Hello.
Hello how are you doing on this fine cold day my good sir? I am doing well thanks for asking.
I didn't ask. Don't assume like that.
Wow that is kinda rude and mean of you. You could have just responded that I am doing good or that I am fine or something on those likes. Why are you so mean to quote the great singer taylor swift who once asked the philosophical question why do you have to be so mean? I think it is a question that one can ponder their whole lives and truly wonder why that is. I myself have not pondered on that matter of the subject just a few seconds right now and I am now pondering it and I am curious of the great ramificiation
I am sorry Courageous Sun Bear.
ramifications it could have on the human race. I would like to know what you think about this. Do you think that humans could in fact always be mean or do you think they are
I didn't mean to offend you.
How do you know who I am? That is kinda weird.
Deductive reasoning.
Do not worry my good friend for I was not offended. To be offended that is a decision one makes and to choose to stay happy is another decision I make and I myself always try to make the decision to be happy because I have found that choosing to be happy has made me happier and life. Choosing to be offended will not result in what I really want in life.
To an anthropologist, a kinship system is not a list of biological relatives. It is a system of categories and statuses which often contradict actual genetic relationships.
You must tell me good sir from whence do you hail from. What do you mean by this random information that came out of nowhere.
There are dozens of examples in which socially defined kinship statuses take precedence over biology.
Do explain and tell me more of this biology matter please I would love to know more about what you are talking about and it sounds very interesting to me on what you are
The Nuer custom of "woman marriage" is a case in point. The Nuer define the status of fatherhood as belonging to the person in whose name cattle bridewealth is given for the m
talking about so I would love to know more and please tell me more. Oh and I just randomly want to tell you that if I had a flying car then that would be awesome I would be
for the mother.
able to go anywhere in the world that I want and I would have a lot of fun just traveling around and seeing the world. I hope I would not have to pay gas but I probably would
Thus, a woman can be married to another woman, and be husband to the wife and father of her children, despite the fact that she is not the inseminator.
What is with this mother you speak of? I am not sure what you are talking about when you say mother if you could please explain for me that would be nice. Thank you very much.
In pre-state societies, kinship is the idiom of social interaction, organizing economic, political, and ceremonial, as well as sexual, activity. One's duties, responsibilities and privileges vis-a-vis others are defined in terms of mutual kinship or lack thereof.
This all sounds rather odd to me. So the woman can be married to another woman? Am I reading that correctly? Where are you getting your information from?
The exchange of goods and services. production and distribution, hostility and solidarity, ritual and ceremony, all take place within the organizational structure of kinship.
I just want to know more about what you are talking about so if you could explain everything you re saying because you are rather losing me on this subject because I don't know much about it. I could not know much about it because I don't know what is going on. There you go again talking about some kinship. I think you are describing your ideal society at least that is what it sounds like to me that you are doing. Tell me more about this ideal society to you. I am going to assume that this is what you are talking
The ubiquity and adaptive effectiveness of kinship has led many anthropologists to consider its invention, along with the invention of language, to have been the developments which decisively marked the discontinuity between semi-human hominids and human beings.
about your ideal society because that would make more sense in my head. Could you please tell me the definition of an anthropologists please because I do not recognize that word in my vocabulary I guess it has eluded me since I have been in this world or perhaps one day I did hear of it but then I forgot it. The only way that I can remember words
While the idea of the importance of kinship enjoys the status of a first principle in anthropology, the internal workings of kinship systems have long been a focus for intense controversy. Kinship systems vary wildly from one culture to the next.
is if I am practicing them over and over again so I can remember all the words in my head.  I am going to start doing that so I can remember the words and be able to do every
They contain all sorts of bewildering rules which govern whom one may or may not marry.
What is a kinship system could you pleases tell me the meaning of that word so I may understand it please and thank you very much for taking the time to explain it.
