Collected Truths about Unreal Things
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)Posted on 01/02/2012
Information overload lets people choose, as if their minds were grazing over a smorgasbord of appetizers, focusing on just a few that might complement one another and which we have had the experience of enjoying in the past. The nature of belief permits people to choose what they want to believe, the positions and attitudes in which they become deeply conversant. Sometimes, it's necessary to distort information, create a soupy amalgam of similar and discordant facts, to offer support and sustenance a belief system, no matter how unpalatable such a system may be to rationality.
God, Allah, Angels, Jesus as the son of God Rather Than a Man, or Any Unseeable God or Being and Any Action Attributed to Unseeable Supreme Beings
Heaven/Hell/Afterlife/Purgatory
Some Muslims misinterpret the Koran and feel that as martyrs, they will be rewarded with 72 virgins in heaven. Even a correct interpretation of any text suggesting that a heaven exists would be factually incorrect.
Creationism
(It is not okay to teach lies and nonsense because such teaching displaces real sense and real knowledge and real facts unless fake is juxtaposed with real to demonstrate the incorrectness of the lies. Lies waste brain cells. Kids should not be consumed with teachings about myths and God.)
The psychological disorder in which patients who believe that life is ordered in sequence is called Deca disorder entropy (a measure of the disorder or randomness of a system).
All Knowingness or Omniscience
Being Blessed or Having a Chosen Status
Some chosen statuses are chosen by people. 10-year-old Nepalese former living goddess, Sajani Shakra, had her goddess title revoked because someone else bestows titles and makes rules (that travel will be cause to revoke status) and has the power to tell Hindus and Buddhists who to worship (goddesses are selected when they are between 2 and 4 years old).
Divine Will
All Prayer in the Absence of Physical Action
Prayer and wishful thinking are similar passionate desires for a result, no matter how big or small, helpful or selfish.
Spiritual Possession and Exorcism
Soul
The Unknown as God
automatically becoming the product of God or divine beings in the universe that can’t be known or understood
Evil
All Faith Healing
Holy Healing Water
Water will not heal, unless dehydration is one’s ailment. Water from a spring at a site where someone saw an apparition and to which thousands conduct a pilgrimage has no curative properties
Homeopathic Medicine
the concept that like cures like, meaning that if your baby has diaper rash, you should use infinitesimally diluted poison ivy oil to treat the rash) snake venom cure, etc.
Chiropractic
Bioharmonics
Ohm
word that has no healing power or medical benefit
Acupuncture and Acutonics (the use of tuning forks, or Earth forks, directed to acupuncture points), and Qigong
Carmen Kolz, 50, of Dayton “said acupuncture
treatments helped her avoid a hysterectomy for menopause-related symptoms. They
also have alleviated heartburn.
“It’s worth paying out of pocket, she said, ‘to be
able to avoid surgery.’”
Acupuncture is never a substitute for any medical
condition whose consensus treatment is surgical removal or correction, which
indicates that this acupuncture patient never experienced a condition that
required a hysterectomy, and hysterectomies have been the number one unnecessary
operations performed in the United States.
has no real medical benefit
Nonmassaging Laying of One’s Hands to Cure the Sick
Therapeutic touch is near touch that is supposed to rearrange the nonexistent energy. Light Touching does not heal.
Chi and Any Balancing Attributed to a Human Body’s Life Energy Fields
Wilhelm Reich, purveyor of Orgone Accumulators - boxes wherein patients could sit to absorb the orgone energy accumulated within.
Raiki
(Japanese hovering of hands in the air over a pained area of a patient’s body to correct the pain)
Chakras
(East Indian name for energy areas in the body)
Visualization Healing
In visualization healing, patients are asked to imagine that their cancerous tumors are made of wood and to visualize that the medicine is an army of termites who eat away at the tumor, has no efficacy in making the medicine work more effectively.
Koranic Healing
healing which consists of chanting verses from the Koran
Holy Rock (Shna Ndo)
in Albania named after a traveler who purportedly performed miracles, much as touching the rock is said to do
Holy Dirt in a Santa Fe Church
which can heal if you rub it on your body
Koran-Washed Drinking Water
that has been poured over a board containing verses from the Koran written in washable ink can’t cure the sick in a Sudanese ceremony
Blessed/Holy Water
Vitamin water blessed to ensure the drinker finds love and peace and happiness, including water “infused with wishes for ‘love,’ ‘joy’ and ‘perfect health’ via the words, symbols and colors on the label.
