I agree with you completely except your brod statement of no female can match a male ...
as I have seen things that would make any male respect certain females much much more<grin>
or risk having an arm broke ! hehehehe
But on the avrage Yes definately ... You will need to be on the defencive... as you so planely stated , the males are the hunters and the females are THE hunted..
your years of street-smarts should make you paranoid enough that you will have very few problems however... where gals get into truble is because they just don't know Any thing about how a male works ,thinks or reacts... You on the other hand Know this already... so don't forget it ! ....it may well save your hide in the future !
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...How ever the idea of this thred was to scrutinize ones self and see how we think, and how many personalities there are inside each of us.
it seams that two people or consciousnesses reside in the avrage person, there may be more or less, thats just a rough guess at this time.
the way I have thought all my life is to bat ideas back and forth in my head... asking questions and giveing answers... at one point in time I was talking to myself out loud
to see if the comunication was better... if the thoughts were getting accross better...
and it did seam to improve a bit but wasn't worth the strange looks or people asking me Hay Bob who you talking to ? ... hehehehhehe so that experiment sort of faded away
but when I am realy puzzled about something i pull out all the stops and realy get into the debate ! HEHEHEH no doubt its comical as heck to a bystander ! but I have found that it works extreamily well for figureing out mechanical problems, which is what I am usually messing with....because I am very mechanical minded and love anything to do with the subject, just because it is !.
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For instance, the other day I was trying to hook up the brakes on my Gyrocopter that I had just made from scratch, I'm proud of the fact that Not only did I design, shape and form the brakes and disks but I poured the molten alumimum to make the brake calapers out of too ! .... anyway, it worked out that one side is a bit diferent than the other side and the cable length was an important factor in the adjustment... both brakes need to come on at the same time so I have both cables goint into One cable that is actuated by a brake lever... but getting them to actuate at the same time was puzzeling because it didn't work out quite like theory said it should ! ... so after batting the problem back and forth in my head I came up with the answer of cable length adjusters for each wheel.
which cured the problem entirely.
But I have alwayse wondered if I am the only one on the planet that thinks like that or does everyone go through the same proccess ??
I remember a very good friend of Mine while we lived in the Reno Nv. Airea who we had discussions on Math.... I love math but never was realy good at it... well Tom was , infact he was so sharp with figures that he'ed have the answer before I could poke them in a calculator ! ... so I asked him how he did it.... and it was an assoation trick...
we retain (remember) much better, if we Assoiate something with a number... for instance
the number 1 was assoiated with the picture in his head of one lone tree on a hill top.
the number 2 was two logs side by side in a pasture. 3 was the trinity ( God the father ,God the son, God the holey ghost) 4 was a pitch fork with four points. and 5 was one hand with the fingers out streched...
he had pictures for all the numbers up to arround 55 or 60 that were fast and easy to recall for him... and was gaining more all the time , but he said the first 10 are the important ones...
that man never forgot a number !.... and his computations were always very acurate, though he did mess up every once in a while... he said not forgetting the numbers in the first place was crutial, and for that he had the assoiation trick the pictures in his mind of the numbers...
We are VISUALY Oriented creatures... which means if you can picture it in your head you CAN remember it with ease.
I doubted this alot so I put him to the test... because at the time I was trying very hard to learn Morse code for my Novise Ham liscnses... but I was realy stuck on how to remember all those dits and dahs.... he showed me ... on a piece of notebook paper, i then made it a plack on a board and hung it by my radio gear and learned it in about a week.... where i had been struggleing with it for at least 2 months before that...
each letter of the alphabet was converted to its dit and dah equivelants but the dits and dah's them selves were pictures of things.... the letter A was a dit and a dah naturally, but there is no Visual Refrence to clamp down on with that ... but a Bouy and a dalphin is a picture... and easily represented in a quick drawing...
after i menorized the morse code I was stuck at 5 words per minute for ages.... and I wanted to go faster... but couldn't get there ! ...then my Homer as she called herself Joan Coffer My TEACHER, told me i needed to memorize the SOUND of the letter...
that sounded like a big order but in actuality it was simple... because a Sound is something we can retain fairly easy as well.... I guess it comes from years of evolveing in the past listening for things that may try to eat you ! you need to remember them to survive! ....<GRIN> anyway.... I memorized the sounds and forgot the pictures as they were a waste of time by then... and my speed increased to 20 words per minute almost over night.... still not happy as I wanted to be an extra class ham radio operator I cept pressing on , and Joan told me now remember what the words sound like ... by then I was already doing that by instink and by the next week i was at 60 words per minute...
I never did get Extra class because You have to be able to write that fast as well ... though I could send and recieve at 60wpm I could only write at about 20wpm and i found if I tried to write, I slowed way way down.... Not the first time I wanted to be Like Cindieanna Jones in her ability to dual task simple operations ! but alas I only got to Advanced class because I couldn't pass the code portion of the Extra class .
... I said all this to make the point that there are Tricks we can use to Help us be Smarter.... to help us retain information.
I was raised to believe Ham radio operators were a realy smart group of people... only to find out they were just regular people just like me .... the same with Pilots though I think most Pilots have a serious haing up on prefectionisum ! but thats another story !
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Each of us have the ability to do extroidnary things if we just set our minds to it !
the tricks some people use at first sound so silly but work so well, we dare not over look them.
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well, sorry for the Novil !
got carried away again ! hehehehe
C ya !
Bob........
