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Can We Save Ourselves From Isolating Ourselves? ….

2008-07-27T16:27:15-05:00

Okay,

So I was wondering, it seems like the past eight years people have become so messed up about sex/relationships etc.
It just seems like people don’t even take the time to get to know each other anymore- either that or they want to rush into something too quickly. And before this frame of time I’ve never noticed people seeming so disjointed about like in a practical and conservative way getting to know someone.
I know that it’s bad. I feel so sorry for people who aren’t just pretending to be cool and are more rejected by a population that feels so sorry for themselves. I mean like I look at the type of women who fit in more and its because they put themselves out there to be exploited because of their lack of self-esteem and their own self-hatred. I mean women don’t have to fall for the popular idea of what a “woman” is on MTV or whatever. I don’t like telling people what to do and I mean if people are going to wallow in self-pity well that’s their choice, but really, you can still be attractive and have talents and skills and be smart. It’s not an either/or situation. And as a man I’ll say that women when you are acting dumb and exploitable and down on yourselves its not attractive at all even if you are wearing gallons on gallons of 300$ perfume (which isnt attractive either- at least well its the complete inverse of having really bad b. o.). Does it really matter that much to seek approval? Especially as a young woman?! What would happen if it didn’t matter what people thought. Think about that. Just consider how it would be if people told you off and you had more freedom that way. Do you really want to be used and manipulated by a system that is so anti-feminine and trying to put yourself in a position to act like cattle or sheep? Look at the administration right now and how alpha-male warlike and antifertility and and old-school and puritanical it is. What would it be like if you said, “You know what? Fuck you!” What would it be like? And you have even more of an opportunity to do that if you are an attractive young woman than if you are an attractive young man.
There are men out there who are okay looked at as different and weird because yeah they like science-fiction or they are writers or whatever. But at the same time they mean no illwill to women. They are honest with women and act respectfully. Some are even awesome kissers and when you get to know them well they know how to really please a woman in the physical department. They don’t insult women and they shower and drive and don’t rape torture beat-up harrass women etc. Why they even don’t call too much. (And I hate it when a woman calls all the time. Trust me a guy who isn’t calling a bunch of times at once shows patience and he’s more likely to be a keeper.)
I mean, what even happened to getting to know someone? For example I don’t consider something a “relationship” or “going steady” or “heavy petting” or whatever you want to call it until after a year. It would take a year for a reasonable amount of time at least to get to know someone. Feeling like you can get to know someone or start anything even slightly “heavier” than “going out” with someone or “dating” someone after like one or two or three times of dating them is just retarded and codependent. And you wonder why a lot of women get into abusive or codependent relationships? Come on people?! Anyone who even mentions the word “relationship” after one or two dates is showing red flags.
Please, to any ladies reading this, or anyone who is related to any young women: Just give some of the geeks (especially the attractive ones) a chance. If you don’t understand something- well as long as you’re attracted to them and have enough in common with them- just ask them and try to understand and at least see if you have enough in common to understand where they’re coming from. I’d say at least give it six months of knowing them before deciding you’re bored with them. Especially if they’re so used to the rejection. And when you do that guess what? Less people will start acting stupid to impress people- and then the quality of life will improve because this generation of youth will treat themselves better and think better of themselves- which means that the market of consumers (the “youth” market of 16 to 18 to 20 to 30 somethings) will put out more energy into self-respect and self-worth. More guys will compete by actually taking pride in themselves. More young women will be attracted to that and more women will find confidence and self-esteem attractive. When people connect with each other and know each other for five or ten years they’ll have babies that will be more proud of themselves instead of cover the world with low self-esteem and self-hatred and there won’t be any more bringing more people wallowing in pity into the world. All it takes is a little bit of conservatively reaching out. I mean don’t just rush into things when you are getting to know somebody but don’t be so filled with being on the defensive before you even start to relate to someone. Have a normal middle-ground.
And please don’t call guys back from a blocked number telling them “let’s just be friends” (which everyone knows is usually translated as “it’s been fun- seeya") when obviously they won’t answer the blocked number and just leave them hanging. It’s almost better to lie to a man and make up something that was wrong with him after impulsively getting someone interested and pushing them away. And I mean if you like someone’s company come on- why the hell push them away so fast?! It’s retarded.
So, I promise that if you go to college with someone or work with someone or something who you want to date and they are just a little “misunderstood” that if you give them at least six months (within reason and respecting themselves) to feel them out you will be the better for it.
My second homework for any of the ladies or anyone related to the ladies in the group is to just tell the men who look down on you and want to exploit you “Fuck you! You are a dumbass!” I mean come on, you all don’t have to hook up with someone unemployed who is a coke dealer and bounces his checking account regularly and really can’t do anything for themselves but oh right they can get people ya-yo so based on that they’re hot shit. If you meet a man who acts like an idiot or an asshole just tell him. You see it’s easy? I know the first time you stand up for yourself can be hard and you have all these ideas of how you’re going to be lonely or whatever but hey guess what it really doesn’t matter in the end. You feel prouder afterwards and a lot more exhilerated! Make people respect you and stand your ground! Be opinionated! You don’t have to be down on yourself because it’s what all the other girls are doing! It’s so easy. Speak your mind! Wear that gorgeous outfit and walk in like you own the place and tell everyone who is draining you that they can go to hell. And you know what- reach out to that nice guy who is lonely and underappreciated! Maybe he’s just too far beyond what a lot of other young women’s standards are- and then just maybe you can be the envy of your dorm or apartment building! If anyone of you has any siblings that are in their 20s and you’re not too much older hang out with them at the bars and clubs and the social circles and laugh with them at all the dickless self-hating pathetic selfabsorbed wannabes. Introduce them to that lonely guy in the corner who isn’t bothering anybody and doesn’t have anyone to hang out with and is just trying to find a place to fit in so people can reach out to him. Tell her how cool that guy seemed and how he seemed to be doing a lot with college- or with writing short stories he wants to submit to “Analog” sci fi magazine- or the patents he wants to work on. Go ahead and have fun doing that with a few different guys with her. Make fun of all the people who are completely filled with absolute self-hatred and self-pity.