Their internal complexity is dazzling. Kinship systems have for decades provoked the anthropological imagination into trying to explain incest taboos, cross-cousin marriage,  in terms of descent, relationships of avoidance of forced intimacy, clans and sections, taboos on names-the diverse array of items found in descriptions of actual kinship systems. Sorry I was just talking about some ideas that I had regarding kinship systems. I was reading about it for my English class and I just wanted to share with you some of the insights that I gained from my reading. Did you happen to like it or was it sort of difficult to understand? I got the impression that it was quite difficult for you to understand the ideas that I was sharing happily with you.
I think that everything you said was difficult to understand because it came out of no where and then I was trying read what you were saying and I could not really understand
I get that reaction a lot from a lot of the people that I shared my regulatory insights that I gained from the readings for my English class.
everything that was going on. It was confusing my mind and now I don't really know what was going on and I am going to have to ponder on it so I can know more about it.  I think that I am going to search this up and just try to understand more on this subject so I could be learned and not considered a person that is ignorant because I
Well, it just requires for me to express my ideas in a more elementary manner. A manner that is not so intellectual and filled with vocabulary words that are unfamiliar.
love to learn and every time I am learning about something it makes me happy inside that my intelligence is increasing and when I increase my intelligence then I feel like I
Yes, Google is a great search engine for seeking answers to the mysteries we encounter in our lives. But beware of the credibility of the answers. You never know how true is the "truth" from the Internet.
am going to be a better student at BYU because obviously anyone who is on this chat is from BYU because that is what the people who invited me to chat on this said they are from. That is very true I am going to have to be careful on searching this matters on the internet and I am going to have to get books so I could learn more about it. But I have to
I believe that it used to be trustworthy information, but then people that are liars started posting lies as truth in order to get a good few laughs out of there pitiful stomach. So you are a BYU student?
get books from the people that are considered to be the scholars of this world because they are going to teach me everything I have to know or well at least I hope so.
You are attending Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah, USA?
Yes I am a BYU student I know that everyone in this chat is because it says that this is exclusive to BYU students so for you to be chatting here means you are one too.
Wow you are so smart.
It is very simple. It said so. Yes I am a student attending at that university in that location that you have mentioned. It is right next to this other building there.
I just wanted to dance in the rain for a little bit before we got all wet and went inside the house to be together by the fire in the lake by the seashore.
Thank you for saying that I am smart I am trying to increase my intelligence so I could have all A's in all my classes and I think maybe it is paying off for someone to notice
The Marriot School of Business is a building that is located at Brigham Young University and it houses many professors that teach business related majors.
I just to try and be the best that I can be because if I am going to do that then I would be extremely happy and I would shouting saying hooray for me doing my best. That is
Accounting for example is a business related major (in my perspective) and it has been ranked among the top 3 accounting schools in the world since 1997.
all I can ask of myself to try and be the best human being that I can possibly be because that would be awesome. Wow that is cool that you know this info from BYU. This is wha
That is a very interesting fact and I would love to major in accounting, but I believe that my retention on the material taught in Accounting 200 is not at the level that I
what I need to increase my knowledge as you have and so I could be able to say everything you are saying. Maybe instead of increasing my knowledge I could try and just focus
want it to be and I know that if I wanted to truly retain all of the information one learns from the Accounting 200 course, then I would have to consistently study and review
on what I am going to major in and try to be the best person I can be within that field because there are so many things to learn and If I focus on the ones that really matter
and that I something that I do not want to do which leads me to know that I do not really like accounting that much because if I did, then I would not mind reviewing and
then that could help me in the future have a very successful career and who wouldn't love to have a succcesful career and just have a great time doing what they love.
studying accounting every day which is why I will not continue with the accounting major.
Hey I am going to be right back I have to go clean my teeth. I have not cleaned them today so please wait for me to get back because I want to keep chatting with you because
I just like to know information and accounting seems like a great deal of knowledge to possess in this world.
you are an interesting human being and I know want to know more about you so wait for me while I attend to some matters that I have to do.
