If we're going to talk about stirrings in the heart then I guess we need to be clear about what we are referring to as heart. For instance, if you had to have the unfortunate happenstance of getting a heart transplant I'm guessing you would not need to get those stirrings in your (new) heart again (assuming it had not already been stirred during it's occupancy in it's previous owner!) I'm guessing the heart in this context is something to do with the brain? It could be something to do with the soul, but the soul is not detected (notice the choice of words, I'm not saying "does not exist") so I'm not sure how far we will get by introducing it to the discussion!
Note: I'm guessing that a lot of expressions like "broken hearted" etc come from a time when things such as heart transplants were not possible. Thinking about it, the English language probably does eventually get updated as new technologies and ideas appear, I recall "Rambo" being added to the OED a while back :-) The linguistic rooting of emotion in the heart has a limited lifespan I would say ... listen .. was that The Bard of Avon rolling over in his grave?
In any case, I think it's possible that God does contact each and every one of us, this contact could be the root of our conscience, as in the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action, alternatively that conscience could be caused by natural selection, take the following example:
- Two populations of proto-humans, separate from each other in their own ecological enclave
- Population "A" is very agressive, always kills and takes what it can
- Population "B" has the Golden Rule gene (or behaviour), it has fear of reprisal if it takes what it can always
- Population "A" quickly kills itself off, only one is left, the strongest one
- Population "B" breeds and breeds and eventually takes over the world
On the face of it, did Population "B" survive due to its conscience? Who knows what actually happened, we need that time machine I was talking about, the answer is there, the past is accessible just like watching a TV show, we humans will get to it eventually assuming that we survive as a species.
Queen insects: communal mating in mammals ... the opposite is certainly true .. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexuality#Polygyny
But then again you asked:
Do we see there any hint of community sacrifice when it comes to mating?
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "community sacrifice". Does the fact the men and women have many affairs from many children are born (unbeknownst to the husband on many occasions) count an communal mating?
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