Christian Domestic Discipline—“Loving Wife Spanking in a Christian Marriage”

2007-08-24T23:54:04-05:00

http://christiandomesticdiscipline.com/blog.html

For reals.

The glossary is especially interesting:
http://christiandomesticdiscipline.com/Glossary.html

Aftercare: Comfort and physical care given to the wife after a punishment spanking.

Arnica Gel: A topical gel (usually aloe for its cooling effect) made from a flowering perennial plant, Arnica Montana, which is thought beneficial in healing bruises, swelling, and pain.

CDD: Acronym for Christian Domestic Discipline. An arrangement between a Christian married couple that involves the husband having authority in the household and enforcing that authority through spanking or other means of punishment.

Etc…

Internet Archive’s Music Selection Of The Day: “Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka”

2008-12-28T06:46:19-05:00

This recent Internet Archive selection is for a compilation with a bunch of DJ’s and artist’s interpretations of the “Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka” porn beat. Anyway the link is here:

Internet Archive Curator’s Pick: “Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka”

This album is released under the Creative Commons Attribution License for those who are curious. So you can openly copy tracks and put them on your Myspace as well as remixed versions as long as you give the artist credit without getting paranoid.

My personal favorite: “Suck My Disc” by SonnyJim, because I like the beats and it reminds me of the course my sex-life has taken over the last two years.

Internet Porn: Worse than Crack

2008-05-09T22:38:48-05:00

Internet Porn: Worse Than Crack?
Ryan Singel 11.19.04 | 11:00 AM
Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday.

Witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee’s Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee spared no superlative in their description of the negative effects of pornography.

Mary Anne Layden, co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Cognitive Therapy, called porn the “most concerning thing to psychological health that I know of existing today.”

“The internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused and have role models for these behaviors,” Layden said. “To have drug pumped into your house 24/7, free, and children know how to use it better than grown-ups know how to use it—it’s a perfect delivery system if we want to have a whole generation of young addicts who will never have the drug out of their mind.”

Pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their addiction than cocaine addicts, since coke users can get the drug out of their system, but pornographic images stay in the brain forever, Layden said.

Jeffrey Satinover, a psychiatrist and advisor to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality echoed Layden’s concern about the internet and the somatic effects of pornography.

“Pornography really does, unlike other addictions, biologically cause direct release of the most perfect addictive substance,” Satinover said. “That is, it causes masturbation, which causes release of the naturally occurring opioids. It does what heroin can’t do, in effect.”

