First of all, learning and understanding what it is to be human shows that we are creatures who literally NEED to create and share. That there is industry which literally seeks to create artificial limits on this and to control the supply of it is against nature and especially human nature. Common core is just the most recent example of how copyright issues are being used to extract more money from the public.
The whole of human knowledge and its legacy of creativity is being shrink-wrapped and packaged and controlled and it's completely tragic. There is something bigger than the notion that law is used to create and sustain a business model. There is a place and even a need for some limits, and it has to do with commercial exploitation of creative works for profit.
Some would say "information wants to be free" and that is a simplification. The reality is that teaching and sharing and creating are an inherent part of what it means to be human. What's truly wrong is taking that best part of our nature and putting limits on it and even destroying and losing parts of our human legacy in support of it. Due to current copyright laws, the lifetimes of copyright now exceed the life expectancy of the media the works are published on. The problems are real and obvious. The answer to the problem is sharing and constant copying and archiving.
A distinct, small and peculiarly non-contributing group of people are literally usurping human legacy. This is literally a crime against humanity of the worst type. If you think the dark ages was bad for humanity, then surely you must see how this is a darkness of its own.
Autism has started appearing in Africa following vaccines. Just google "world autism rates." You will see different regions have different rates but usually it can be attributed to the quality of and access to medical care and reporting.
First of all, just going to say it again. The definition or classification "autism" is too broad. Different people under the classification have different ranges of impairment. It needs to be broken down. In one area, Asperger's, it once was and has since been blocked in with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Why? (perhaps part of the larger trend of tyring to label more people as "mentally incompetent" as a means of separating people from their rights?) I don't know.
But instead of creating a broad classification and diagnosis, there needs to be increased study into variants and ranges of disability. Some people are just fine and are a bit awkward while others are completely incapable of taking care of themselves. It's inaccurate to simply put it all under that one umbrella and treat things under a "common core" and ultimately unhealthy to do so.
But the complete and utter resistance to seeking out causes blows me away. If one in 68 children were missing limbs at birth, there would be an international outcry. But because the impairment isn't readily visible, people want to ignore it and especially many want to deny it even exists at all seeking to classify it as a "choice" or "behavior disorder." Those people seem to be incredibly selective of their understandings of the connections between the body and the mind. On one hand we all agree and understand that hormone and other chemical balances of the body and especially nutrition and the use of drugs have a profound effect on the mind. Yet at the same time, there is a set of people who want to believe something entirely different despite knowing what they surely already know. (We're magical spirit creatures inhabiting bodies... ignore the fact that taking chemicals can change how your spirit creature feels and acts. People seem immeasurably incapable of connecting the body and the mind.)
Why aren't we investigating more? Why?!
This problem definitely fits the definition of "epidemic" and yet somehow it doesn't warrant investigation and study? Is it because important business models will be threatened? I believe that will be of high likelihood. Some might think it's worse than that and I hope that's not it but there are documented and unclassified cases where out very own US government really and truly has done things to people -- horrible and terrible things. Sometimes it was intentionally and other times perhaps out of wilful ignorance. The question of intent is important, but we do have some basic facts we can at least point to:
1. The rate is high and climbing still. 2. The problem isn't being studied properly.
That's enough for now. It needs to be proven or disproven. There's no need to go any deeper than that at this point.
I certainly agree with that sentiment. The best place to build a home would be a place infrequent of natural disasters. You know, like earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, volcanos and all that? Turns out that's pretty hard to do while also having access to vital resources and also reasonably close to civilization.
People love to live dangerously and famously. In placed like New York and California, they have both.
What amazes me about those places is property values. If I owned property in California, I'd sell. Same with New York. With California, it's mostly the land conditions and with New York, it's the people. Both peoples are full of themselves though. Their own politics are their own undoing. It's at least a little fun to watch them from a distance.
I used to think living in the country somewhere, a drive away from a WalMart but out where a man's rights are respected, was crazy talk. Now it seems like a nice way to lay back and watch the world spin.
Okay, you just sold me. I would be okay with becoming a super villain or super hero. I can't tell you how many times I've watched a news story of some form or brutality and wanted to be some invincible being who could teach those jerk-holes a lesson.
Yeah, I read that. But one of the main things about human animals is that we are "all about the brain." Our bodies are geared specifically for big brain development and maintaining that big brain. So what might not appear as damage to pigs (which are pretty close to humans in terms of brain configuration as well as taste... go ahead, ask me how I know) might actually appear in humans simply because we have no tests for pigs. Another pig might know but would have no way to tell us humans.