Holy water will not heal, unless dehydration is one’s ailment. Water from a spring at a site where someone saw an apparition and to which thousands conduct a pilgrimage has no curative properties
Animal Sacrifice
Santeria Ceremony in which a rooster is sacrificed while prayers are chanted for someone sick
Holy Images
Bowenwork Massage
Australian physical therapist Tom Bowen developed a massage of sequences of rolling movement at nerve receptor points in tendons, muscles and ligament to help the body to "remember" how to heal itself, though in fact, the massage reduces muscular tension, pain, and inflammation. Practitioners are careful to counsel against getting other alternative therapies while in massage treatment, to avoid interference with the therapeutic efficacy of the Bowenwork treatment--only one fake treatment at a time, New Agers.
All images of holy personages on toast, windows, rocks, etc. purported to be divine signs
Purification Rituals
Health Benefits of Colonic Irrigation/Enema Cleansings
According to Georgetown University researchers, colonic irrigation, which is the manual flushing of waste from the human colon with fluids, typically water, but also coffee in coffee enemas, has no healthful benefits and actually diminishes health due to the extraction of healthy bacteria in the colon that breaks down waste.
You are NOT what you eat. You are what your body makes of what you eat.
Hindu Cleansing
practice in Indonesia called Melasti that makes its practitioner/recipient pure for another year
Ingestion Transference
Believing that cutting up and eating the body parts of African albinos can cure is not only immoral, but irrational superstition. Believing that dust from the compacted hair of a rhinoceros’s horn can enhance libido is unproven. Absorption of an enemy’s power by drinking his blood or absorption of someone’s essence by cannibalizing him
Blessed Chocolate
affected by special recording devices that capture the electromagnetic brain waves of meditating Tibetan monks: Talking to food doesn’t make it better for those who eat it
vitamins haven’t been shown to be that helpful, but now a company called H2Om in California is selling water “infused with wishes for ‘love,’ ‘joy’ and ‘perfect health’ via the words, symbols and colors on the label (which ‘create a specific vibratory frequency’.” A Canadian company embeds positive energy by making statements over each shipment of its protein powder. “Intentional Chocolate, founded in 2007 by chocolatier Jim Walsh, uses a special recording device to capture the electromagnetic brain waves of meditating Tibetan monks; Walsh then exposes his confections to the recording for five days per batch.” (Kornfeld).
Talking to food doesn’t make it better for those who eat it. Mood and spirit improvement over and above the nutritional value imparted in foods is not possible; only the eater’s mind can transform the spirituality gimmick into a placebo effect and feel greater self-satisfaction.
One of the cited blessing experts for the “Mind over Chocolate” article: “Still, not everyone is keen on the idea of packaging spirituality. Once the profit motive comes into play, ‘it’s difficult to keep things pure,’ says George Churinoff, a monk at a Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wis….” But, the profit motive is the only pure reality in the entire scam. The spirituality is what’s bogus, and marketers realize that profit makes it worthwhile to them to exploit the idiocy of their potential consumers.
Healing Crystals
Bio-identicals
as advocated by Suzanne Somers
Meditation Bringing about Actual External Change
Deep Breathing Being Cleansing or Yielding Different Energy than Normal Breathing
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation/Magnet Therapy
in which magnets are placed on either side of the outer head at the temples, does not disrupt the neural activity or divest a person of his moral center of decision making and judgment
Hindu Spirituality or Any Spirituality Based on Some Unknown but Supernatural Power
Native American superstitions about animals and nature. “The Cherokee believed that the sun was a young woman who lived in the East. The moon was her brother and lived in the west.”
The Australian Aborigines believe that “in the beginning the Great Spirit Balame (Byamee) created man and woman and they in turn had the responsibility to create the animals and birds which they did by either singing them into form or sounding them into form through playing the Didjeridu.”
Candle Therapy
An energy-imparting ceremony in Venezuela called velación (candle therapy) in which a patient with unspecified health complaints lies on a talcum drawing on the ground among lit candles and has flower petals tossed on him
Whip Therapy
In response to whip therapy to cure depression by the pain releasing natural endorphins, depressed guy says: "Are you KIDDING me?"
A report by Russian scientists in Siberia called “Methods of painful impact to treat addictive behavior,” indicates that depressed people have low production of endorphins, and that causing these patients physical pain, such as the kind that results from whipping them, activates endorphin receptors, and the depression goes away.
