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  • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    I have that effect on people.

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    • So Evangelicals think the LGBT community is to blame for all the hurricanes.

      According to nutbar friends of mine, the wildfires and hurricanes are God speaking to us.
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      • Originally posted by ShirtlessBob View Post
        So Evangelicals think the LGBT community is to blame for all the hurricanes.

        According to nutbar friends of mine, the wildfires and hurricanes are God speaking to us.
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        • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

          Originally posted by state of hockey View Post
          You need new friends.
          never underestimate balance...
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          • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

            Originally posted by geezer View Post
            I don't personally have any facts available on this stuff, but from what I can recall of Peterson:
            The "less monogamy before" is a myth, and self-consciousness in humans developed in tandem with a large brain, big infant skull, long-term developmental dependency, and two active parents. All mutually dependent. The "cultures where plurality works well" were basically dismissed as being rare exceptions to the norm. As to men wanting to pass on their awesomeness, I think he said women actually control selection more than men do, and they select for competence as providers. Men would bang everyone in sight if they could, regardless of genetic heritage.
            Edit: I'm vaguely remember some stuff about, women don't go into heat only occasionally like other animals, so they can ensnare men with their availability throughout that long term of dependency blah blah... sorry, I listen to this stuff while trying to work so I miss a lot.
            But I recommend the whole lecture series. Start with the "advice to millennials" one which started the whole "clean yer dam room!" Meme.
            Edit: the pod episode is called "How to change the world properly", I found it inspiring and it actually had a positive effect on my personal social interactions... how rare is that for a single lecture!
            If it works well for them and their brains are structured the same way I would have a hard time dismissing it as nature and go more for the nurture. It wasn't until quite recently that it was the expected norm for monogamy. It was socially unacceptable for females to be plural but males were very frequently pluralistic and females were basically forced to accept it. THere is a lot of research showing monogamy was not as monogamous as we thought with a fairly large percent of people having other partners even while in committed relationships. Was a thing at some of the conferences I went to because assuming monogamy was not a good idea when screening for STDs or discussing birth control. Assumption of monogamy can be dangerous for the patient and their partners.

            Decided to research a bit (Google is your friend) to make sure I hadn't missed something. A sampling of what I found, all of which refutes the monogamy being a natural state thing. It might feel good to think so but it ain't so when you look at any of the research. Much more driven by culture and as a woman I can tell you it was not until fairly recently that women were allowed the luxury of complaining and expecting sympathy for a cheating spouse. It was always her fault that she wasn't enticing enough to keep his interest.
            https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...l-human-beings
            https://www.truthaboutdeception.com/...nfidelity.html
            http://www.refinery29.com/2016/08/12...open-sex-study
            https://www.bustle.com/articles/1210...rs-have-to-say
            http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...alCode=usmt20&

            Females do 'go into heat' and there are a bunch of fun studies to show what happens if you put the hormones collected from their sweat glands around a place. Men will congregate near the area smeared with the pheromones of women who are ovulating. I am too lazy to look this one up but PBS ran a series once that showed men shifting about a theater that was hilarious.

            I haven't listened to the guy (not time right now) but so far, from what you are saying, he has done a lot of thinking but none of it really scientifically based. Esp the women in heat thing. That is basic GYN knowledge.

            There is also a bunch of research that shows women are less sexually interested the longer they have a partner. Men can get aroused by just about anything. They see the partner and they want it. Women have stages in a relationship. In the beginning they are interested and are easily aroused by their partner by thought or visual stimuli (seeing them). As relationship continues they are less so. They must be 'courted', provided with a stimulus of some sort (physical aproach, hearing something that may engage them) to get them interested and then aroused). Went to a whole seminar on this around the time viagra came out. Biggest prob with guys is inability to perform. Biggest problem with women is decreased libido or interest. Ergo viagra doesn't work on women. The guy giving the lecture told us in a long term relationship foreplay was doing chores (take out the garbage!!! he boomed) for the woman so she could concentrate on the partner when being approached. That women were less likely to be thinking of sex the longer they were in a a relationship. This was independent of the quality of the relationship. His take home message was women frequently thought they were 'frigid' when they were following a normal pattern of decreasing interest. Men were unaware that women needed to be approached, noticed a decrease in initiation from their partner and thought they were 'frigid' rather than taking the correct approach of trying to engage. One of the most fascinating CEU things I ever went to and dam useful when counseling GYN pts.
            Last edited by leswp1; 09-09-2017, 10:18 AM.