Why do you want to keep chatting with me? That is nice/ You are a very nice person and I like you for that. You seem like a respectable young man and I admire you for that. You hardly come across respectable young men such as yourself in these days. You are a great person. You should be happy for yourself that you are a great person and I wish the best for you in this life. I have an idea about a book. You see I would like to be a writer some day. Do you think that it would be a good idea for me to be a writer? I mean, I would first need a stable job for sure to become a great writer and to be able to maintain myself economically and support my family. I do plan on getting married on day and having a family which is why I would need a stable job in the first place. If I didn't have a stable job, then I would not be able to support my family financially or economically in any way and that is something that I must be able to do. Imagine if we lived in a world where we didn't require money? What if money didn't exist? What if we didn't have to buy anything? How would that be like? Can you just imagine a world where we didn't have to use money? That would be really weird. I mean, how would that work out? I know that people are always going to want to exchange their goods for something else because maybe they see some value in other goods that their own goods. But what if people did not have the desire to exchange? What if everybody had all their goods in common?
I think that if money did not exist then people would still find a way to have some type of currency because if nothin existed then no one in this world would want to do
Everybody has goods that everybody has and if nobody has those goods, then nobody would have those goods.
something for nothing because no one likes working for free or just doing it for the good of society. They would begin trading in something and use that for their currency.
A type of currency will always exist if people exchange their goods or services.
I believe that money makes the world go round and if we got rid of that I know humans would eventually come back to it because it is something the world  needs.
The reason we use money is to buy something we don't have. What if the thing we would buy with money is something that we already have? What if the thing or good that people would use money to buy that particular good is something that the people already have? If people already have the goods or services that they would normally use money to buy with, then there wouldn Then there wouldn't be a reason for money to exist. If people had all things in common, then I believe money would not be necessary. Just think about that. What do you think about that idea? Do you think that it is interesting? Maybe I could write a book about that.
but people are so evil that they would figure out a way to make something that everyone else would want.
I would have to think a lot about the subject if I were to write a book about this idea though. What if that was  not the case?
Well if people were good, then it wouldn't be a problem but that is an ideal that will never happen
What  is everybody as all things in common and by all things in common, I don't just mean their faces or their likes or dislikes, but their physical possessions!
so everyone has everything.
And imagine if there was no king, ruler, president, tyrant, nobody to rule the people. Yes! Everyone has everything. I think the concept would be too difficult to write a book about though.
That also seems improbable, because people will always want more.
It would require a great deal of thinking on my part to write a book that has this concept and subject idea. I am just going to the restroom really quick I will be back.
I think that nothing could ever work at least not right now. Right now is  not the time for currency and all that stuff to stop because if it did the world would be in anarrch anarchy
Ok, well I am back. I went to the restroom and I had a good time in there. It was a nice place to be for a little while. You should try is sometime. It's nice. Anyways, it was just a book idea, and I just wanted a second opinion on the idea of the book idea that I had. I have several other book ideas.
I am very hungry and I do not know what to eat. I imagine it would be nice to be a robot because they never have to worry about being hungry and we humans do have to worry
You see, I would like to be a writer someday and I know that the only way to make money as a writer to be able to write a book that sales a lot to the public. I would have to think about what audience I want to target. What do I want my audience to be? Young adult? Adults?
Well if you want to be a writer you have to take it seriously and take stuff that will help you improve and explore what world. i think if you traveled aboard that will help
Teenagers? Little children?
you know about the world and improve your creative mind because then that would really  help you be a better person and have  a better mind to write books for the world.
Well if you give me money to travel abroad then I will very much study abroad. You can deposit the money in my bank account. Do you want me to give it to you?
It all depend on what you want. You could write it for everyone or just a specific audience. Who do you think you would connect more and who do you want to connect too? Maybe
Oh no, I just remembered that I can't give you my bank account because that is personal information. Just give me the money. Show me the money.