Wishful/Magical/Mystical Thinking
that is alleged to exert kinetic force on any object or being and is indigenous any of a number of cultures
Gateway Drugs
Immortality/Fountain of Youth (all Youth-Regenerating Products)
Natural Talent or Natural Intelligence
as differentiated from instinct (people work for their successes--making skill appear to be innate is a result of hard work)
Vampires/Werewolves/Witches/Zombies/Ghosts/Spirits/ Demons/Devils/Fairies/Tooth Fairy/Gnomes/Goblins/ Trolls/Dragons/Gorgons/ Leprechauns/Elves/Pixies/ Easter Bunnies/Big Foot/Yeti (and Other Hairy Bipeds AKA Chubacabras, etc.)/Loch Ness (and other Lake Monsters) and All Monsters of Any Variety that Cannot Be Scientifically Categorized
About one in five Americans believes he has has seen or been in the presence of a ghost.
Fairy Dust
Spirits and All Beliefs Related to Spirits
such as a spiritual connection to other people or to the earth
According to Holt in a review of the book entitled Debunked! written by French physicists Georges Charpak and Henri Broch, “The basic idea behind the horoscope is that the positions of the sun and planets at the time of birth determine your fate. The mechanism by which this happens has never been clear.” Horoscope “predictions are so vague that people can always manage to see them as containing some truth. If you read, ‘Today is a day for big decision,’ it could move you to ponder matters and be more reflective about your life” and the description may actually prompt some people to make a big decision they’ve been putting off" (Holt).
Homes Contaminated with Evil Spirits
Luck
Metaphors for Reality
that are real as symbols only and often distort truth and objective reality (Metaphors and symbolic representations of reality rather than the reality represented)
Alternate Realities
Parallel Universes
Reincarnation/Past Lives
"A quarter of Americans believe in reincarnation" (Sagan, Haunted, p. 203), just as a quarter of Americans believe in psychics, astrology and ghosts (Stossel, Million).
Karma/Poetic and Immanent Justice
(one injustice balanced by another injustice, or two justices cancelling out/balancing one another, depending on what one/each party defines as justice)
Belief in a just world puts our minds at ease: Even if things are beyond our control, they happen for a reason. The idea of arbitrary pain and suffering is just too much for many people to bear, and the need for moral order may help explain the popularity of religion; in fact, just-worlders are more religious than others. Faith in cosmic jurisprudence starts early. Harvard psychologists showed that kids ages 5 to 7 like a child who found $5 on the sidewalk more than one whose soccer game got rained out.
But belief in a just universe can also prevent one from fighting for more justice—the blame-the-victim effect. If a test subject is submitted to painful shocks that he can't escape, people think less of him; it's comforting to assume that he must deserve it somehow" (Hutson).
Some believe so strongly in past lives, that they feel that interference from past lives requires that the past life ghosts require therapy, and so a New Ager fraud puts together a seminar to calm the aura of those whose spirits have moved into our bodies.
Karmic Schism. People believe in many untrue things. People often hope that the world is just. Karma, the wish that people will get what they deserve, whether good or bad, is such a belief. It's like poetic justice. People believe because not to means they have to act on their conscience to ensure justice. People are afraid to act on their conscience because it often demands sacrifice. Sacrifice is noble and honorable, but in the real world, not practical when the benefits accrue to others and very little to oneself. Not to act on conscience is to realize that we are morally imperfect, a truth many cannot face in themselves. If we don't adhere to our higher standards and principles and ensure justice, if we don't confront others who impede and violate justice, holding them accountable by showing them the real adverse consequences that we will assuredly inflict, we fail in our personal obligation, in our esteem for ourselves.
It is easier to believe that others will ensure this justice. That is why people believe in Karma.
Confidently dismissing supernaturalism, immanent justice, and superstition allows me to hold others personally responsible and culpable for their actions.
Sophisticated Animal Language/Human Language Communication with Animals
Hyperkinesis and Spoon Bending
Ouija Boards Answering Questions
Parapsychology
Paranormal Activity/Anything Extra or Para or Supernormal or Supernatural
In December of 2009, The Pew Research Center surveyed 2,003 adults about whether or not they had ever had supernatural experiences. The 18 percent who had seen a ghost was quite an increase from a survey in 1996, which only found that 9 percent of Americans had seen an apparition.
Ghosts are hallucinations and misperceptions. If we think we see someone we've known who has died, or someone that others, such as innkeepers, haunted house managers, etc., have told us have died but live on, these ghosts are based on our desire to visit an learn more about the afterlife or about the unfinished deeds in a formerly unknown deceased person's life that keeps his or her spirit at unrest. But, of course, people don't have spirits or souls, so there is no failure to crossover that invigorates a ghost of one's former self to the spirit world or to heaven, because neither of those exist, either.
