Child-onset schizophrenics lose 10% of their brains ( this has been known since the 1920's, so doctors rejecting that it is brain-injury, & remaining adamant that it is "illness of mind" of the child, has been gaslighting the subjects/patients for an entire century, and I'd found a PubMed paper which admitted that it had been known since the 1920's, so it isn't just Google Scholar that said such is the case ).

A researcher named Thompson, iirc, did mapping of the brain-loss process, showing where the cortex loses 20%, where it loses 15%, etc, down to 5%, vs where no tissue-loss appeared.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.201243998

He said it took 5y for the wave of brain-loss to go through, & it looked like a slow-motion "forest fire".

It may simply be that people born-blind have more spare-brain to repurpose, so they don't get the mental-illness symptom from the brain-loss wave.

Whereas kids with all their brain being at-its-limit, and then being brain-decimated, they are psychically-butchered.

Notice that recently somebody published that living with cats doubles the child-onset schizophrenia-rate, so toxoplasmosis is implicated in the brain-injury/brain-loss, too.

Interesting angle..

Thank you for posting this, eh?

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The paper, itself, includes that link, in its refs, btw..

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Alkanes, from the possible breakdown of fatty-acids, in distant past..

To me, the question then becomes .. is there any nonbiological-method for Mars to have produced those molecules?

IF so, THEN .. probably that's how they got there..

but without knowing the answer to that question..

it isn't decided, is it?

I'd read, years ago, in the science news-headlines sites, that someone had cracked Colony Collapse Disorder:

They'd said that in ALL the hives which didn't have CCD, there was never the coincidence of both a specific virus and a specific fungus, infecting them.

They'd said that in all the hives which did have CCD, both that specific virus & that specific fungus were in-play.

Apparently, to them, the infection of both of those specific-pathogens, meant that their immune-systems were defeated, & everything else got them, then.

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Since I can't find that article, here's a different article which identifies some specific pathogen, which I hope includes both the specific-virus & specific-fungus that the other researchers had found to be the culprit:

https://beeprofessor.com/colony-collapse-disorder/

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Kinds-Smart-Identifying-Intelligences/dp/0452281377/

identified many years ago that our definition of "intelligence" is far-too-narrow, & anybody who's read it, can understand why I say the evidence is thiat the orginal definition of "intelligence" was intended to lock-out all kinds of intelligence that male academics were not good at..

( 1 example, right from that book, is .. it usually is possible to find 1 girl in a grade-school-class who can identify who's friends with whom, who's enemies with whom, and why, having all that stuff mapped-out in her head..

I'm autistic.

I can't even manage to be anybody's present-friend, more than a few minutes per year?

Been a few years since I had friends..

What any such girl is demonstrating absolutely is an intelligence!

Denigrated by male "authorities", of course, as is to be expected..

Gender-prejudice taints all our world, doesn't it?

Lipman's "That's what SHE said!" backs this..

https://www.amazon.com/Thats-What-She-Said-Together-ebook/dp/B0716GZT1P/ )

( obviously, these aren't "affiliate" links )

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Another item, though, music isn't an intelligence, it is a whole set of intelligences:

• Rhythm
• Harmony
• Melody
• Improv/Jazz
• Composition
• Polyrhythm..

& I rather suspect that ALL intelligences are fractal, like that..

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Nick Lane's Royal Institution Talk, on yt, also indicates that the "atom" of awareness may be mitochondria ( since jamming them jams our awareness, as the anaesthetic xenon, iirc, demonstrates )

https://nick-lane.net/media/how-the-krebs-cycle-powers-life-and-death/

Too bad they didn't have the scientific-integrity to test whether anti-Palestinian-prejudice ALSO predicted support for political-violence.

Perhaps a month ago, I saw in a single week, 2 articles:

1 was by an Israeli Jew, who surveyed Palestinians, & discovered that 45% ( -/+ 2 or 3 %, it was the similarity that struck me, not the individual-numbers ) of them wanted the extermination of Israeli Jews..