I seem to recall some horror film plots something like that. Usually it's something along the lines of zombies, but I also seem to recall something along the lines of preserving the lives of those who are supposed to be dead and something bad happening as a result. Combine the two? Uh boy... they are supposed to be dead and when "brought back" are actually spirited by demons or something like that.
I am extremely wary yet curious about the technique. To take a body and remove the blood and store it? I'm okay with doing that to a person officially declared dead especially if it's (1) approved by the living person in advance (2) someone extremely recently dead.
What is it about blood which causes problems which are solved by removing it? What's more, with all that capilary action, how can they be sure they removed it all?
Compassion only goes as far as a person's failure to take care of himself.
I get that other people aren't so lucky. There are lots of ways I am not so lucky. I never had my way with hot women the way some others do. Those are lucky people right? I'm certainly not rich or famous or powerful. But I do take responsibility for my life and that of my family. That's work, determination, not luck.
And if by compassion you mean that I should help pay the enormous profits of the medical and insurance companies so that people who can't take care of their health, smoking, drinking, doing drugs, eating frikken Fritos instead of salad can visit doctors who sell medicine instead of prevention? No. I don't have compassion for that. My money and resources need to go to my family.
And when you are asked what you are willing to give up so other people can have something they didn't earn, what will you give? How many things that you don't need do you own? Of those, how many are you willing to sell and donate the proceeds? If you aren't doing that now, don't talk to me or anyone else about compassion and luck.
It didn't suck. it resulted in practically royal treatment for my wife when she had our son. But outside of that and those regular visits and checks, it was fine.
Why? There's a lot of things I can't avoid and others I can. I do have a good and relatively clean genetic background. I eat as healthy as I know how with my wife cooking most meals at home -- she even makes our bread for us. I have fresh vegetables and lots more homemade stuff than most people get these days. And I certainly pay through the nose to get it -- my wife stays at home and I am a single income earner. That's an extreme compromise I admit, but the benefits are also pretty obvious.
I stay as far away from HFCS and other poisons as I possibly can. I have pretty much given up on excessively sweet things and have actually lost the taste and cravings for it over a decade ago. None of the things I do warrant writing a book. Just read articles on healthy living and ACTUALLY DO IT. That's where people fail the most. They just don't do it.
Would you believe that I have a fairly large salad EVERY DAY and on weekdays, TWICE a day. My wife makes my lunch, and that's what I get : salad and some kind of meat. That's fives days a week. Breakfast is also not terribly creative and defies what most people call healthy. Whole fried egg and large sausage patty on flat bread with cheese? A bit better than McDonald's. Again, nothing worth writing a book about.
And I drink water!! I have given up on soda almost completely. I drink unsweetened tea and V8 drinks too, but iced water with maybe a twist of lime or lemon is just great for me. Those changes from today's norm were not easy to make. And falling off of that wagon would probably be too easy except that I am just not "that guy." A personal sense of integrity isn't luck. You just have to do the things you know you should. And once again, THAT is where the majority fail.
Most health problems are COMPLETELY preventable. Jackasses out there just won't address the problems. Those jackasses are mostly food producers and government regulators, but also include people who make lots of life choices which compromise health for other things. The life choices I make are not easy ones and they aren't cheap ones. But I believe they are good ones.
Is there room for improvement? Oh yeah. I wish my wife would make better pizza. She's Japanese and doesn't vary her recipes or processes too much. Anyone who understands Japanese personalities understands what I'm talking about. But over all? The best improvements would come from the supply and regulatory side of things. One of my wife's friends moved from the US to Japan with her American husband. He was chubby here. A year in Japan and the weight just disappeared. Yes, he walks more, takes public transit and all that, but they eat mostly American style food there. What gives? Well, I'll tell you, after reading ingredients lists and the differences in food regulation in Japan, it's not hard to figure out what's different. I can't live in Japan though -- NO SAUSAGE and BACON... not as I know and love them anyway.
This is a long post. Enjoy the book I just wrote for you.
Depending on who you talk to, being male is a genetic disease... and so is being white.
This "required insurance law" is nothing new. In every single state where auto insurance requirements were written into law, average cost of insurance went up for just about everyone. Doing the same to medical insurance yielded predictable results.