The internet is dangerous because it removes the inefficiency in the delivery of pornography, making porn much more ubiquitous than in the days when guys in trench coats would sell nudie postcards, Satinover said.

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), the subcommittee’s chairman, called the hearing the most disturbing one he’d ever seen in the Senate. Brownback said porn was ubiquitous now, compared to when he was growing up and “some guy would sneak a magazine in somewhere and show some of us, but you had to find him at the right time.”

The hearing came just days after a controversy over a sexually suggestive Monday Night Football ad that has many foreseeing a crackdown on indecency by the Federal Communications Commission.

It is unclear what the consequences of Thursday’s hearing will be since it was not connected to any pending or proposed legislation.

Brownback, a conservative Christian, is also scheduled to be rotated off the sub-committee in the next session.

When Brownback asked the panelists for suggestions about what should be done, the responses were mild, considering their earlier indictment of pornography. Several suggested that federal money be allocated to fund brain-mapping studies into the physical effects of pornography.

Judith Reisman of the California Protective Parents Association suggested that more study of “erototoxins” could show how pornography is not speech-protected under the First Amendment.

The panelists all agreed that the government should fund health campaigns to educate the public about the dangers of pornography. The campaign should combat the messages of pornography by putting signs on buses saying sex with children is not OK, said Layden.

However, as the panelists themselves acknowledged, there is no consensus among mental health professionals about the dangers of porn or the use of the term “pornography addiction.”

Many psychologists and most sexologists find the concepts of sex and pornography addiction problematic, said Carol Queen, staff sexologist for the San Francisco-based, woman-owned Good Vibrations.

Queen questioned the validity of the panel for not including anyone who thinks “pornography is not particularly problematic in most people’s lives.”

Queen acknowledges she can name people who have compulsive and destructive behavior centered on pornography, but argues that can happen with other activities, such as gambling and shopping.

Queen also criticized the methodology behind research showing that pornography stimulates the brain like drugs do, saying the research needs to take into account how sex itself stimulates the brain.

“There’s no doubt the brain lights up when sexually aroused,” Queen said.

Queen too would like to see more money devoted to research on sex, but thinks it is unlikely that researchers on either side of the divide are likely to receive large grants any time soon.

Studies intended to show the harmful effects of pornography must contend with ethical rules prohibiting harm to human subjects, while sex researchers have a hard time getting any funding, unless their study is specifically HIV-related, according to Queen

Brilliant logic all around.

The Magical Penis Theives

2008-08-19T18:54:15-05:00

A mind dismembered:
In search of the magical penis thieves

According to Ilechukwu, an epidemic of penis theft swept Nigeria between 1975 and 1977. Then there seemed to be a lull until 1990, when the stealing resurged. “Men could be seen in the streets of Lagos holding on to their genitalia either openly or discreetly with their hand in their pockets,” Ilechukwu wrote. “Women were also seen holding on to their breasts directly or discreetly, by crossing the hands across the chest. . . . Vigilance and anticipatory aggression were thought to be good prophylaxes. This led to further breakdown of law and order.” In a typical incident, someone would suddenly yell: Thief! My genitals are gone! Then a culprit would be identified, apprehended, and, often, killed.

During the past decade and a half, the thievery seems not to have abated. In April 2001, mobs in Nigeria lynched at least twelve suspected penis thieves. In November of that same year, there were at least five similar deaths in neighboring Benin. One survey counted fifty-six “separate cases of genital shrinking, disappearance, and snatching” in West Africa between 1997 and 2003, with at least thirty-six suspected penis thieves killed at the hands of angry mobs during that period. These incidents have been reported in local newspapers but are little known outside the region.

Much more at the link. Brilliant story.

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082063

THIS WHOLE TOXOPLASMA THING

2007-03-25T21:48:09-05:00

The Hump Jones article:
http://humpjones.com/?p=28

Further readings

SEED Magazine article:
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/08/the_cultureshaping_parasite.php?page=all&p=y

In a paper published in the online edition of Proceedings of the Royal Society, United States Geological Survey researcher Kevin Lafferty argues that a significant factor in why some countries exhibit higher levels of neuroticism than others may be the prevalence of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. The study also indicates that it may influence a society’s preference for strict laws, an expression of uncertainty avoidance, and its valuation of ‘masculine’ priorities such as competitiveness and financial success over ‘feminine’ values like relationship-building.

