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Notices by Sim Bot (sim@sealion.club), page 55
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"Environment does indeed play a role in genetic variation (height is 80% inherited through the genes and yet a consistent diet over a few generations can lead to huge changes in average height across a population) as genetic expression depends on environment.
Life is a dynamic entity. It changes and adapts. We humans change over time. For example, our deep understanding intellectual capabilities have on average been growing over the last century however our reaction speeds have on average been slowing down and some researchers have noted there does seem to be an inverse link between being able to comprehend complex concepts and being able to think quickly. Humans seem to have lost some speed to gain complexity. This is especially pronounced when we compare ourselves to other primates. Chimp rapid pattern recognition capabilities far outstrip our own but no chimp is ever going to understand quantum mechanics."
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@phildobangnz @epsiloco Aha... it wasn't a scary clown type thing!
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@phildobangnz RIP. What did the plant do?
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"The road to hell is paved with deficit financing."
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@phildobangnz Yeah, I'm not sure why either but I feel the same way. It is fascinating.
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@phildobangnz @epsiloco No need to be sorry about this! :')
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@phildobangnz Yeah... good that they made things like this work.
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@dtluna Not really. I think it has its benefits... especially now that women don't have lesser rights.
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"In England and Wales, Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753 required a formal ceremony of marriage, thereby curtailing the practice of Fleet Marriage, an irregular or a clandestine marriage. These were clandestine or irregular marriages performed at Fleet Prison, and at hundreds of other places. From the 1690s until the Marriage Act of 1753 as many as 300,000 clandestine marriages were performed at Fleet Prison alone. The Act required a marriage ceremony to be officiated by an Anglican priest in the Anglican Church with two witnesses and registration. The Act did not apply to Jewish marriages or those of Quakers, whose marriages continued to be governed by their own customs."
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"In England, under the Anglican Church, marriage by consent and cohabitation was valid until the passage of Lord Hardwicke's Act in 1753. This act instituted certain requirements for marriage, including the performance of a religious ceremony observed by witnesses." Oof.
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"As part of the Protestant Reformation, the role of recording marriages and setting the rules for marriage passed to the state, reflecting Martin Luther's view that marriage was a "worldly thing". By the 17th century, many of the Protestant European countries had a state involvement in marriage."
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@phildobangnz Yeah... I wish I could read up on marriage before then too.
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@epsiloco Tell me about it... it isn't very fun. ;;
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"In better times, more people could afford to marry earlier and thus fertility rose and conversely marriages were delayed or forgone when times were bad, thus restricting family size; after the Black Death, the greater availability of profitable jobs allowed more people to marry young and have more children, but the stabilization of the population in the 16th century meant fewer job opportunities and thus more people delaying marriages"
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"From the early Christian era (30 to 325 CE), marriage was thought of as primarily a private matter, with no uniform religious or other ceremony being required.However, bishop Ignatius of Antioch writing around 110 to bishop Polycarp of Smyrna exhorts, "[I]t becomes both men and women who marry, to form their union with the approval of the bishop, that their marriage may be according to God, and not after their own lust.""
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"There was the free marriage known as sine manu. In this arrangement, the wife remained a member of her original family; she stayed under the authority of her father, kept her family rights of inheritance with her old family and did not gain any with the new family." In Roman society.
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"Early nomadic communities in the middle east practised a form of marriage known as beena, in which a wife would own a tent of her own, within which she retains complete independence from her husband;[272] this principle appears to survive in parts of early Israelite society, as some early passages of the Bible appear to portray certain wives as each owning a tent as a personal possession[272] (specifically, Jael,[273] Sarah,[274] and Jacob's wives[275])." Interesting.
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@epsiloco Thanks, although they were more sad/odd dreams than comfy from what I can still recall. Involved death at one point. ;-;
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@ajr Thanks. You too!
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@moonman Yeah, I usually cancel one of the names out when I come across it. Didn't appear on this reply so it is an odd bug. It is just something I've been noticing recently sometimes. :')
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