I am a non-smoker, light drinker, healthy eater, regular exerciser who has never suffered a major health problem, I have perfect vision, no aches or pains or other annoyances. If you want to call that a matter of luck, you could say that. But what's not luck is that the law changed and now insurance for me is much higher because prior to the law, I enjoyed the lowest rates because I cost insurance companies NOTHING. But I will say this:
My mother had a mild diabetic condition and was a smoker. There is also obesity in my family. There is no known cancer in my family lines. I have taken measures in my own life's habits to avoid a range of foods and behaviors. That is not luck and frankly I believe it's why I am the only one of five sons that does not wear glasses. (They keep saying 'you'll get it too later...' and they said it 20 years ago. I think there may be something to the way I operate to defy my own family's genetic weaknesses.)
Yes, I paid lower rates for a coverage plan which completely covered my wife having our son. I think the deductible was like $200 or something. That was with three days in the hospital to relax and stuff. The plan was pretty awesome in that regard. But to go from about $250 a month to $1000? Something stinks here. There could be mitigating factors -- I could have advanced in age brakets, my location certainly changed. (I have heard more densely populated areas enjoy lower rates under Obamacare) But the high costs of healthcare insurance is caused by a wide range of things. The group has just expanded to include every obese, heart-diseased shmuck out there. That's NOT a group I am a member of and never have been before. Now we get to pay higher rates because we're more actively paying for fat-asses who can't choose to eat better food.
If you think because you disagree with what I have to say that my reasoning skills are at fault, I think you have the reasoning skills problem.
Fact is, pre-Obamacare, I was at about $250/mo for myself, my wife and my son covering medical and dental. Post-Obamacare, I'm now doing about $1000/mo. Exactly what reasoning skills do I need to notice that I have to pay a lot more for something I don't use?
As for Obamacare sucking? What do you expect when insurance companies write laws? Also, the law made a liar out of Obama. Either he didn't know and lied because he wasn't told about the details and content of the law or he knew and he's exactly as evil and deceitful as people believe. Either way, it's an unsuitable situation.
And what do I get for my trouble of paying for affordable healthcare I never used for all these years? QUADRUPLE THE RATE. Thanks a lot Obamacare.
Do you really think everyone matches one of two camps?
FYI: Atheist and Libertarian-Republican-Conservative leaning. (I don't subscribe to any party, I THINK for myself and judge individually) and no, Obama-care is hurting everyone except welfare people... which I believe I may need before long as things go on as they are.
Treating people different because they ARE different is inevitable. It's based on [limited/finite] experience of individuals. It's a feature and function of the animal brain. You cannot escape it. Pick any given label that makes you dislike someone. How about republican or conservative? How about Christian or Mulsim? How about terrorist or government? There's one in there somewhere. Oh, how about "some people." A nice vague one you used there. Can be used anywhere.
So just what do you mean by "some people?!" You must be some kind of -ist biggot!
I say it's all okay. What's not okay is being an asshole to people.
Every time I turn around there's a new -ism we never knew about. As long as there is a concept of race, there will be racism. As long as there is a concept of sex, there will be sexism. As long as we have an age, a religion, a sexual orientation, there's an -ism for that. And you know what? I think it's okay. Because that's exactly how the human brain... no scratch that, that's how all animal brains work.
We 'compress' knowledge and understanding into collections of criteria. Hot, cold, tall, short, heavy, light, blue, red and on and on. It's literally built into the mechanics of our animal brains and someone is out there trying to tell you that your brain is WRONG for thinking the way it does. Interestingly, unless these people people are from another planet (that's a whole different conspiracy discussion) they ALSO have animal brains and think that way. Of course, to think that way, you're supposed to hate yourself for being (white, black, male, female, straight or gay) and want to die.
So I ask you all. Who is frikken tired of this crap!?
It will continue to exist as long as people bow to the loud mouths. We have enough collective wisdom showing that he isn't telling the truth or representing the facts. Twenty years ago, we could claim we didn't know or understand. Today, we have mountains of data and research to prove out all of the problems associated with this issue.
I know when other people are around, I cannot use the bathroom. Just too caught up in knowing there are other people around. What if the birds had the same problem and since the people never went away, they just died.
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That is part of the noise of the problem.
A real investigation and real peer reviewed studies have been cried out for more than a decade on the topic. It's simply not allowed. Why?!
Your reality is actually quite distorted.
First of all, learning and understanding what it is to be human shows that we are creatures who literally NEED to create and share. That there is industry which literally seeks to create artificial limits on this and to control the supply of it is against nature and especially human nature. Common core is just the most recent example of how copyright issues are being used to extract more money from the public.
