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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/13/2016 8:42 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
      
   > The 1 in a million coincidences get noticed.  The other 9999999 misses   
   > aren't noticed.   
      
   The random mutations that guide evolution   
   roughly work on the same principle, that the   
   1 in a million mutations get noticed, and   
   that the other 9999999 misses aren't noticed.   
   Mother Nature notices that 1 in a million   
   mutations offers some better chance at   
   survival and even blossoming, and that the   
   other 9999999 don't, or even can drive the   
   species to the ground. Sometimes success   
   can go wild and drive the species to the   
   ground, like the armour plates of dinosaurs,   
   or just the mere size of the whole animals, as   
   some dinosaurs in South America rise to   
   seven stories high and are essentially eating   
   machines. Scientists (and not even scientists,   
   but mere mortals) wonder how they can have   
   sex.   
      
   Mental culture and religion essentially work   
   on the same principle, too, as 1 in a million   
   strivers hit the jackpot, so to speak, and   
   successfully start a trend in mental culture   
   or a religion, like in Buddhism, Daoism,   
   Jewish mythology, etc. Ditto for political   
   leaders, like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler,   
   Gandhi, Trump, etc. whilst the other   
   9999999 don't get any traction and instead   
   drop into the dust bin of history.   
      
   It's a brutal world.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)