But, of course, he wouldn't dare to question what percentage of Israeli Jews wanted the extermination of Palestinians, would he?

The other was by a Palestinian, who surveyed Israeli Jews, & discovered that 45% ( -/+ 2 or 3 %, as mentioned above ) of them wanted the extermination of Palestinians..

But, of course, he wouldn't dare to question what percentage of Palestinians wanted the extermination of Israeli Jews, would he?

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Pretending that prejudice is "only 1 way" is a gaslighting common to prejudice-pushers/ideologues.

Scientific integrity breaks that, but political-motivation hasn't got the spine to.

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No matter: the unconscious strategy of Hamas was to use the Palestinians as bait, to get Israel to display such sadism/psychopathy that Israel's "deterrent" of its region from annihilating it .. would cease.

Once enough population is committed to annihilating one AT ANY COST, including "martyrdom", THEN one has no "deterrent" left, obviously.

Israel, incompetent at understanding anything outside its belief, .. took the bait.

Now it's only a matter of time, before that annihilation ( predicted in the Christian bible's Matt 24, btw, total-annihilation, in a single day, which wasn't possible until nowadays ) happens, due to Netanyahu's shamelessness & arrogance..

Before his striking within Qatar, I'd thought it would be 3-4y before that annihilation would happen, given how mind-warpingly-slow the unfolding of this setting-up-WW3 has been going..

But now that he's crossed that line, that shortens the timescale, perhaps considerably..

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Beware unconscious-mind's strategy: it's goal is to MAKE its myth-fantasies actualize ( which is where all the apoctalypticism comes from, & also where all the "zombies" movies & games are coming from, too )!

Every addict whose life was gradually & systematically destroyed by their unconscious-mind's addiction "proving who's boss" by breaking the life it inhabited, rather than tolerating the person living in that life to live, has proven just what unconscious-mind is capable of.

( I'm saying that as a guy who's racked-up 7+ years as a homeless person, who's seen what drugs do to lives, & who's dug into unconscious-mind's malevolence in a war to break my entire Eternity from its control/dominion: war's war, & it'll murder me, & anyone whose life it rules, rather than tolerate us removing our lives from unconsciousness's rule )

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See the difference between Trump's unconscious-mind, which HAS strategy, you can see the progression from when he was young to now, & it's consistently in the same direction, always-escalating, vs his SurfaceMind, which is chaotic, unmanaged, uncontrolled, & too random to reliably-predict.

See it with Putin, too..

& also understand that as they get older, they have less to lose, so therefore competitive-nihilism becomes more-valid, more "victory" to them..

Same as competitive-nihilism is "victory" who have been pushed far enough ( I'm including both kami-kaze pilots & submarine-torpedo pilots, some Islamist murdercide-bombers, mass-shooters, etc, in competitive-nihilism, aka Negative-Sum game )

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Have the integrity to do TRUE science, & don't let ANY ideology hold the position that it is "the ONLY valid victim", especially when it is genociding people wholesale, as we speak.

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6669/Euro-Med-Monitor:-Israel%E2%80%99s-brutality-in-Gaza-surpasses-all-recent-forms-of-terrorism

Until the study is done to discover what the predictor of motivation for genociding Palestinians is, it's propaganda, not true-Science.

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Gottman published, many years ago, that contempt is the primary not-survivable factor in a relationship.

So, this is "rediscovering the wheel", then..

Partway through the article..

He's making a couple of fundamental mistakes..

Social-process has phases exactly the same as fluid-dynamics, or other physics-processes, does.

the phase in-which casual rules about free-speech are good-enough, is finished, this fall, globally: the ever-escalating polarization enforced by the anti-considered-reasoning lobbies

( read Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" book, to really understand the difference between the imprint->reaction brain-system ( lower forebrain, from the stuff in "Top Brain / Bottom Brain" ), which Kahneman & Tversky called .. uninformatively .. "System 1", & the considered-reasoning brain-system ( upper forebrain, from that same book & the research which identified that programming uses the upper-forebrain significantly in ways that normal-speech/language definitely does not )

.. will finally have extinguished-from-our-world such capacity.