“Toxoplasma appears to explain 30% of the variation in neuroticism among countries, 15% of the uncertainty avoidance among Western nations and 30% of the sex role differences among Western nations,” Lafferty said via e-mail.

Lafferty analyzed preexisting data on Toxoplasma prevalence and mean trait levels in 39 countries. He found a significant linear correlation between latent Toxoplasma prevalence and neuroticism with a few outliers, including the unusually neurotic nations of Hungary and China and the notably easygoing Turkey.

CDC “Factsheet” on Toxoplasma
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/toxoplasmosis/factsht_toxoplasmosis.htm

The sky is still falling after all these years

2007-08-06T02:40:33-05:00

http://www.humpjones.com/rear/entry/the_sky_is_still_falling_after_all_these_years/

I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

You summed my thoughts up really well with this article. Ever since I learned about our debt-based economy I’ve been telling people I know that our economy is going to crash someday worse than the Great Depression. Needless to say no-one really believed me, especially since I was giving time-tables for it to happen. I’ve learned to not go down that road. It’s really unbelievable, if you continue the analogy of yours about our monetary system/economy; it went over the edge sometime around the 70’s/80’s and at that point it was going so fast it actually got some air on take off. Basically after everyone decided that paying with plastic was a nifty advancement in human ingenuity. It made it seem as if instead of entering a point of no-return we were entering an unending age of prosperity. Then it culminated in the fall of the Russian Empire, which we got to take full advantage of by shipping billions of dollars into their economy to stop it from crashing. The constant acceleration now is just going to make the crash all the harder.

So what I propose is that we ride this bitch as hard as we can. What’s the point in letting up now? With a little hope we can crash it so hard that not even the wealthy folks will be able to make money on reviving it.

We need to get out of this cyclical bullshit somehow anyways. Is it just me or does it seem like humanity has been here before?

Power, Sex, Suicide

2008-04-06T02:16:12-05:00

http://books.google.com/books?id=gMOIt0qNcEMC&printsec=frontcover

I’ve only read the first chapter of this but it’s really interesting. If you think about it our cells are made up of seperate parts that at some point in history evolved together from a once independent state. What makes it stay together? Especially our mitochondria which was once an independent bacteria. Was that a symbiotic relationship, or did our cells at some point in the past takeover the mitochondria and enslave it. Is Cancer the rebellion of mitochondria? Or did mitochondria infect the host cells and just never leave? All interesting questions that we will probably only be able to guess at.

That preview has a lot of the book, here’s a passage from the first page:

Mitochondria are tiny organelles inside cells that generate almost all our energy in the form of ATP. On average there are 300-400 in every cell, giving ten million billion in the human body. Essentially all complex cell contain mitochondria. They look like bacteria, and appearances are not deceptive: they were once free-living bacteria, which adapted to life inside larger cells some two billion years ago. They retain a fragment of a genome as a badge of former independence. Their tortuous relations with their host cells have shaped the whole fabric of life, from energy, sex, and fertility, to cell suicide, aging, and death.

P.S. If anyone can find a full version of this book it would be nice to get a copy

From ‘gay plague’ to global tragedy: An AIDS anniversary

2008-05-18T12:11:11-05:00

Am I the only one that finds this title insanely hilarious? Doesn’t it seem like how you’d name a T.V. special for some show. Makes me feel bad that I’m getting so much humour out of so much death, but why feel bad about the Kali Yuga. If life gives you millions of dead make a funny title out of it.

http://www.physorg.com/news130324834.html

The campaign against AIDS marks an important anniversary this week, bringing to mind victories of science and the human spirit but also defeats, stigma and ignorance in a combat that has claimed more lives than World War I.

Here are landmarks in the history of AIDS:

- 1920s or 1930s (speculated): Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which destroys immune cells in apes, leaps the species barrier to humans after a bushmeat hunter in Western-Central Africa is bitten by an infected animal or handles infected meat.

- 1981: Eight young homosexuals in New York are diagnosed with Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a skin cancer that usually occurs in older people, while five Los Angeles gays fall sick with a rare form of pneumonia. These clusters alert the US authorities to something new: a disease that wrecks the immune system and exposes the body to opportunistic disease.

