By Donald W. Miller

This booklet provides my own reflections at the nature of existence. I supply the following my perspectives on intercourse, loss of life, love, God, and the significance of tune, and paintings mostly. This e-book can be of specific curiosity to scholars of Schopenhauer and Woody Allen lovers.

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2 The Significance of Sex Man is incarnate sexual instinct, since he owes his origin to copulation and the wish of his wishes is to copulate. Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation When human beings are put together in relatively small groups populated by both men and women sexual overtones are always present. It happens in all types of settings: in an office environment, on a construction site, in a classroom, and in an open heart operating room. In this latter setting, with the patient asleep and covered with drapes on an operating table in the center of the room, nine men and women work as a closely integrated team.

Gorillas, our “second cousins,” have harems. Male gorillas have wrestling contests in order to decide who takes control of the harem. Since the biggest and strongest male gorillas generally win the contest, they are the ones that get to mate with the females in their newly won harems. Consequently, only genes for Heart in Hand 56 large body size are propagated into subsequent generations of male gorillas, and as a result male gorillas are considerably larger than female gorillas. Both species of great apes, however, copulate infrequently, only once a month when the female goes into heat.

Woody Allen provides us with a crucial insight regarding this important consideration. In Broadway Danny Rose, Danny says that Tina strives to have a good time and get what she wants, without hesitating to “do it” to the other guy first, because she doesn’t feel very good about herself. Tina is quick to disagree and says, “Stop saying that. ” Allen’s artistic insight on this subject, which is now being confirmed by behavioral scientists, can be summarized this way: People who make the pursuit of pleasure the chief concern of their lives and who are most given to deceitful, devious, and aggressive behavior generally have a lack of self-esteem and consequently don’t feel very good about themselves.

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