I don't have money unfortunately you see I am paying or my school and it is taking all my money away so I can't help you there. You are going to have to find the money yoursel
If you ever want to meet up so you can give me the money so I can study abroad. I would appreciate that very much. Just stop going to school and give me money to study abroad. You are the one that suggested that I study abroad. So I suggest you give me money to study abroad. Give me money to study abroad.
I do not have the sufficient funds for myself, much less for your study abroad.
I am just going to talk to you about some ideas that I have. It is about kinships and the relationship and ideas regarding that. It probably won't make much sense to you.
Like what, for a business or for a book? A Project?
Most people don't really understand what I am talking about when I tell them my ideas.
Personal project?
So if you don't understand what I am talking about, don't be alarmed. It happens to everybodyy. Everybody.
I think I will understand, and if I don't then you can explain it to me and type even more words. So what are these ideas for? What are you planning to do with them?
In a typical gift transaction, neither party gains anything.
Yeah they do.
In the Trobriand Islands, each household maintains a garden of yams and each household eats yams.
The giver gets the satisfaction of giving, of seeing another person being happy. And the recipient gains a gift. Ok...
But the yams a household grows and the yams it eats are not the same.
So is it like a crop cooperative? They farm things and then share them amongst each other?
At harvest time, a man sends the yams he has cultivated to the household of his sister; the household in which he lives is provisioned by his wife's brother.
Now I got confused. Why does he send them to the household of his sister?
Since such a procedure appears to be a useless one from the point of view of accumulation or trade, its logic has been sought elsewhere.
And why is the household in which he lives provisioned by his brother-in-law? Are you typing what you are reading? Are you copying the text that is write in front of you?
Mauss proposed that the significance of gift giving is that it expresses, affirms, or creates social link between the partners of an exchance.
I am looking at you kid.
Gift giving confers upon its participants a special relationship of trust, solidarity, and mutual aid.
I need help to build an app.
No I am not and you can't see me. That would be weird. I do not know you and you do not know me. I am just a student that is attending Brigham Young University. It is located at Provo, Utah in the country of the United States of America.
So, I have a great app idea burring in my brain and I have no idea how to bring it and all of its profit potential to fruition.
The United States of America became a country after it won it's independence from England. Or Great Britain.
Aren't all participants of this chit chat challenge students of BYU? That's one of the requisites for the competition.
Yes everybody is a student at BYU.
I know someone that tried to participate, but they couldn't because they weren't BYU Students.
Everybody is a student that is attending Brigham Young University. They are students who are now filled with a life of stress and anxiety and exams and midterms and a lot of other stuff that is not fun for students and for me especially.
So here's my conundrum, should I hire a developer and invest a fortune on the idea, or should I learn how to build the app myself and do it?
These are students whose social lives have been eradicated. They have ceased to exist.
You are not even reading what I am writing to you are you?
They do not go out anymore at all because of their decision to attend Brigham Young University.
You are just typing, ignoring my every word.
I never really had social life to being with. But now it's gone.
Begin with you mean.
It has been eradicated. It has ceased to exist. Well if it never existed, then it probably can't be eradicated.
Granted, you did not have a social life because you were a missionary for two years before starting school.
I just need to pass all my classes for this semester and then I plan on getting easier classes next semester.
So the question is how was your social life before?
I am planning to be a part-time student because I don't think I can continue to be a full-time student.
Before the mission, did you have a social life? Or was it basically the same as it is now?
It is probably going to take longer for me to graduate, but as least I won't have gray hairs from all the stress that homework and exams bring to the student. I just need to have money to pay my bills and also to pay for my tuition.
I think a flaw with this challenge is that the conversations that are being had on this platform are not genuine conversations. People are just spewing words.
If I am able to get good enough grades, then maybe I can receive a scholarship and get money for tuition and for my classes and for books.
They're just typing away as much as they can, but the conversations are not typical of what a normal conversation is like.
