so my mother was telling me that a transexual, don't know if she's pre or post op (nobody does apparently), has started attending meetings and started a bible study.. she answers up in meetings and has been attending a few weeks.
apparently she looks very much like a woman but has a distinctive masculine voice.
i asked my mother what will happen?
Void eater- if you are born with and XX chromosome you get a vag, XY you get a pecker. XXY and you're a herme... It's science.
Not that simple, from what I've read. There are a variety of chromosomal abnormalities that make such a cut-and-dried view difficult.
so my mother was telling me that a transexual, don't know if she's pre or post op (nobody does apparently), has started attending meetings and started a bible study.. she answers up in meetings and has been attending a few weeks.
apparently she looks very much like a woman but has a distinctive masculine voice.
i asked my mother what will happen?
So if she has an XY
No reason to think that is the case, is there? And what if she happens to have female chromosomes, the surgery would then be OK? After all, having girl chromosomes with boy parts sounds like any other birth defect that surgery can fix!
i've read some old posts and they don't really fit my situation.. my wife just told me she wants a divorce and that's it after nearly 20 years., she doesn't want to try to work on it.. other posts talk about friends and family.
i have no family and no friends (due to a lot of traveling).. i went back to my hometown a year ago (after many years away) and even then old friends treated me as a stranger, like they've moved on.. i've had a lot of emotional / mental problems, basically a breakdown so have found it impossible to fulfill my role as a husband for many years, emotionally and physically and she said she's had enough, although she's never talked about it before.. she went out and had an unplanned one-night-stand.
i forgive me but she says she doesn't love me anymore.. we both find it very difficult to communicate our feelings.
I don't know if this is "help", but:
For a marriage to work, each partner has to contribute something to the other.
I have a sign at my desk that reads, "How do I make it easy to do business with me?"
At home, I often ask myself, "What do I bring to the table of this marriage?"
Most partners feel an ever increasing strain if they feel they are doing all the heavy lifting in the relationship.
i originally came here to find proof that the witnesses don't have the truth.
i was so afraid of being destroyed at armagedon.. i didn't really find the convincing proof i was looking for.. what i did find, however, is the love and total acceptance that i hadn't felt before.
to me, that's more important..
It's interesting where our "baseline belief" goes, our default "truth."
If someone came up and said, "I've seen a brilliant gold dragon", we'd ask for proof.
If someone comes up and says, "God is going to destroy the world," people often say, "When?"
things are what they are.. everything acts according to its nature.. nothing escapes its own nature.. we cannot be other than what we are and our "choices" follow our nature.. consequently, can we not say correctly that free choice is merely our ignorance of the fact that all our actions and choices are predetermined by our nature?.
1. if you are offered either a handful of dog poop or a cold dove bar---is your "choice" really much of a choice?
2. offer a heterosexual male a night with a hot chick or a hot dude...is the outcome really "choice"?
Still begging the question of measurement. When you can determine which "choices" are choices, and which determinism, you have a practical discussion.
things are what they are.. everything acts according to its nature.. nothing escapes its own nature.. we cannot be other than what we are and our "choices" follow our nature.. consequently, can we not say correctly that free choice is merely our ignorance of the fact that all our actions and choices are predetermined by our nature?.
1. if you are offered either a handful of dog poop or a cold dove bar---is your "choice" really much of a choice?
2. offer a heterosexual male a night with a hot chick or a hot dude...is the outcome really "choice"?
absolve everybody of any sin or crime, right?
We tend to mitigate consequences due to intention and motivation in Western society. But we don't ignore behavior whether it is choiceful or not. We don't punish the intent per se (except in terms of level of response), we punish behavior.
things are what they are.. everything acts according to its nature.. nothing escapes its own nature.. we cannot be other than what we are and our "choices" follow our nature.. consequently, can we not say correctly that free choice is merely our ignorance of the fact that all our actions and choices are predetermined by our nature?.
1. if you are offered either a handful of dog poop or a cold dove bar---is your "choice" really much of a choice?
2. offer a heterosexual male a night with a hot chick or a hot dude...is the outcome really "choice"?