The human brain sees what we want to see. The sleep deprived, the feverish, those in REM sleep patterns, sufferers of traumatic emotional experiences, and hallucinogenic drug abusers are more likely to report seeing ghosts or unexplained waves in the air or unidentified sounds in the night.
Ghost eradication, irradiation, and illumination are big businesses, and many hucksters depend on others' belief in ghosts.
Ego, Id, Superego, Subconscious
All artificial constructions devised by psychiatrists and psychologists to explain personality or personality development that cannot be seen or measured.
You are either conscious or unconscious
Voodoo
How it works: those who believe in the spell become so worried and so cautious, they bring about their own disaster.
Curses, Hexes, Spells, Mean Looks, Wishful Thinking
Tarot Cards/Palmistry/Crystal Balls/Fortune Telling/Reflection Cards/Horoscopes/Chinese Calendar Horoscopes/Astrology/Reading of Tea Leaves in a Cup or Animal Entrails or Economic Indicators to Accurately Predict the Future
Telepathy/Clairvoyance/Extrasensory Perception (ESP)/Human or Animal Psychic Powers
"The only thing wrong with using psychics for police work is that they don't work. In those instances where they have been involved in criminal investigations, their inspirations are typically limited to vague suggestions and/or ambiguous clues. Comments like "Listen for a barking dog" or "I see something broken near water" are useless at the time but can appear to have been meaningful after all the facts are known...especially when you combine several such statements. At that point, chance alone would dictate that you're almost certain to find something that might appear, in retrospect, to have been relevant. Then too, keep in mind that the public is apt to concentrate on hits while ignoring misses and that psychics are not above reworking their pronouncements as the case develops and that relevant bits of information can often be gleaned by simply reading newspaper accounts of the crime.
"Just think about it. If an individual had the power to see the past why wouldn't they be spending their time finding lost treasures? And if they could really look into the future, it would mean an end to the concept of free will. It would mean that everything to come has already been decided. Why bother getting out of bed? Indeed, if psychics had even a fraction of the power they pretend to have, why aren't they fabulously successful instead of being relegated to tawdry Tarot shops in rundown strip malls...and why would they have to ask your name when you came through the door?" (Mason)
"The belief in telepathy is deeply rooted in many of us, and not only science fiction fans. Mothers ring their daughters thousands of miles away, and their daughters say, "How did you know? I was just thinking of you". We walk into a room and we just get a feeling about someone: it is as if we knew what they were thinking, and what they will say next,"
Professors of parapsychology--and there are a few--have been unable to replicate these results in the laboratory. Minds they have to conclude cannot pass thoughts or images to other minds directly. Perhaps this should not be a surprise. After all, we do pass thoughts and images to each other pretty effectively by speaking, drawing, singing, and so on. More to the point, our minds are our own, and we want them to remain so. We fight to keep our original thoughts. So is telepathy just wishful thinking, born out of our wish to be close to our loved ones and not feel that they have minds that will be forever closed to us? Or is it a more general feeling against the scientists and others who seem to want to reduce everything to atoms without allowing for the connectedness that joins us to the universe? (Tantam)
Most sophisticated people understand that any assertions of having telepathic ability is a trick. "Telepathically conveying the identity of a playing card to a person in another city" is easy, according to Holt. "The secret is to have a system in which a different first name is associated with each card in the deck. If the card is, say, the ace of diamonds, you tell the people testing you to ask for ‘Bob’ Smith when they phone your accomplice—i.e., the person to whom you are supposed to be ‘communicating’ your card; if it’s the deuce of clubs, you tell them to ask for ‘Ted’ Smith. Carry this out with the right dramatic flourishes and the trick will stump nine scientists out of 10” (Holt).
Fate/Destiny/Determinism/Anything Preordained
Fate is the belief that no matter what you do, your future’s already decided, though the truth is that your future depends on what choices you make.
Communicating with Ghosts and Spirits and Dead Relatives or Dead Celebrities, and Hearing the Dead Speak Back
"So I don't guffaw at the woman who visits her husband's grave and chats him up every now and then, maybe on the anniversary of his death. It's not hard to understand. And if I have difficulties with the ontological status of who she's talking to, that's all right. That's not what this is about. This is about humans being human. More than a third of American adults believe that on some level they've made contact with the dead"(Sagan, Haunted, p. 203).
The percentage of people who reported having felt the touch of someone who has died has jumped from 18 percent to 29 percent between 1996 and 2009.