People are always having genuine conversations. This is a genuine conversation. You are just not reading what I am typing for you. You are ignoring my words.
No, you are talking about your lack of a social life. I have posed several questions already and have not had a concrete answer from you.
You have to read what I am saying and then you can reply to me and we can have a genuine conversation.
By the way, does this thing have a limit as to how many characters you can send at a time?
Because there is no concrete answer. It does not exist.
What does not exist? Your social life? I know that.
Yes, it does have a limit.
Your social life basically consists of Hyrum
I don't know what the limit is, but it has a limit. It is just like Twitter.
Why would they put a limit? Can you copy and paste text into this? That would be funny. Maybe that's why they created a limit.
Well Hyrum Smith is dead, so my social life can't consist around him. Neither can it consist of his dead corpse.
So that people would not past mass amounts of text on here and send it off as a conversation. I meant Hyrum your town.
That would be weird and uncomfortable.
twin!*
You can't copy and paste.
Unless you were Joseph.
That would be cheating. The students would not be typing.
Yeah, it would be cheating, but is the function to copy and past disabled here? Or is it just not allowed?
They would just be copying and pasting and earning points they do not deserve. Yes it is disabled.
Does it matter how many words I type into this?
There is a character limit.
I took a typing test recently and for a while I was at 93 words per minute.
But we can continue to talk forever. I am not that good at typing.
I need to wash my clothes, commonly known as doing laundry.
I don't typing using the homerow keys.
And then I have to eat something because I am hungry.
I need to type using the homerow keys to become a more efficient writer. I want to become a more efficient typist.
And there is a mirriad of things I need to do still.
I mean to put typist instead of writer.
myriad* I misspelled the word.
It seems like a useful skill. I would like to be a good typist because much of my homework has to do with typing on a keyboard.
I wonder if being a proficient typist would help you become a stenographer. Do you know what a stenographer is?
And I also work at a call center and it would help me improve at my job and be quicker and all that good stuff.
Do you know what is your typing speed?
No, I don't know what that is and I never heard the term before. I am unfamiliar with the word. It's not good enough.
You can go to typing test.com and do a quick minute test.
It isn't that high. But it I wouldn't count it because I don't type correctly. I want to learn how to type correctly using the homerow keys and then I will take some typing test.
A stenographer is a person whose job is to transcribe speech in shorthand.
I don't think I would be able to be a stenographer. I wouldn't be able to type that quickly.
Before machinery that helps them type it out, they would use some symbols that represented sounds. Now they used something that looks like a typewriter. But it is not a typewriter.
I can barely write fast as it is when I am taking notes as a lecture for one of my classes at Brigham Young University.
You do a combination of keys that represent a sound. Stenographers are used in courtrooms to type everything that is being said.
It would be nice if I write my notes really fast. That seems like a nice skill to have.
I believe they are also used for closed captioning live events.
Are stenographers used in anything else?
Like general conference.
What other live events do stenographers type?
Anything that requires the written recording of text probably uses stenographers.
I think I would be stressed out with a job like that because I would not be able to do it.
They make over $20 an hour Not many people have that skill.
Are there other stenographers that get paid more?
Probably. I think it depends on the industry and the location.
Well I have to do my homework. If I don't do my homework, then I will fail my classes.
There are jobs that get paid more in different locations.
I have to do my homework before I go to work.
For example, teachers get paid more in Texas than they do in Utah, but they essentially do the same job.
Because I get out very late at night and there is not much time for homework then. I am going to live in Texas then.
There might be some minor differences like preparing for state standardized tests.
Maybe it is because Texas teachers teach better than Utah teachers. Maybe because Texas is a bigger state than Utah. I am going to live in Texas to be paid more.
Probably, maybe in Utah there is an expectation that parents should educate their children. The responsibility is probably seen as more for the parents than a public service. But I am not sure, that is simply a guess. Ok, well I'll let you do your homework. And I will do laundry.