution is an involuntary process in which we are each welcome to take part, just not on OUR terms. Change brought about by the human ego and intellect pursuing its own goals are like the fossilized footprints of a dinosaur that never was. Let the indignation and march of ego begin. 040225 ... Not who you think is it really dafremen? Hurrah! Huzzah! 040225 ... brandnewme I've grown little finger thingies on the rims of my nostrils, if I like how something or somebody smells the thingies stuff it/them into my mouth. 040225 ... jimmy evolution only happens through natural selection. or soon, artificial selection. i believe the term was being used with poetic license. 040225 ... jimmy and so changes brought about by human intellect are actually the drawn out effects of the prior evolution of a brain which does such things. since such changes are directed often by goals and such, you can actually say we take part in our evolution, since we continue to exhibit it and define it when we bring about changes due to our intellectual prowess 040225 ... JUSTme I used 2 be such a sweet little girl... then some how drugs alcohol sex and bein a cutter found its way into my life... 040225 ... dries&hardens have only made me come full circle, because by the third time around, you've filled in all the gaps. and i've never been more ready for another go. 060325 ... oren Less excitable Savoring life more often Ways I_have evolved 060326 ... .. I'm a total mess. 060326 what's it to you? who go blather from