I suppoose Yadda that you are a world renown expert on the topic? Even if it is learned, and the real science suggests that it isn't, WTF difference does it make. What consenting adults do is of no concern to me so long as they aren't harming anyone.
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19If God knows how we are wired, Why punish people for being gay?
by suavojr ini just finished reading this story on yahoo, two comments stick out and cannot comprehend why can't we just show true love and stop beign hurtful to our flesh and blood.
so yes, if god made us and knows how we are wired how can god kill a person for beign gay when they did not choose to be gay?
why the more religious a person is, the more fanatical?.
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If God knows how we are wired, Why punish people for being gay?
by suavojr ini just finished reading this story on yahoo, two comments stick out and cannot comprehend why can't we just show true love and stop beign hurtful to our flesh and blood.
so yes, if god made us and knows how we are wired how can god kill a person for beign gay when they did not choose to be gay?
why the more religious a person is, the more fanatical?.
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Research Study: Low IQ Correlates With Prejudice and Bigotry
Filed By Michael Hamar | January 28, 2012 6:00 PM | 24 comments
Filed in: Fundie Watch, Living
Tags: anti-gay bigotry , evangelical Christian , homophobic behavior , ignorance,Intellectualism, racism, stupidity, Tony PerkinsI've often wondered how Christianists and the Tea Party crowd can cling to beliefs that defy logic and scientific fact. Now, thanks to a study out of Canada, we may have the answer: They're simply stupid. I mean, literally dumb from a low intelligence perspective.
The new study, done by researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, finds that those with low intelligence gravitate towards conservatism and are prone to embrace prejudice of things they don't understand or that are different. I can already hear Tony Perkins, Fox News talking heads and the anti-gay professional Christian set howling and bellowing that Hodson's work is biased or slanted.
When you think of about, however, the correlation tracks with a great deal of everyday experience in dealing with people. If you can't think for yourself, you're an easy target for demagogues who like to blame problems and failings on "the other."
Here are some highlights from Yahoo News on the study findings:
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice. ...
The findings combine three hot-button topics. "They've pulled off the trifecta of controversial topics," said Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study. "When one selects intelligence, political ideology and racism and looks at any of the relationships between those three variables, it's bound to upset somebody."
Polling data and social and political science research do show that prejudice is more common in those who hold right-wing ideals that those of other political persuasions ...
Earlier studies have found links between low levels of education and higher levels of prejudice, Hodson said, so studying intelligence seemed a logical next step ... As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brains and bias. People with lower cognitive abilities also had less contact with people of other races.
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If God knows how we are wired, Why punish people for being gay?
by suavojr ini just finished reading this story on yahoo, two comments stick out and cannot comprehend why can't we just show true love and stop beign hurtful to our flesh and blood.
so yes, if god made us and knows how we are wired how can god kill a person for beign gay when they did not choose to be gay?
why the more religious a person is, the more fanatical?.
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Rip, for your eyes only
Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze needs to hold players accountable for insensitive behaviior
Pat Forde 8 hours ago Yahoo Sports
OK, Hugh Freeze. Time to lead.
Lead your football players at Mississippi out of ignorance and into understanding. Lead your young men toward accountability. Show that the remarkably, distressingly resilient track record for intolerance at Ole Miss can be changed for the better.
Because if ever a situation cries out for a coach to set the tone of team behavior, and to firmly establish what is acceptable and unacceptable, it's the situation at Ole Miss today. This is no time for soft-peddling it. There is a reputation at stake for a team, a university and a state.
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Mississippi is 3-1 under Hugh Freeze this season. (AP)
And a coach.
If you're unaware, here is the situation as described in the Daily Mississippian, the student paper at Ole Miss:
"Many members of an audience of mostly Ole Miss students, including an estimated 20 Ole Miss football players, openly disrespected and disrupted the Ole Miss theater department's production of 'The Laramie Project' Tuesday night at the Meek Auditorium.
"Cast members of the play, which is about an openly gay male who was murdered in Laramie County in Wyoming, said members of the audience became so disruptive at times that they struggled completing the play.
"According to the play's director and theater faculty member Rory Ledbetter, some audience members used derogatory slurs like 'fag' and heckled both cast members and the characters they were portraying for their body types and sexual orientations. Ledbetter said the audience's reactions included 'borderline hate speech.' "
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If God knows how we are wired, Why punish people for being gay?
by suavojr ini just finished reading this story on yahoo, two comments stick out and cannot comprehend why can't we just show true love and stop beign hurtful to our flesh and blood.
so yes, if god made us and knows how we are wired how can god kill a person for beign gay when they did not choose to be gay?
why the more religious a person is, the more fanatical?.