How would you determine a particular choice was determined or the result of free will? Without metrics, there is no conclusion possible and the argument is moot.
Philosophically, when you increase that commodity we might call "consciousness", you increase your choices. You expand the ghost in the machine beyond the mechanistic determinations of patterned thought.
When you become aware of having choice, you may indeed have choice. Choosing something "bad" may be the indication of free will at work - or a predisposition toward masochism. But it can be said that there is always choice - along with positive and negative outcomes, varying ways of evaluating options. If I want to feed my roses, the dog excrement is the better choice over the Dove bar.
We constantly balance competing desires and potential outcomes to make choices. At this point, the complexities of the neural network and physical feedback we employ grant at least approximate choice, functional choice, and therefore pragmatic choice.
please don't say, "yes, for obvious reasons".. it's not obvious to me..
No. I don't attach significance to monogamy.
But my spouse does, and I have agreed to abide by their wishes.
It's up to people what they vow to each other. It's a measure of integrity to follow those vows.
Early in our relationship our agreement was that monogamy wasn't important. That changed over time, and now it is.
The key to rational relationships is what you agree to, rather than relying on assumptions or stereotypes. The key to lasting relationships is the ability to renegotiate.
If they were to have an experience that added to their life, I am pleased for them.
everyone easily can talk about other people---the good and bad....but sometimes we don't focus on ourselves, especially the positives.. we all have strengths.
what positives do you have, perhaps things you can be proud about?.
Ordinary
(© 2007 Void Music)
I was never a flower child
No one ever said, “He’s so wild”
Saw some words in the sand, felt some warm loving hands
Heard the voice speaking meek and mild
Everyone is special, everyone is ordinary
It said to me
Everyone is special, everyone so ordinary
I was never a movie star
No one every said, “He’ll go far”
Saw some lights in the sky, felt some time passing by
Heard the voice trapped inside the jar
Everyone is special, everyone is ordinary
It said to me
Everyone is special, everyone so ordinary
I’ve been above board, I’ve been undercover
I’ve been a friend and I’ve been a lover
Everyone so special, everything so ordinary
Have you ever touched happiness
Have you ever lived into bliss
Was it strange or bizarre, did it seem near or far
Was it something that felt like this
Everyone is special, everyone is ordinary
It seems to me
Everyone is special, everyone so ordinary
I’ve been above board and it’s no wonder
I should’ve been a friend, instead I was a lover
Everything was special and everything was ordinary
I’ve been above board, I’ve been undercover
I’ve been a friend and I’ve been a lover
Everything was special, everything so ordinary
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Actually I have been in a couple movies...but I wasn't a star...
energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed.. consequently, the building blocks of existence are actually finite parts.. to create things in "tomorrow" which are new, something has to be dismantled to leave spare parts for tomorrow's new thing.. the old thing deteriorates, (dies/disintegrates) and the parts become available to make the new thing.. time travel requires going to a place where today's parts are available to be rearranged.. some of today's things persist as they are, of course.
they only travel through time by persisting as they are.
(mountains, for example.).
There is no difference between matter and energy per se - they are different states of the same "substance". E equals (is the same thing as) MC 2 . That's more than a convenient way to blow things up.
There are many more dominoes than just the one box. The amount of "substance" is pragmatically approximately infinite and either moving about spatially or dimensionally once you get beyond the myopic perspective of man.
Time should not be viewed as very much more special a dimension than what we think of as the mundane three. As far as travel goes...well, you can't walk there, and you can't move up in the air - until you get an airplane, then you see with the assistance of technology you can indeed move in a direction hitherto improbable. Movement in the up direction is really limited by indirect forces (e.g., gravity in this case) and we are likely similarly bound in the time direction not by something directly related to time but by indirect forces that tend to keep us moving at a subjective steady state.
We already know that the passage of time is relative, bound to relative speed. So there's nothing constant about our movement through time, only our subjective experience of that movement.
I suspect time travel, should it come, will not be about moving dominoes - it will be about morphing dominoes already at the destination.
