Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "JRE Clips"
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I left my religious indoctrination at 70 years of age, because I knew that if a god existed, (because of suffering) I could no longer pretend to worship such a monster, and that if I had the power to create ... suffering would not exist at all. Image a god, with a conscience, planning on creating the following. The Grapple Tree (Harpagophytum procumbens) of South Africa produces a fearsome fruit called the “Devil’s Claw” which has been known to kill a lion. The fruit is covered in fierce hooks, which latch on to passing animals. In trying to shake the fruit off, the animal disperses the seeds but at the same time, the hooks sink deeper into the creature’s flesh. If the animal touches the fruit with its mouth, the fruit will attach itself to the animal’s jaw, inflicting great pain and preventing it from eating. Antelopes are usually the victims. From my perspective, we have two choices. We can either believe that the universe was created by an entity that designed suffering as part of its plan ... or, we can believe (as did Stephen Hawking, before he died) that the universe always existed, and will always exist ... no plan involved. I prefer the second choice.
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That there is only male and female stems from biblical interpretation, and from my perception that is archaic nonsense. If we are not transgender, we can't possibly know what a person who is transgender feels. To bully others who are not the same as us, is a very nasty habit, often carried out by people in the name of “God.”
People have surgery on all parts of their bodies without others bothering them about "morals." Yet, the moment anyone wants to change his or her sexual organs, as in transgender, many people in religion preach that a god created male and female “only.”
If you believe that a god created human bodies as he wanted them to stay, then you better not circumcise the penises of your sons. You better not have breast implants. You better not have growths removed. You better not have any type of cosmetic surgery whatsoever. You better not have treatment for diseases of any sort. After all, "God's" plan should not be messed with, lest he becomes annoyed with the tampering of the perfection he is certain he created.
Once a person starts using religion to preach what is moral, and what is immoral, that person can end up in big trouble, not only with others, but also, ultimately ... with one's own conscience.
From the book ... The Final Inequality, by L. J. Ludovici. "Morals at any given moment have always been as good, or as bad, as our imaginations credit them, for the morals (from the Latin, mores: customs) means simply customs, and they keep changing all the time in all the corners of the world."
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If (for instance) children were locked in a room from birth, and not taught any language, they would create their own language among each other. Without religious teachers to persuade them that a soul, and a spirit, and a judge-mental god, and an afterlife exists, they would live and die as do other animals ... plain, and simple. I prefer to believe as did Stephen Hawking, before he died, that the universe always existed, no creator involved.
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Even had Jesus lived as a real person, rather than a character in a book, he never would have started a religion foreign to Judaism ... but rather, he would have been faithful only to Judaism. That is just common sense. Jews in the early days were polytheists (worshiping many gods.) Some Jews were certain that if they could start a monotheistic religion, all people of earth would have to come to them to be saved, as they preached that they were the one God's chosen few. It didn't work of course, as monotheism invited competition, and along came the first Gnostic Christians (Catholics being among them) who begged to differ with the Jews. Then along came the Muslims ... who begged to differ with the Jews and the early Gnostic Christians. Then along came the Protestants ... who begged to differ with the Jews, the Catholics, and the Muslims ... making the Abrahamic religions a total mess, as was and is all religious mythology ... created by men.
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Well ... I wonder if this teacher learned anything about that term IQ?
From the book Uncle John’s Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Reader’s Institute …
UNCLE JOHN’S “CREATIVE TEACHING AWARDS
If schools handed out degrees for dumb, these teachers would have earned a Ph.D.
SUBJECT: Motivational Speaking
WINNER: Steven Rivers, a 7th-grade teacher in New York State
CREATIVE APPROACH: Mr. Rivers, a teacher for more than 30 years, routinely called his seventh graders “dumb” and “retards” when they misbehaved or answered questions incorrectly, and repeatedly singled out one particular student as a “failure” who “would never do anything in life.” But why stop at words? In one incident he grabbed a student by the neck for giving the wrong answer to a math question.
REACTION: After a 17-month investigation, state officials found Rivers guilty of “conduct unbecoming a teacher, administering corporal punishment, and insubordination.” He was put on unpaid leave for half a year.
UPDATE: The local school board appealed the state’s decision—They wanted River’s fired. But at last report, he was planning to return to the classroom. “I’m looking forward to being back on the job,” he told reporters.
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Concerning the subject of transgender, it's unfortunate that it's up to parents what they do to alter the physical makeup of their children's bodies. or what they teach their children is moral, compared to immoral, because, not knowing what else to do, (just as do psychologists and psychiatrists, who are parents), parents are inclined to make notoriously ridiculous decisions on behalf of their children.
If the child is determined to have a sex-change operation, wouldn’t it be best to tell the child to be patient until becoming an adult, and then make the decision? Because by then, the adult will have to live with the adult’s “own” decision.
After all, children are subject to peer pressure, and other than what the child says, there isn't any way of really knowing what that child is having for an experience, because of being young and impressionable, the child may not even know.
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After much physical and emotional suffering, when my daughter committed suicide, I was at peace with the idea that she would never have to suffer again. You might think that I was a wicked atheist, but in fact at the time, I was very religious, saturated with the idea that a Divine God existed, that in the afterlife, would never choose to harm a soul. Years later, at age 70, I became an Atheist, and for the last 11 years I still believe there isn't any suffering in an afterlife ... because I no longer believe in an afterlife. I am now inclined to believe Stephen Hawking’s No Boundary Proposal, which does away with the idea that the universe was created, and where he stated before he died, “I still believe the universe has a beginning in real time, at the big bang. But there’s another kind of time, imaginary time, at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end.”—Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes.
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I'm heterosexual and comfortable in my body. That doesn't mean that others feel the same about their bodies. If as adults they feel that they would be happier to change their sexual organs, that is their right, but from my perspective, they still won't fit anywhere in a society that believes there is only male and female. After all ... who is going to marry them, knowing that they changed their sexual organs? Who is going to be comfortable even having sex with them, knowing they changed their sexual organs from one gender to the opposite gender? In a world where so many people were taught "and believe" that a god created male and female ONLY ... it is almost impossible for those who are different to be accepted as "normal" ... or ... "moral."
Following is but one example ... Note the religious input in the following article from Human Life International, about those who say they want to transition back to their original state, before they had their transgender operations … “Regardless of the numbers, regret is real—and the numbers don’t really matter to those affected by a decision that they now regret and who feel misled by either doctors or families.
What they know is that they are hurting.
And as stewards of our brothers and sisters in Christ, it is our job to treat them with empathy, understanding, and compassion. It is our job to help them see the inherent dignity in themselves. And in both love and charity, it is our job to assist them as they seek help in moving forward.”
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