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DJS
Rip,
Go away. But not before you read Maclemore's lyrics (or at least part of them),
"Same Love"
When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay,
'Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.
I told my mom, tears rushing down my face
She's like "Ben you've loved girls since before pre-k, trippin' "
Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
I remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league"
A preconceived idea of what it all meant
For those that liked the same sex
Had the characteristics
The right wing conservatives think it's a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made rewiring of a predisposition
Playing God, aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don't know
And God loves all his children, is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago
I don't know
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
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If there is a god..
by snare&racket innow we have to answer...... 1) is there more than one god?
how do you choose the most senior god?.
2) if you chose religious texts to make this desicion, how do you know they are not purposfully misleading by an ill willed god?.
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Cofty,
I alluded to Buddha a few weeks ago regarding Jesus' teachings; but the theists would have to actually read something other than the bible and that isn't likely to happen. The 8 fold pathway alone trumps almost everything else in the NT by its brevity, conciseness and intelligence. I want to thank you and Snare for taking many for the team.
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NEWBIES are leaving like crazy! Be very afraid WT
by clarity in# 3 newbie post.
first of all, the newbies have set a record here!.
have you ever seen a 4pg post where 21 new members reply!
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Warehouse,
Stay or leave the JWs; that is your decision and only yours. Howeve, you are wasting valuable brain space analyzing what can only be described as a mind controlling, nasty, abusive unloving cult. You will come to this conclusion sooner or later. I would suggest that you use your above average brain and analytical ability on better pursuits. Good luck
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IPCC Climate Change Report........
by cantleave in.....states that there is 95% certainty climate change is man made.
people are still saying we don't need to do anything about it.. if you were told there is a 95% risk of you dying if you don't change your diet, wouldn't you change your diet?.
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Metatron,
Yes to all you say, but that hasn't anything to do with the goals and objectives of moving away from a petroleum and oil/coal based economy. It isn't going to be perfect, and there likely won't be one perfect technology (unless they accomplish cold (or hot) fusion). There are sooo many things that we can do, from super efficient homes (google the findings from Germany) to wind/solar/tidal/etc. to super conductors (on the horizon perhaps) to getting rid of incandescent bulbs (please don't start atacking this). No one right now has the perfect answer; that doesn't mean we shouldn't be looking for alternatives.
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IPCC Climate Change Report........
by cantleave in.....states that there is 95% certainty climate change is man made.
people are still saying we don't need to do anything about it.. if you were told there is a 95% risk of you dying if you don't change your diet, wouldn't you change your diet?.
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DJS
I brieflly mentiioned several. Re-read it. Or google it.
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IPCC Climate Change Report........
by cantleave in.....states that there is 95% certainty climate change is man made.
people are still saying we don't need to do anything about it.. if you were told there is a 95% risk of you dying if you don't change your diet, wouldn't you change your diet?.
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Simon,
Ditto. I have avoided these discussions because of (what I believe to be irrationally) entrenched positions on the side of the denialists. I believe there was a legitimate debate for a while based on the imperfect modeling and that both sides were being less than honest about their 'facts.' But I believe that ship has sailed and it is difficult for me to believe that the consensus of an international group of scientists that humans are contriburing to climate change is a 95% likelihood is a conspiracy or bad science.
When I taught this subject, my primary focus (since the data was much less certain) was on the many other reasons to begin changing our focus on pertoleum and carbon based fuels. Such as pollution, the enviornemnt (i.e., BP oil spill, strip mining, polluted waters), the eonomy (oil price spikes can and have sent us into recession), international security (oil has caused many wars and must unrest - the sooner we can make this go away the better our planet will be) and national security (the U.S., for example, could forge a very different global strategy absent oil).
There are many compelling reasons to move away from an oil based economy that have nothing to do with climate change.
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IPCC Climate Change Report........
by cantleave in.....states that there is 95% certainty climate change is man made.
people are still saying we don't need to do anything about it.. if you were told there is a 95% risk of you dying if you don't change your diet, wouldn't you change your diet?.
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Cantleave,
I referred to this study in one of my posts yesterday. I concur.