Hidden Forces
Scientology/Kabala
That Numerological Connections have Any Meaning or that the Number 13 is Bad
That the number 13 signals danger or bad luck
That Vaccines Cause Autism
(The 1998 paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield published in the British Journal Lancet in 1998 was retracted by the journal’s publisher in February 2010. The correlation, that kids developed symptoms of autism after receiving a vaccination, was shown to be coincidence, and that the vaccinations were simply given when kids aged about 2 usually start showing signs of autism.)
"The answer is partly technological. We did not have the model of the interbrain until recently, and we did not have the functional neuroimaging methods to show that brains influence each other until recently, either. But another answer is implied in the wording of the sub-title of my book: "nonverbal communication, Asperger syndrome, and the interbrain". That answer is the explosion of interest in Asperger syndrome, and the recognition that impaired nonverbal communication is a common feature in all of the autistic spectrum disorders. I argue in my book that people with Asperger syndrome have a ‘low bandwidth interbrain connection'. Their brains, like all our minds, are much more stand alone than the rest of us ‘neurotypicals'. That is a cause of great difficulty, but can also be a source of strength, particularly in explaining why many people with Asperger syndrome are able to be so original and why many of them seem so intuitively knowledgeable about machines: unlike the rest of us, they don't think try to treat them as if they were people (although some people with Asperger syndrome may make the opposite mistake, and treat people like machines). The title of my book is "Can the world afford autistic spectrum disorder?" I do not mean can we pay for autistic spectrum disorder, even though it can cause a lot of disorder including expensive psychiatric problems, but can we make a place for people with Asperger syndrome"(Tantam)
All Anthropomorphic Descriptions of Things and Fictions, such as, The Universe is Benevolent, or God is Tolerant
Time Travel
Physicists at the Hong Kong University of Technology affirm that time travel is impossible. A single photon can’t move faster than light, meaning that entire humans can’t move through time.
Walking through a Brick Wall in a Fifth Dimension
Transporters/Teleportation
(degeneration of objects into their molecular components for transport to regenerate/reassemble intact in other locations)
Any Superhero Power, Including Superhuman Strength, Unaided X-ray Vision, Invisibility That Doesn’t Depend on Camouflage, Etc.
That Shared Genes in Common Make Humans Meaningfully Related to Other Animals or Plants
Reassembly of Matter to Form Original
Making applesauce return to an apple’s original composition
Developing the Personality of a Transplant Donor
The Evil Eye
The Sense of Being Stared At (Morphic Resonance) that Makes You Look Around for the Staring Person
This is typically referred to as paranoia or situational awareness.
Magical Ideation
(typified by the statement “people can make me aware of them just by thinking about me”)
Soul Mates
or the belief that certain people are “meant to be together”: two people are together because they choose to be
Global Warming as a Product Only of Man Living or as Not a Natural Climate Fluctuation
Roman and Greek Mythology
Truth in Propaganda/Truth in Advertising
Slogans pitched in product or politician commercials
Dietary Changes that Supposedly Strengthen Fingernails and Toenails
That Things Have the Power to Protect Against Evil Spirits
That Power Bracelets Give Physical Strength
That Objects Tell Stories
Objects don’t tell stories. People interpret their meaning and how others used them.
That Virtual Items/Goods/Services in Online Games that Players Exchange
All virtual objects to which dollar value or special powers are attributed—all value or power is nonexistent.
Celebrity Object Idolatry
Gaining an intimate and personal connection to one’s idols through handling the objects once handled by idols, and absorbing the idol’s invisible properties that made them unique
1. Anything can be sacred. To some, John Lennon's piano is sacred. Most married people consider their wedding rings sacred. Kids with no notion of sanctity will bust a lung wailing over their lost blanky. Personal investment in inanimate objects might delicately be called sentimentality, but what else is it if not magical thinking? There's some invisible meaning attached to these things: an essence. A wedding ring or a childhood blanket could be replaced by identical or near-identical ones, but those impostors just wouldn't be the same. What makes something sacred is not its material makeup but its unique history. And whatever causes us to value essence over appearance becomes apparent at an early age. In many cases the value of an object comes from who owned it or used it or touched it, an example of "magical contagion." In one study, 80 percent of college students said there was at least a 10 percent chance that donning one of Mr. Rogers' sweaters, even without knowing it was his, would endow wearers with some of his "essence"—improve their mood and make them friendlier" (Hutson).
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Repressed Memories
Addiction to Nonaddictive Substances
we all make choices to continue activities.