Both the Leninists & the Republicans eradicate considered-reasoning from education, in order to enforce imprint->reaction's rule, instead

( imprint->reaction, aka axiom-based-knowing, is a defining-feature of formal-systems, ideologies, prejudices, & "religions".

All reject evidence's validity-to-falsify them.

All hold that their-axioms are inherently more valid than contradictory universe-speech/evidence.

All are automatic/reactive.

Hofstadter's "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" demonstrated this, in the interactions between the hare & the tortoise. )

So, he's ignoring that in different social-process-phases, different-rules-for-free-speech are required.

shrug

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Here's a point that he rejects:

Can a person's opinion disqualify them from a category of authority?

I say absolutely yes it can:

Anybody who rejects the region's aviation-authority's right to regulate aviation, MUST be prohibited from piloting aircraft: they are too great a threat to others' lives.

Anybody who rejects a country's legitimacy, & holds that other-country has the right to subjugate it ( like a citizen in Ukraine holding that Russia has the right to demolish/butcher/obliterate Ukraine ) is functionally a pathogen in the "organism" of Ukraine, & ought not be permitted to exercise the authority to vote.

Responsibility-based-authority has to be the basis, in all domains.

Not authority-is-a-right, but responsible-authority is a privilege-or-right.

Expressing meaning has to be in the same regime: enforcing disinformation's displacing of truth isn't a free-speech-right, it is active-treason against considered-reasoning's ABILITY to govern our countries.

Therefore even the opinion that "tylenol is the cause of autism" has to be subject to fact-checking's overruling, because disinformation acts through social-pressure/forces, and can derail countries thereby, and that isn't anyone's right to be doing.

So, .. responsibility-based-rights is what I hold humankind has to stand on, but .. obviously that is a very-minority view.

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Whatever.. consequences'll happen, either way: some ways are whole-species-fatal, though.

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That author of chemistry books, something like Joe Schwarz, was torpedoing the "alkaline diet", where he pointed-out that nearly every chemistry in one's body is buffered, to keep the pH the same .. except urine.

He identified that acidic urine produces 1 set of kinds-of-stones, & alkaline urine produces a different set of kinds-of-stones, & that if one wants to reduce kidney-stones, it is best to produce pH-neutral urine, through the same kind of diet-manipulations that the alkaline-diet people use, or avoid, but with different intent.

I hope you get free from all abusive medical-conditions, as living is better without 'em.

IF doing the experiment produces helpful results, THEN good, eh?

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Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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TTBOMK, beekeepers feed bees sugar-syrup during the winter, to get them through, & to top-up their diet, so they produce more honey,

& feed them pollen in the spring ( activates swarming in them, so they have to be careful with that ).

Bees naturally get 1st-pollen from conifer trees, not flowers, from what I've seen, which would have a drastically different chemical-profile, so terpenes may be a meaningful antiviral for them, that they aren't getting in the syrup-supplement, making them more prone to colony-collapse-disorder ( I've read that ALL colony-collapse-disorder bees are infected with both a virus & a fungus, don't remember which, & that NONE of the still-healthy hives in that research had both those 2 items )

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A hagfish with prosthetic limbs & a condo?

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Each religion, including fundamentalist-atheism, tells its people something that at some level they want to hear.

The Abrahamic religions were suited to the people that those religions took-root in.

The savagely-scientific AwakeSoulism/Buddhism couldn't possibly have taken-root among those people.

Fundamentalist-atheism takes-root in people who want that, & then they won't even contemplate the question of why the electromagnetic-force ( mediator of all normal/terrestrial chemistry ) behaves differently in disintegrating-corpses, vs growing-organisms.. producing different results?