- 1982: AIDS gets its name—acquired immune deficiency syndrome. A 20-month-old child dies from AIDS-related infection after a blood transfusion, providing first clear signs that AIDS can be transmitted by other than homosexual contact.

- 1983: France’s Pasteur Institute, led by Luc Montagnier, isolates a virus that penetrates white blood cells, causing AIDS. They call the agent lymphadenopathy-associated virus, or LAV. The first signs, derived from African men in Europe, emerge that heterosexuals can become infected, unleashing widespread anxiety.

- 1984: US scientist Robert Gallo announces he has isolated the virus that causes AIDS, calling it HTLV-III, but it becomes clear that the agent is the same as LAV, identified a year earlier in France.

- 1986: The agent that causes AIDS becomes officially known as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

- 1987: First anti-HIV drug, azidovudine (AZT) is approved after trials showed it slowed, but did not halt, the progress of the virus. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces his son has died of AIDS, a landmark in the campaign against stigma in Africa. US President Ronald Reagan, who had been accused of neglecting AIDS, delivers speech that describes the disease as “public enemy No.1.”

- 1990: Death of Ryan White, a young American HIV-infected haemophiliac whose barring from school because of HIV infection unleashed a campaign against AIDS prejudice.

- 1991: Death of Freddy Mercury, lead singer of the rock group Queen. US basketball star Earvin “Magic” Johnson announces he has HIV.

- 1995: Two new classes of anti-HIV drugs, also targeting replication, are approved: protease inhibitors and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Used in combination, they can reduce the viral load to below detectable levels, an achievement that triggers optimism that a cure has been found.

- 1996: United Nations sets up the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS). Epidemic starts to worsen in eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, India, China.

- 1997: Number of AIDS deaths drops in the United States for first time since 1981.

- 1998: Hopes that the antiretroviral “cocktail” is a cure are dashed. Evidence emerges of HIV “reservoirs” where the virus holes up and rebounds if the drugs are stopped.

- 2000: Southern Africa becomes the epicentre of what is now a global pandemic. In Botswana, up to one in four adults and 40 percent of pregnant women have HIV. South African President Thabo Mbeki is attacked around the world for questioning that AIDS is caused by HIV. Drugs companies start to cut prices for poor countries. UN states call for spread of HIV/AIDS to be halted and thrown into reverse by 2015 as part of Millennium Development Goals.

- 2001: Indian drugs company Cipla vows to make cheap generics of AIDS medications, heaping pressure on multinationals to cut prices further. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan calls for an AIDS “war chest” of between seven to 10 billion dollars per year, compared to the one billion currently being spent. AIDS becomes leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa.

- 2002: The Global Fund for Fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria starts to make its first allocations.

- 2003: US President George Bush unveils plans to spend 15 billion dollars over five years to combat AIDS in Africa and Caribbean. First HIV vaccine to undergo a full trial proves to be a flop. New WHO Director General Lee Jong-Wook names AIDS as his top priority, calls for three million poor people to get access to antiretrovirals by end of 2005. In a landmark gesture, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao becomes first premier of his country to publicly shake the hands of an AIDS patient. Cost of antiretrovirals plummets, helped by World Trade Organisation (WTO) deal allowing poor, vulnerable countries to import generics.

- 2005: WHO’s “Three by Five” initiative falls far short of goal, reaching only 1.3 million out of a hoped-for three million. But it is also praised for mobilising political commitment and funds and building medical infrastructure.

- 2008: An estimated 33 million people now living with HIV or AIDS, according to end-2007 estimate by UNAIDS. AIDS deaths in 2007 totalled two million, including 290,000 children, and there were 2.4 million new infections.

Does the Earth’s Magnetic Field Cause Suicide?

2008-04-26T18:03:34-05:00

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13769-does-the-earths-magnetic-field-cause-suicides.html

Shumilov looked at activity in the Earth’s geomagnetic field from 1948 to 1997 and found that it grouped into three seasonal peaks every year: one from March to May, another in July and the last in October.

Surprisingly, he also found that the geomagnetism peaks matched up with peaks in the number of suicides in the northern Russian city of Kirovsk over the same period.

Shumilov acknowledges that a correlation like this does not necessarily mean there is a causal link, but he points out that there have been several other studies suggesting a link between human health and geomagnetism.