A Gene that Makes People Homosexual or Obese or Murderous
There is no causal connection between homosexual preference or obesity or murdering (bad-seed syndrome) and genetics. There is no irrefutable evidence that homosexuality, or homosexual cultural and personal identity, is caused by one’s genetic makeup, so there is no reason yet to believe that it is. All cited studies showing even correlation between homosexuality and genetic predisposition or the timed genetic acquisition of homosexual desires are seriously flawed and dependent on irresponsible interpretation as to causality of larger brain components (the anterior commissure, for example, in autopsies of study subjects who died of AIDS, a disease to which brain differences are attributed), excess hormone secretion, etc. witnessed in homosexuals compared to heterosexuals. Bad hypotheses and speculation, extrapolated deductions from rat studies, and observation don't amount to evidence.
Environmental, physical pleasure sensors, early exposure, availability of partners, and social factors completely determine sexual preference. Having no preference is also a choice by bisexuals.
One silly argument attempted to support that homosexuality is genetic is the "Who would choose such a hard life?" question. The hardness involves people not accepting homosexuality as a normal life choice, and going so far as prejudicially pairing homosexual behavior with heinous activities like pedophilia, bestiality and necrophilia.
- People who choose to follow through on any goal encounter difficulty along the path to success, but difficulty in life is unrelated to genetic predisposition.
- Difficulty is a subjective measure. Person A lives in a small town, goes to a strict church whose minister considers homosexuality a perversion, has parents who discourage sexual experimentation and friends who shun homosexuality, works in a stodgy accounting firm, and feels shame for his or her sexual desires will find other people’s reactions to admission of homosexuality difficult to withstand. Person B has parents who are bisexual nudist/spiritualists who encourage sexual exploration, lives in a sexually liberated city, and has a job in the entertainment or fashion design industry and has very tolerant friends and great self acceptance. Person B readily admits his or her homosexuality and is praised for it, cherishes his/her identity as a homosexuality.
- Ironically, the argument that who would choose a sexual orientation for which the social pressures make life difficult emphasizes behavioral modification as an argument countering genetic causality.
- Some cultures, most notably the black community, have a more pronounced social stricture against homosexuality, creating a subculture of silence about homosexual black males. Blacks choose to remain silent about diseases that are contracted largely through homosexual alliances, the black church discourages talk of homosexuality, and because of the stigma in the black community and personal embarrassment, few groups of black men organize marches to campaign for more AIDS research funding, for instance.
- The greater statistical frequency of homosexuality among uncles and male cousins in studies of gay men, that is, a family history of a higher number of gay men than expected, doesn't prove that homosexuality is hereditary. Proximity to other gays, acceptance of homosexuality as a family culture, and ready accomplices for homosexual experimentation among cousins is a more likely explanation for the numbers. Behavior traits are not moderately heritable, and people don't inherit predispositions to behavior.
Some blame parents on turning their children gay. According to psychoanalyst Dr. Judd Marmor, "Overprotective mothers and withdrawing fathers create neurotic kids, not homosexuals" (Small, p. 72).
Uptight gays want excuses not to feel bad for liking sex with other guys, and at the same time want people to accept the gay’s choice because gays biologically are said to have no choice.
Stimulation of evolutionally valuable nerve receptors that induce waste evacuation by making regularity pleasurable explains some homosexual activity. Everybody enjoys a good shit. It also feels good to tickle the prostate gland, milk it, cause weird involuntary ejaculation. Having a warm body with the right tool and throw skin-on-skin contact into the equation for an enjoyable roll in the hay. After awhile, acts that consistently cause pleasure become habitual, and habit comes to define us and our sexual desires.
Similarity to oneself in gender, appearance, sexual orientation, assumed personality, values and goals in life is a component in the attraction to persons of the same gender. Past experience with experimentation that was accepted by children of one's own age and gender, and availability of people of one's own gender who are receptive to our advances in the face of those of an opposite gender who shun us, explain other motivations to seek one's gender for pleasure and comfort and like-mindedness on topics of discussion and pursued activities. Being able to wear the same clothes is a bonus. The known skill that another person of one's own gender is presumed to have in sexual techniques to arouse and sexually satisfy one's partner is another appeal of homosexuality. Similarity of socialization, similarity of emotional nurturance, and similar passions generalized to one's own gender, such as the assumed opposition in females to female genital mutilation in some African tribal cultures, brings members of the same gender together emotionally and intellectually in a way in which women can't connect with men, for whom cutting of clitori is an abstraction.
Anyone who says he or she knew from age 1 or 2 that they were homosexual are lying, just as they are lying if they say they knew they should have been another gender or bisexual or transsexual or heterosexual, or sexually abstinent. Homosexuality is a choice. In school, kids choose to be homosexual because it makes them special if they have no other talents that would set them apart from the group for recognition, part of a very small group. Others choose to be jocks or druggies, or nerds for the same primary reason, while other factors may also come to bear on their choices to group in the way they do.