It's the SAME force!

WHY is it disintegrating 1 body, but growing the other?

Physicalism has proclaimed ( see "God: The Failed Hypothesis" by Victor Stenger, for 1 example of this ) that "anybody who invokes the immaterial.." ( notice that awareness isn't protons, neutrons, or electrons: it isn't matter, therefore awareness is categorically included in this declaration ) "..is invoking the supernatural!"

But flip that on its head:

Any "physics" which doesn't accurately describe how mind ALTERS the behavior of matter, including explaining how the intersection of knowing & will can somehow create airliners, culture, science, etc.., ( obviously NOT "random interactions of particles ) ISN'T complete!

( see Hofstadter's book "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", for how you have to choose EITHER self-consistent-knowing XOR complete-matching-Universe, & that is mathematically proven )

Here's part of why I value AwakeSoulism.. it ORDERED Empiricism, the ONLY true Science.

"Do not go by revelation;
Do not go by tradition;
Do not go by hearsay;
Do not go on the authority of sacred texts;
Do not go on the grounds of pure logic;
Do not go by a view that seems rational;
Do not go by reflecting on mere appearances;
Do not go along with a considered view because you agree with it;
Do not go along on the grounds that the person is competent;
Do not go along because "the recluse is our teacher."
Kalamas, when you yourselves know: These things are unwholesome, these things are blameworthy; these things are censured by the wise; and when undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill, abandon them...
Kalamas, when you know for yourselves: These are wholesome; these things are not blameworthy; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness, having undertaken them, abide in them."

Kalama Sutta - Angutarra Nikaya 3.65

Why do I call it the ONLY true Science?

There is a concept outside-centrism that is captured by a biblical-Greek term, eklegos.

The Christian who was explaining this concept ( Dr. Gene Scott ) was explaining that relying-on-other/higher-power was inherent in their religion, but has been lost in ours.

Interestingly, outside-centrism is what differentiates Empiricism from all formal-systems/ideologies/prejudices/"religions" nowadays:

All the self-sufficient ones, even if they identify as being based-on-universe, or being based-on-evidence, or being based-on-G-D, if they reject worldview-altering falsification, then they hold that their axioms outrank evidence/universe's-speech!

& THAT falsifies the whole category of them all, in my eyes.

IF you hold that your system-of-knowing CANNOT be falsified by contradictory-evidence, THEN you hold that your-belief is The Ultimate Answer(tm).

However, IF you hold that evidence contradicting your belief that holds up to testing actually obliges one to change-one's-worldview ( as Empiricism does ), THEN .. now one is doing exactly what Buddha Gautama instructed.

Eklegos.

Outside-centrism.

What really makes the difference funny, is that in Beaumeister's book "Willpower", he identified that the evidence clearly showed that relying-on-a-higher-power was required for a profound-addict to win against addiction, but .. he rejected that that was valid/true-requirement.

IOW, he demonstrated axiom-based "science", right there, rejecting Empricism.

Evidence forced me into the Dharmic-religions' cosmology ( I discovered that I'd remembered some of my continuum's/soul's memories from other-kinds-of-lives, which was incompatible with ALL Western frames-of-reference ), & it took YEARS to adjust my worldview to that evidence.

Universe recycles ALL energies contained within it, including meaning-energies!

Physicalism/materialism/scientism prohibits that.

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So, pick which scheme-of-knowing one prefers!

Axiom-based knowing, in which case contradictory-evidence doesn't threaten one's established-assumptions, or ego/identity,

XOR evidence-based knowing, in which case one can be forced that far, .. in my case from medical-research ( father ) & Christianity ( mother ) all the way over to AwakeSoulist Empiricism, .. by evidence itself..

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No, I'm not pretending that you, or anybody, has any reason to accept what I, or others, have found TESTS to be true: our experiment-results are vetoed by all Western-culture axioms/assumptions, right?