The whole of human knowledge and its legacy of creativity is being shrink-wrapped and packaged and controlled and it's completely tragic. There is something bigger than the notion that law is used to create and sustain a business model. There is a place and even a need for some limits, and it has to do with commercial exploitation of creative works for profit.
Some would say "information wants to be free" and that is a simplification. The reality is that teaching and sharing and creating are an inherent part of what it means to be human. What's truly wrong is taking that best part of our nature and putting limits on it and even destroying and losing parts of our human legacy in support of it. Due to current copyright laws, the lifetimes of copyright now exceed the life expectancy of the media the works are published on. The problems are real and obvious. The answer to the problem is sharing and constant copying and archiving.
A distinct, small and peculiarly non-contributing group of people are literally usurping human legacy. This is literally a crime against humanity of the worst type. If you think the dark ages was bad for humanity, then surely you must see how this is a darkness of its own.
Enough said?
Autism has started appearing in Africa following vaccines. Just google "world autism rates." You will see different regions have different rates but usually it can be attributed to the quality of and access to medical care and reporting.
First of all, just going to say it again. The definition or classification "autism" is too broad. Different people under the classification have different ranges of impairment. It needs to be broken down. In one area, Asperger's, it once was and has since been blocked in with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Why? (perhaps part of the larger trend of tyring to label more people as "mentally incompetent" as a means of separating people from their rights?) I don't know.
But instead of creating a broad classification and diagnosis, there needs to be increased study into variants and ranges of disability. Some people are just fine and are a bit awkward while others are completely incapable of taking care of themselves. It's inaccurate to simply put it all under that one umbrella and treat things under a "common core" and ultimately unhealthy to do so.
But the complete and utter resistance to seeking out causes blows me away. If one in 68 children were missing limbs at birth, there would be an international outcry. But because the impairment isn't readily visible, people want to ignore it and especially many want to deny it even exists at all seeking to classify it as a "choice" or "behavior disorder." Those people seem to be incredibly selective of their understandings of the connections between the body and the mind. On one hand we all agree and understand that hormone and other chemical balances of the body and especially nutrition and the use of drugs have a profound effect on the mind. Yet at the same time, there is a set of people who want to believe something entirely different despite knowing what they surely already know. (We're magical spirit creatures inhabiting bodies... ignore the fact that taking chemicals can change how your spirit creature feels and acts. People seem immeasurably incapable of connecting the body and the mind.)
Why aren't we investigating more? Why?!
This problem definitely fits the definition of "epidemic" and yet somehow it doesn't warrant investigation and study? Is it because important business models will be threatened? I believe that will be of high likelihood. Some might think it's worse than that and I hope that's not it but there are documented and unclassified cases where out very own US government really and truly has done things to people -- horrible and terrible things. Sometimes it was intentionally and other times perhaps out of wilful ignorance. The question of intent is important, but we do have some basic facts we can at least point to:
1. The rate is high and climbing still.
2. The problem isn't being studied properly.
That's enough for now. It needs to be proven or disproven. There's no need to go any deeper than that at this point.
High pay isn't high achievement unless that is how you measure high achievement.
I can't believe no one nibbled at that one. If you like documentaries, search one called "Eating with Cannibals." Fascinating. National Geographic.
I certainly agree with that sentiment. The best place to build a home would be a place infrequent of natural disasters. You know, like earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, volcanos and all that? Turns out that's pretty hard to do while also having access to vital resources and also reasonably close to civilization.
People love to live dangerously and famously. In placed like New York and California, they have both.
What amazes me about those places is property values. If I owned property in California, I'd sell. Same with New York. With California, it's mostly the land conditions and with New York, it's the people. Both peoples are full of themselves though. Their own politics are their own undoing. It's at least a little fun to watch them from a distance.
I used to think living in the country somewhere, a drive away from a WalMart but out where a man's rights are respected, was crazy talk. Now it seems like a nice way to lay back and watch the world spin.
Okay, you just sold me. I would be okay with becoming a super villain or super hero. I can't tell you how many times I've watched a news story of some form or brutality and wanted to be some invincible being who could teach those jerk-holes a lesson.
Yeah, I read that. But one of the main things about human animals is that we are "all about the brain." Our bodies are geared specifically for big brain development and maintaining that big brain. So what might not appear as damage to pigs (which are pretty close to humans in terms of brain configuration as well as taste... go ahead, ask me how I know) might actually appear in humans simply because we have no tests for pigs. Another pig might know but would have no way to tell us humans.
