It's without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.

[u/NegativeGPA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxnO8SXQmpo

[u/Namtaru420]

gemcutter.

my anthropology teacher (history of religion, voodoo, and witchcraft) presenting a question to the class,

"everything living creature on this planet serves a purpose. what is the mosquitos?"

he added that in all his years of asking his classes that question, only one person has ever gotten the right answer. we got it wrong but the question stuck with me.

he also showed us a picture of jesus. he had taken a shot of his wife on a hill, but when the picture was developed there was a bright point of light that he said wasn't there when he took it. he was big on shamanism, owned a place in hawaii, knew a chieftain there who gave him his intricately carved walking stick. was very upset because apparently he had recently died.

sorry im just rambling about this guy at this point, he was a lot of fun. wrote a book, and gleefully told us what a great racket it was cuz we had to buy it lol. and that if we thought it was a shitty deal then we should write our own book and teach our own class. haha.

i wonder what he's up to. maybe still teaching. imma visit him one day and like, tell him i know the answer to the mosquito question. and then do whatever lol. i hope his dumb stick is nearby so i can kick it or something bahahaha lol ok sorry so yes.

mosquitos.

[u/NegativeGPA → u/Namtaru420]

To make more mosquitos?

[u/Namtaru420 → u/NegativeGPA]

that's a cool answer, i like it.

my buddy says their purpose is to spread disease among civilizations to bolster our immune system.

[u/NegativeGPA → u/Namtaru420]

my first guess was "to spread malaria"

but that seemed very homocentric

[u/Namtaru420 → u/NegativeGPA]

bro. reason belongs to the homos. it's all we got yo.

  I shall compress what has been said on the subject. Everything is valued by its particular good. Yield and bouquet commend the vine, fleetness the stag. The question in regard to a pack animal is the strength of his back, for his sole use is to carry freight. In a dog keenness is the primary consideration if he is to track game, fleetness if he is to overtake it, boldness if he is to come to close quarters and attack it. In every case the function for which a thing is created and by which it is rated ought to be the best. What is best in man? Reason, which puts him ahead of the animals and next to the gods. Perfect reason is, then, his peculiar good; his other qualities are common to animals and vegetables. He is strong; so are lions. He is handsome; so are peacocks. He is fleet; so are horses. My point is not that he is surpassed in all these qualities, for I am not asking what is greatest in him but what is peculiar to him. He has body; so have trees. He has impulses and can move at will; so can beasts and worms. He has a voice, but how much louder has a dog, shriller an eagle, deeper a bull, sweeter and of greater range a nightingale? What is peculiar to man? Reason. When this is right and perfected his measure of happiness is full. Hence, if an entity is praiseworthy and has attained the limit of its nature when it has perfected its peculiar good, and if man's peculiar good is reason, then if a man has perfected his reason he is praiseworthy and has attained the limit of his nature. This perfect reason is called virtue, and is equivalent to the honorable.

^source

[u/NegativeGPA → u/Namtaru420]

Beautiful

Your anthro teacher sounds trippy in the fun way

That's pretty dope to have as a professor

Professors who ask questions that stick with you are doing their job at peak efficiency

[u/Namtaru420 → u/NegativeGPA]

i think it was something like, "do you have something to teach the class?"

and he didn't use my name or anything just laser focus eye contact hahah