Saying that homosexuality is natural doesn't make homosexuality any less offensive to the people who think being hetero is natural. Since homosexuality is not genetic and serves no biological reproductive evolutionary purpose, people know that those who say that homosexuality genetic (and this gene cannot be passed on absent artificial insemination technology) are propagandizing for gay agenda.
Most people have no opinion on others' sexuality. It's only when homosexuals parade their sexuality that those who don't give a damn become upset with both the in-your-face gay advocates and the idea of homosexuality. Many don’t approve of the methods that some gay organizations use to force public acceptance of their lifestyle choices. People know that the desire to be gay was like any other; a personal choice that no one else should be made to respond to. Indulging in sex with someone of the same gender is an activity, lifestyle, and personality choice made between consenting adults, with what should be no repercussions to others, save for the outspokenness of those who demand gay rights beyond the rights already offered to the general population, regardless of sexual orientation. Choosing to be homosexual does not afford homosexuals a legally protected class status.
In many states, being homosexual (or more specifically, participating in sodomy, which is often practiced by heterosexuals, too) was illegal only to imply that gay guys are criminal, as it was in Texas up until 2003 when the Supreme Court, led in the decision by Justice Anthony Kennedy, struck down the ban on sodomy. Doing something illicit and dangerous appeals to thrill seekers and the bi-curious who want to expand their breadth of life experiences.
Homosexual behavior provides pleasure and completely avoids concerns about procreation. This might explain the statistics in a report by the American Public Health Association that homosexual men average 49 different sexual partners in a lifetime versus an estimated 7 partners for heterosexuals. Additionally, homosexual carriers of the AIDS virus, if they are moral, are locked into having sex only with other infected people of their gender, and AIDS-infected bisexual males are limited morally to overwhelmingly select other infected men for sex, since AIDS-infected males far outnumber AIDS-infected females in the United States. This explanation for the choice of same-sex partner is based on morality and practicality.
Some homosexuals feel that society should be more accepting of the choice to be homosexual, citing that according to Kinsey’s 1948, ten percent of men in the U.S. are homosexual. Twenty-five percent of Kinsey’s sample were prison inmates, constituting only 1 percent of the male population, and a population more likely to situationally participate in homosexual activity due to unavailability of preferred female sex partners.
Obesity is foremost the product of not pushing away from the table or not having the time or the desire to seek healthy food alternatives.
A calorie eaten at noon has the same value as a calorie eaten at midnight; nighttime calories are no more fattening than daytime calories. How each human body processes calories based on activity levels and consumption quantity and metabolic levels determine whether calories are burned off or turned into fat.
- Barring a tumor in the ventromedial nuclei of the brain, brain lesions that block fullness receptors, or chemical imbalance based on malfunctioning pituitary glands, or drug-induced abnormal functioning, obesity is the result of eating to fill emotional holes in one's life and disdain for exercise. It is the result of giving up on the possibility of being fit and healthy for their own sake and for the sake of life longevity, combined with habitual patterns, and the availability of cheap, empty-calorie, convenience foods and stretch pants.
- Anyone who explains his or her excessive weight by saying it's a condition, must then know it's a condition, and if they cared about their health and appearance, they would get the condition medically remedied, unless the condition is caused by introduction of drugs to combat an even more severe health threat than obesity.
Santa Claus/Saint Nick/Father Claus/Kris Kringle/Flying Reindeer/Toy-making Elves in the North Pole/Santa's Accelerated Delivery Schedule Chimney Entry/Every Legendary Act Performed by the Bearded Present Master
"We tell children about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy for reasons we think emotionally sound, but then disabuse them of these myths before they're grown. Why retract? Because their well-being as adults depends on them knowing the world as it really is. We worry, and for good reason, about adults who still believe in Santa Claus" (Sagan, Haunted, p. 207).
The Singularity of the Bermuda Triangle Plane-Eating Effect
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Sense in Giving to Each Person According to His Needs
Penis Enlargement Via Suction or Pulling or Pills or Ointments as Opposed to Surgery
That Sugar Makes Kids Hyperactive or Adults Diabetic or that Peanut Allergies are Deadly Enough to Warrant Bans
That Things in Australia Happen in Reverse
That Mothers/Fathers Know Best for Their Children
That Kids Don’t Lie
That "Based on True Events" Means that Either the Story is True or That the Reported Events Are True
Value in Keeping Truth from Children
telling kids that thunder is God coughing and rain is God crying has any benefit to a child’s understanding of natural processes
That Animals have Rights
Animals have only the rights that humans provide, and only to the degree that humans not cause animals harm; animals have no other rights.