I was facetious about the horror-story side of things, however, to me the fate worse than death is a life-long disability.
I seem to recall some horror film plots something like that. Usually it's something along the lines of zombies, but I also seem to recall something along the lines of preserving the lives of those who are supposed to be dead and something bad happening as a result. Combine the two? Uh boy... they are supposed to be dead and when "brought back" are actually spirited by demons or something like that.
I am extremely wary yet curious about the technique. To take a body and remove the blood and store it? I'm okay with doing that to a person officially declared dead especially if it's (1) approved by the living person in advance (2) someone extremely recently dead.
What is it about blood which causes problems which are solved by removing it? What's more, with all that capilary action, how can they be sure they removed it all?
Compassion only goes as far as a person's failure to take care of himself.
I get that other people aren't so lucky. There are lots of ways I am not so lucky. I never had my way with hot women the way some others do. Those are lucky people right? I'm certainly not rich or famous or powerful. But I do take responsibility for my life and that of my family. That's work, determination, not luck.
And if by compassion you mean that I should help pay the enormous profits of the medical and insurance companies so that people who can't take care of their health, smoking, drinking, doing drugs, eating frikken Fritos instead of salad can visit doctors who sell medicine instead of prevention? No. I don't have compassion for that. My money and resources need to go to my family.
And when you are asked what you are willing to give up so other people can have something they didn't earn, what will you give? How many things that you don't need do you own? Of those, how many are you willing to sell and donate the proceeds? If you aren't doing that now, don't talk to me or anyone else about compassion and luck.
It didn't suck. it resulted in practically royal treatment for my wife when she had our son. But outside of that and those regular visits and checks, it was fine.
The TSA is merely a trial program for a much larger notion. Yes, people are next. They just have to scale out the TSA's operation.
Equal surveillance for all. It's more fair that way right?
Why? There's a lot of things I can't avoid and others I can. I do have a good and relatively clean genetic background. I eat as healthy as I know how with my wife cooking most meals at home -- she even makes our bread for us. I have fresh vegetables and lots more homemade stuff than most people get these days. And I certainly pay through the nose to get it -- my wife stays at home and I am a single income earner. That's an extreme compromise I admit, but the benefits are also pretty obvious.
I stay as far away from HFCS and other poisons as I possibly can. I have pretty much given up on excessively sweet things and have actually lost the taste and cravings for it over a decade ago. None of the things I do warrant writing a book. Just read articles on healthy living and ACTUALLY DO IT. That's where people fail the most. They just don't do it.
Would you believe that I have a fairly large salad EVERY DAY and on weekdays, TWICE a day. My wife makes my lunch, and that's what I get : salad and some kind of meat. That's fives days a week. Breakfast is also not terribly creative and defies what most people call healthy. Whole fried egg and large sausage patty on flat bread with cheese? A bit better than McDonald's. Again, nothing worth writing a book about.
And I drink water!! I have given up on soda almost completely. I drink unsweetened tea and V8 drinks too, but iced water with maybe a twist of lime or lemon is just great for me. Those changes from today's norm were not easy to make. And falling off of that wagon would probably be too easy except that I am just not "that guy." A personal sense of integrity isn't luck. You just have to do the things you know you should. And once again, THAT is where the majority fail.
Most health problems are COMPLETELY preventable. Jackasses out there just won't address the problems. Those jackasses are mostly food producers and government regulators, but also include people who make lots of life choices which compromise health for other things. The life choices I make are not easy ones and they aren't cheap ones. But I believe they are good ones.
Is there room for improvement? Oh yeah. I wish my wife would make better pizza. She's Japanese and doesn't vary her recipes or processes too much. Anyone who understands Japanese personalities understands what I'm talking about. But over all? The best improvements would come from the supply and regulatory side of things. One of my wife's friends moved from the US to Japan with her American husband. He was chubby here. A year in Japan and the weight just disappeared. Yes, he walks more, takes public transit and all that, but they eat mostly American style food there. What gives? Well, I'll tell you, after reading ingredients lists and the differences in food regulation in Japan, it's not hard to figure out what's different. I can't live in Japan though -- NO SAUSAGE and BACON... not as I know and love them anyway.
This is a long post. Enjoy the book I just wrote for you.
Depending on who you talk to, being male is a genetic disease... and so is being white.
