Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "JRE Clips"
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@Zripas I was born heterosexual. However, had I been born transgender … rather than Jordan Peterson … I would have been so fortunate to have had Neil deGrasse Tyson for a father.
From the book Starry Messenger … Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization … author Neil deGrasse Tyson … As you might suspect among branches of scientific inquiry, those most susceptible to human bias are fields that study and judge the appearance, conduct, and habits of other humans. Topping the list, find psychology, sociology, and especially anthropology. If they are to establish and preserve their integrity, these fields must engage extra levels of peer review and disclosure, with the express purpose of spotting bias.
One day, we may discover or otherwise affirm no discrete categories at all, as the multidimensional gender universe unfolds along a continuum, like the colors contained in sunlight. This will significantly dilute the power of homophobic and transphobic bigots to declare that they are somehow separate and distinct from other members of their own species.
Many people, who defend our cherished freedoms as citizens of the US, will argue against mandated masks, helmet laws, gun laws, seatbelts, and anything else that constricts a person from living the way they want. Odd that many of these same people will maintain or seek laws to restrict another person’s free expression of their gender identity.
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There is always more to learn … From the book … EPIGENETICS … HOW ENVIRONMENT SHAPES OUR GENES … author … RICHARD C. FRANCIS.
Here’s a puzzle, consider the case of two brothers, when each had reached the age of twenty. One of them—call him Al—was a typical male. His brother, Bo, however, was not at all typical of young males at that age. Bo looked more like a pre-adolescent male: poorly developed muscles, absolutely no facial hair, and a voice to match. Their mother was understandably worried about Bo, and soon after his twentieth birthday finally convinced him to see a doctor. Once Bo removed his clothes, the doctor immediately noticed that something was missing—his genitals. A closer inspection revealed that he did in fact have genitals but nothing like those you would expect of a twenty-year-old male. They seemed vestigial. The doctor’s diagnosis was Kallman syndrome, a disorder of sexual development. What’s puzzling is this: Al and Bo are identical twins, nature’s clones. So what happened to Bo? And why didn’t it happen to Al?
It is Possible but highly unlikely that Bo’s DNA mutated after the fertilized egg split, in which case the twins would be genetically different. It is much more likely that the differences in Al and Bo are epigenetic in nature. The term epigenetic refers to long-term alterations of DNA that don’t involve changes in the DNA sequence itself.
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@chadkline4268 And I suggest that you keep in mind that if someone gave us each a million dollars, and said, "You can have it, under the condition that you don't ask where the money came from," that neither one of us would care to ask.
I am fond of dirty money, because I don't believe that there is such a thing as clean money.
Even in the printing of the money, there is a human will to manipulate, and once the money touches human hands, it is downhill from there.
As citizens we're just not nice animals, so I suggest that we own that fact, and stop pointing at others as being the problem.
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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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