That the Pay Forward Philosophy Works
The idea behind the pay-it-forward concept is that good acts received and that improve one’s own personal situation are more likely to be empathetically performed in a similar manner to improve the lives of others. Pay-it-forward egotistically presumes everyone else is just like you and wants the same things you do and thinks the same as you. Socialist idealism that assumes everybody thinks the same way, will react the same way, and cares the same way and have the same resources and time to pay forward. There’s no guarantee that the money you give to the needy will ever come back to you, or won't stop being paid forward before someone in the position to aid you experiences good will from someone, when you’re in need and your retirement savings have been given away. Giving away your money is not a sound plan for your financial future and the tragedies you may face that can only be alleviated through your finances.
That There are Self-evident Truths
The Butterfly Effect
That Being Connected by Virtue of One’s Species is Good or Bad
That we are connected since the same rain falls on everyone and people drown the same.
That People Don't Make Big Choices in Love and Dinner
That you don’t choose who you love, or who you want to have sex with, or the amount of food you consume, as if life is nothing more than a predestined addiction and our acts no more than biological necessity
That Money can’t Buy Happiness
when in fact, it can, as all poor people given money for nothing will attest.
That Losses Due to American Slavery Can Ever be Paid Back to Slavery’s Ancestors
Multiple/Split Personalities
personality disorder: a bogus conversion disorder that people use as a stress-coping mechanism and distancing of personal responsibility
Chemically Induced Dreams of the Afterlife and Otherlife (Neuroscience Explains All Brain Hallucinations)
Near Death Experiences with Concurrent Visions of Heaven or Hell or Purgatory or the Afterlife
That No Psychosomatic Responses are Chosen
All mental disorders that aren’t the result of chemical imbalance or structural adhesions are fakes.
That the Value of Stretching before Exercising or After is Imperative
is questionable.
Feng Shui
Astral Projection
is bogus
Cryogenics
is bupkus
That Personal Control is an Illusion
“You can’t control the things that happen to you, but you can control your reactions to those things.” You can control most of the things that happen to you.
That Atlantis is Real
That Extraterrestrial Aliens Visited Egypt and Built the Pyramids
Crop Circles as Alien Spaceship Landings
Intelligent life on Other Planets and Any Theory Related to Interplanetary/Intergalactic Aliens, Such as Alien Abduction
Making Contact with Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life Forms
not yet we haven't
That Morality is Either Culturally Relative or Absolute
A single, absolute standard of morality. Morality is a set of life rules taught to children by parents, teachers, family, and the subset of society with which the child is a member. Morality is subjective and relative. Different cultures value different rules and human rights. For instance, in militant warring African tribes, kidnapped children are taught that it is moral to rape women, kill their own parents, and that the higher standard of morality is the preservation of their own lives, which will be taken from them if they don’t obey the tribal leaders’ demand that they kill. Christians believe that the Bible’s teachings provide the rules of morality. The best set of rules is offered by the Objectivist/Libertarian philosophy, that states that good morals are those in which people do not violently interfere with the pursuits of others, physically or coercively obstruct others in their pursuits, and that the pursuits of others likewise harm no one else’s right to life, liberty, and their pursuit of happiness and enjoyment of their own property. Morality is respect for others and their rights; rationality is respect for reality; survival is understanding how we can fit into reality and benefit from the correctness of our fit—morality is subjective, rationality is objectiveGeneral Lapses in Knowledge Leading to False Beliefs
That leaving dead varmints in places where varmints frequent will deter their visitation to those places.
Jackalopes; rabbits with antlers, like antelopes. Unlike the fictive cabbit (cat-rabbit cross) and jackalope (jackrabbit-antelope mixture), ligers are real felines that can
Firewalking is a safe practice whose goal is to show either that the walker has been chosen by God not to be injured, or to show the power of the mind over pain. Many spiritual healers use the technique to push home any number of positive mind-frame benefits.
That gay marriage, excessive gun ownership, or any immoral behavior causes natural disasters,
That the bodies of some long-dead saints don’t decay, or that the hair and nails of the dead continue to grow.
That any group of people, such as Jews, control the world and everything bad in it.
That there is something disrespectful about mocking people's ridiculous beliefs, or that it's not okay to be disrespectful to people who have ridiculous beliefs. A frequent show of disrespect may be what's needed for people to evaluate their wrong beliefs and seek correction.
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