This "required insurance law" is nothing new. In every single state where auto insurance requirements were written into law, average cost of insurance went up for just about everyone. Doing the same to medical insurance yielded predictable results.
I am a non-smoker, light drinker, healthy eater, regular exerciser who has never suffered a major health problem, I have perfect vision, no aches or pains or other annoyances. If you want to call that a matter of luck, you could say that. But what's not luck is that the law changed and now insurance for me is much higher because prior to the law, I enjoyed the lowest rates because I cost insurance companies NOTHING. But I will say this:
My mother had a mild diabetic condition and was a smoker. There is also obesity in my family. There is no known cancer in my family lines. I have taken measures in my own life's habits to avoid a range of foods and behaviors. That is not luck and frankly I believe it's why I am the only one of five sons that does not wear glasses. (They keep saying 'you'll get it too later...' and they said it 20 years ago. I think there may be something to the way I operate to defy my own family's genetic weaknesses.)
Yes, I paid lower rates for a coverage plan which completely covered my wife having our son. I think the deductible was like $200 or something. That was with three days in the hospital to relax and stuff. The plan was pretty awesome in that regard. But to go from about $250 a month to $1000? Something stinks here. There could be mitigating factors -- I could have advanced in age brakets, my location certainly changed. (I have heard more densely populated areas enjoy lower rates under Obamacare) But the high costs of healthcare insurance is caused by a wide range of things. The group has just expanded to include every obese, heart-diseased shmuck out there. That's NOT a group I am a member of and never have been before. Now we get to pay higher rates because we're more actively paying for fat-asses who can't choose to eat better food.
If you think because you disagree with what I have to say that my reasoning skills are at fault, I think you have the reasoning skills problem.
Fact is, pre-Obamacare, I was at about $250/mo for myself, my wife and my son covering medical and dental. Post-Obamacare, I'm now doing about $1000/mo. Exactly what reasoning skills do I need to notice that I have to pay a lot more for something I don't use?
That's not luck. It's paying attention.
As for Obamacare sucking? What do you expect when insurance companies write laws? Also, the law made a liar out of Obama. Either he didn't know and lied because he wasn't told about the details and content of the law or he knew and he's exactly as evil and deceitful as people believe. Either way, it's an unsuitable situation.
And what do I get for my trouble of paying for affordable healthcare I never used for all these years? QUADRUPLE THE RATE. Thanks a lot Obamacare.
Do you really think everyone matches one of two camps?
FYI: Atheist and Libertarian-Republican-Conservative leaning. (I don't subscribe to any party, I THINK for myself and judge individually) and no, Obama-care is hurting everyone except welfare people... which I believe I may need before long as things go on as they are.
I want to get up in front of people and tell them the truth. And I want to do it in your churches. And I want a cut of the money you collect as well.
Sound okay?
Treating people different because they ARE different is inevitable. It's based on [limited/finite] experience of individuals. It's a feature and function of the animal brain. You cannot escape it. Pick any given label that makes you dislike someone. How about republican or conservative? How about Christian or Mulsim? How about terrorist or government? There's one in there somewhere. Oh, how about "some people." A nice vague one you used there. Can be used anywhere.
So just what do you mean by "some people?!" You must be some kind of -ist biggot!
I say it's all okay. What's not okay is being an asshole to people.
Every time I turn around there's a new -ism we never knew about. As long as there is a concept of race, there will be racism. As long as there is a concept of sex, there will be sexism. As long as we have an age, a religion, a sexual orientation, there's an -ism for that. And you know what? I think it's okay. Because that's exactly how the human brain... no scratch that, that's how all animal brains work.
We 'compress' knowledge and understanding into collections of criteria. Hot, cold, tall, short, heavy, light, blue, red and on and on. It's literally built into the mechanics of our animal brains and someone is out there trying to tell you that your brain is WRONG for thinking the way it does. Interestingly, unless these people people are from another planet (that's a whole different conspiracy discussion) they ALSO have animal brains and think that way. Of course, to think that way, you're supposed to hate yourself for being (white, black, male, female, straight or gay) and want to die.
So I ask you all. Who is frikken tired of this crap!?
It will continue to exist as long as people bow to the loud mouths. We have enough collective wisdom showing that he isn't telling the truth or representing the facts. Twenty years ago, we could claim we didn't know or understand. Today, we have mountains of data and research to prove out all of the problems associated with this issue.
I know when other people are around, I cannot use the bathroom. Just too caught up in knowing there are other people around. What if the birds had the same problem and since the people never went away, they just died.