I AM saying that anyone who has the neurological-means/basis to do the profound experiments, and who does them properly, may earn the same category-of-results that others have already done.

( the book "Maharshi's Gospel" is the instructions, given in oral exchanges, between Ramana Maharshi, a Hindu, who'd broken-right-through to the AWARENESS-but-no-"self" profound-level of meditation, & eventually he simply .. didn't come back from it.

I'm recommending it because it isn't Buddhist: Truth can stand on its own!

You want another book that cuts right through oceans of ignorance, perhaps more-pertinent?

Huston Smith's "World Religions".

Brilliant, incisive, & mind-opening.

I only read the Hindu, Buddhist, & Primal religions, because the Abrahamic religions have sooo offended my Empiricism-religion that I .. kinda want nothing to do with engaging-them, anymore.

Objectively, I ought correct that, for scientific-integrity's sake.

Here's a link to the assumption-shattering profound work by him:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-world-s-religions-revised-and-updated

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Relentlessly keep exploring!

Awareness is the most magical substance!

What else is living for, other-than learning/exploring-meanings/exploring-understanding?

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EVERY time one's gut gets borked simply take a good probiotic with a mild meal ( that the good microbes will like ), and in about 2+h your gut is fixed.

Look for a probiotic with multiple Bifido strains & multiple Lactobacillus strains & Subtilis if you can find that too ( there is a PubMed item on how adding Subtilis to agricultural animals reduced their sickness/infection rate, and since we're mammals too, I'm presuming that we work similarly )

Also use a probiotic after any course of antibiotics, to fix-up one's gut.

I'm old, and find I need the things more frequently, now: even too-much salt in a meal can wreck my gut, but if I'm careful, then I don't need the help.

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That means that there is a positive-feedback-loop, between working-destitution-while-pregnant & inability-to-parent-because-of-working-destitution,

and those 2 combining to multiply the effect, in the produced Attachment Disorder...

Damn, damn, damn, why didn't that happen to be obvious...

Language forms one's mind, and, then, one's formed-mind is reflected in the language one uses.

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"Collaborative Intelligence" is a book on working-with 3 of the 4 kinds of innate-mind-language:

• AbstractShapeCognition, or implication-patterns
• VisualCognition
• AuditoryCognition
• KinestheticCognition

are the 4 kinds that I know-of.

The AbstractShapeCognition kind ( my kind ) apparently makes up a significant fraction of physicists.

The book only deals-with the other-3, however.

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Why does that have any significance, whatsoever?

Translating EVERYTHING from AbstractShapes into English .. gets exhausting & frustrating.

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Temple Grandin has a couple of TED Talks.

She thinks in movies.

then translates what the variant-movies showed her into words, to communicate.

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Language is confining.

Languate is enabling between people, and also between oneself & one's thoughts, but it is crippling.

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Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" is on how self-consistent-formal-systems are INHERENTLY mind-blind to all that the formation of the formal-system doesn't/won't see.

Leonard Shlain's "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess" book identifies that women's-rights simply doesn't get much of anywhere, in language/cultures which speak more-gendered language.

ie Anglo cultures have more women's-rights than Latin cultures, with their gendered-language.

That is consistent, & durable.

It gave me dispair for human potential, when I discovered that many language-families program people into genderizing everything, & locking "validity", in establishment's eyes, from "female".

That isn't going to change.

Which means that humankind is less-likely to endure The Great Filter, this century.

The "shackles binding our Potential" are too strong, and too strongly-valued, for humankind to break, enough?

It looks more & more like this is the case.

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See the fallacy of wrong-framing, and understand that all human languages are wrong-framing something.

Each language is better at some things, but worse at others, and incapable of some concept-expressing...

That alters our viability, planet-scale.

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In "The Design Of Everyday Things", it noted that we've a species-wide mental-defect:

When we do something, and it doesn't work, instead of agilely changing-what-we're-doing, we do what we already-were-doing, MORE FORCEFULLY.

