[ SECRET POST #6425 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6425 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Honestly this is probably true. All the centuries of people looking for a real, working aphrodisiac/love potion type thing and we've got a whole of nothing? Probably not happening/doesn't exist. OR what would work on each individual has to be so specific and tailored to them somehow that it's not worth regarding as "general pheromones" in the first place

[(Anonymous)]

All those centuries of people trying to build a flying machine, and we still haven't done it yet? Must be that it isn't possible.

[(Anonymous)]

...are you a time traveler from before airplanes?

[(Anonymous)]

Lmao no, I'm making a point. The fact that it's taken centuries to do something doesn't mean that it isn't possible.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

Making a machine we didn't had the resources to build vs something that we very much have the technology to find but didn't, aren't good comparisons.

[(Anonymous)]

You're assuming that our current level of technology is good enough to find them. But we run into a lot of trouble when it comes to identifying and understanding the chemicals produced by our bodies, and the effects that those chemicals have on us. And the fact is that we've found chemicals that we think may be pheromones, we just can't say we absolutely certainty that they are. And, again, we also know that we have organs in our noses that are only found in animals that can sense pheromones. Perhaps they're vestigial, but we don't know.

Regardless, the reason the comparison works is because when it comes to invention or discovery, there's no set timeline. You cannot say that something cannot be done or does not exist solely because it's taken a long time to do or find it.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a smart, informed comment, anon, and you should feel good. IDK if the anon(s) you're talking to will appreciate it, but I do. Have a good night. :)

[(Anonymous)]

"Probably not happening/doesn't exist. OR what would work on each individual has to be so specific and tailored to them somehow that it's not worth regarding as "general pheromones" in the first place"

I bolded the part which is more likely true that you missed, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't really change the point.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think this is making the point you think it's making, though. The original comment says that pheromones as OP describes them probably don't exist... OR that scents and biochemical markers may exist that cause or spark attraction (there's already interesting research into this and what attracts people to what scents or what people carry what chemicals in their immune system) but likely have to be tailored to people as opposed to secret OP's idea of a universal 'woman' pheromone that attracts (straight) men.

Flying machines happened, but not in the way the ancient people imagined them; pheromones may exist, but not in the way OP and most people imagine they do or work; how does this example not only support the original point?

[(Anonymous)]

Because central to OP's point is the idea that the length of time it takes to discover something is itself evidence of whether or not it exists. And that's simply not true.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see anything like that in the secret?

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I messed up. I was referring to the anon at the top of the thread, not to the maker of the secret.

[(Anonymous)]

Even if they did exist, I hope they are never discovered.

The implications of love potion esque pheromone are kind disturbing when one thinks about it. Such a thing could easily weaponized...