That is why I ditched Emacs for Vim: Vim keeps hitting one on the head with one's not-changing-levels, thereby conditioning one's mind into the habit of changing-levels, counter to that innate species-wide ignorance/incompetence.

Morass-of-capability ( emacs ) was fun, but I NEED to be able to see what need be seen, need to be able to think what need be thunk, etc, and not-changing-levels is an already-known-incompetence?

And I'm autistic? ( making that much worse, with woodenheadedness/monotropism )

Vim forces the change in mental-habit.

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Some equivalent is going to be required, species-wide, to force-change our language, in order to make our viability more-likely, XOR our conditioned mental-habit is going to sink a greater percentage of our species' life, this century.

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Oh, & Temple Grandin's thinking in movies nuked the entire "without language, thinking cannot happen" school of philosophy, didn't it?

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Salt-resistant stainless-steel is the 316/316L steels & the 317/317L steels.

( the L versions are low-carbon, which means they can be welded & the low-carbon won't create carbon-rich defects in the welds )

Salt-resistant aluminum is 5052 aluminum ( low-copper. iirc )

normal cheap aluminum kitchenware is Commercially Pure aluminum, not alloy.

I've no idea what percentage of aluminum food-contact things are made with alloys, but it wouldn't be that much, I don't think?

Nobody bothers using those salt-safe alloys for making kitchen stuff, because there's no market-pressure to do-so.

( those stainless steels are costly, & 5052's used mostly for boats/marine/nautical stuff )

Therefore, using salt in the other alloy bowls/pots/pans does release metals ( including nickel or/and chromium ) into one's diet or/and ecology.

I won't add salt to normal "stainless" pots or pans because of that: it can get added after, even-though that's a harsher taste.

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ALL power-minorities, women, Indigenous, battered people, homeless people, autistics, the same is true.

Power-majority is self-centered, aka narcissistic.

That is the default.

"majority RULE" means minority over-ruled/bullied, inherently.

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Look at how a story in the Abrahamic religions scripture, on how women ate "the fruit of the knowledge of Good & Evil" which means they ate Morality .. got turned, by the power-majority into hating-on women for their "sin".

Women ( mothering ) ate of morality & shared it with men.

Period.

Researchers studying wasps in the Americas discovered that altruism is generalized-mothering, Buddhism perceived the same underlying-principle 25 consecutive centuries ago, the correct reading of that story in Genesis stated so, but the male-supremacism deformed the meaning until bullying women became religious-law for .. millenia..

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Many years ago, in the 1990's, there were the Internet FAQs.

The Feminism FAQ of that time identified that there was a category-difference between early White feminists & early Black feminists:

White feminists wanted to be included in the White privilege that males had. They wanted their half of White entitlement.

Black feminists, being bullied both for being women & for being Black, wanted something completely different: they wanted the abuse to be forced to unexist.

That is evidence ( my life corroborates it ) that our unconscious, when bullied in 1 dimension, wants to be included in the power-majority group, but when bullied in 2+ dimensions ( each individual may have a different threshold ), then the underlying problem with bullying-itself is understood by one's unconscious, and it becomes removing bullying's rule that one's unconscious understands to be the problem.

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It isn't leaving women, Indiginous people, homeless people, etc, fucked-over, while fixing it for 1 subgroup, that is going to make humankind viable, it is dismantling abuse-archy for all that can.

IF we earn it.

in time.

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THIS is what happens when you succeed in making an AI ( or Hoomin ) that can create MODERN KOANS.

You Bastard!!

: P

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I'd say combining Pimsleur with Tandem & Anki would be an extremely effective method.

Only Tandem's got Sanskrit, though..

( & I'm not a people-person, being autistic )

So, I'll try again, someday..

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it'd probably be the dryness, as plant-metabolism usually requires water, you know?

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