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            • Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
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              • Originally posted by leswp1 View Post
                Assumption of monogamy can be dangerous A sampling of what I found, all of which refutes the monogamy being a natural state thing. It might feel good to think so but it ain't so when you look at any of the research. Much more driven by culture and as woman I can tell you it was not until fairly recently that women were allowed the luxury of complaining and expecting sympathy for a cheating spouse. It was always her fault that she wasn't enticing enough to keep his interest.
                https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...l-human-beings
                https://www.truthaboutdeception.com/...nfidelity.html
                http://www.refinery29.com/2016/08/12...open-sex-study
                https://www.bustle.com/articles/1210...rs-have-to-say
                http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...alCode=usmt20&

                Females do 'go into heat' and there are a bunch of fun studies to show what happens if you put the hormones collected from their sweat glands around a place. Men will congregate near the area smeared with the pheromones of women who are ovulating. I am too lazy to look this one up but PBS ran a series once that showed men shifting about a theater that was hilarious.

                I haven't listened to the guy (not time right now) but so far, from what you are saying, he has done a lot of thinking but none of it really scientifically based. Esp the women in heat thing. That is basic GYN knowledge.

                There is also a bunch of research that shows women are less sexually interested the longer they have a partner.
                Good stuff, sociologically.
                It's fairly obvious that people cheat all the time.
                The basic "GYN knowledge" of women having an ovulation cycle does not preclude the fact that they are able to make themselves available at other times, even during pregnancy. That's unusual, and has been cited as having an evolutionary purpose. It's not the same as an animal going into heat. Most mammals do not copulate at other times. Many don't even interact at all with the male outside those five minutes.
                A better word than monogamy for how humans work would be "serial monogamy" since with less than a couple years of devotion to develop offspring humans would be screwed.
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                • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                  Originally posted by leswp1 View Post
                  There is also a bunch of research that shows women are less sexually interested the longer they have a partner. Men can get aroused by just about anything. They see the partner and they want it. Women have stages in a relationship. In the beginning they are interested and are easily aroused by their partner by thought or visual stimuli (seeing them). As relationship continues they are less so. They must be 'courted', provided with a stimulus of some sort (physical aproach, hearing something that may engage them) to get them interested and then aroused). Went to a whole seminar on this around the time viagra came out. Biggest prob with guys is inability to perform. Biggest problem with women is decreased libido or interest. Ergo viagra doesn't work on women. The guy giving the lecture told us in a long term relationship foreplay was doing chores (take out the garbage!!! he boomed) for the woman so she could concentrate on the partner when being approached. That women were less likely to be thinking of sex the longer they were in a a relationship. This was independent of the quality of the relationship. His take home message was women frequently thought they were 'frigid' when they were following a normal pattern of decreasing interest. Men were unaware that women needed to be approached, noticed a decrease in initiation from their partner and thought they were 'frigid' rather than taking the correct approach of trying to engage. One of the most fascinating CEU things I ever went to and dam useful when counseling GYN pts.
                  I've worked pretty hard to maintain a marriage relationship for 40 years, and now you're telling me I have to take out the garbage more?

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                  • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                    Originally posted by geezer View Post
                    Good stuff, sociologically.
                    It's fairly obvious that people cheat all the time.
                    The basic "GYN knowledge" of women having an ovulation cycle does not preclude the fact that they are able to make themselves available at other times, even during pregnancy. That's unusual, and has been cited as having an evolutionary purpose. It's not the same as an animal going into heat. Most mammals do not copulate at other times. Many don't even interact at all with the male outside those five minutes.
                    A better word than monogamy for how humans work would be "serial monogamy" since with less than a couple years of devotion to develop offspring humans would be screwed.
                    Well, I guess but cats and dogs don't seem to have a problem trying to * anything, in heat or not. I can tell you for a fact that chimps and other primates copulate incessantly and indiscriminately. My parents were at a loss to explain what they were doing in the London zoo. Maybe primates are lumped in with us.

                    Screwed in our culture maybe but there are many cultures that hand babies among themselves to breast feed and care for if the mother is unavailable/busy. Our culture has compartmentalized the nuclear family, isolating its members. Many others are intradependent. (Can you tell culture and sociology stuff fascinates me?

                    Originally posted by burd View Post
                    I've worked pretty hard to maintain a marriage relationship for 40 years, and now you're telling me I have to take out the garbage more?
                    yes. yes I am. and if it works I will expect a nice bouquet of flowers sent to me (I used to tell the latter to my patients. I actually got a bouquet once. Laughed myself silly because the card just said something like here is your bouquet and my staff was totally lost)
                    Last edited by leswp1; 09-09-2017, 07:46 PM.

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                    • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                      ...My parents were at a loss to explain what they were doing in the London zoo...
                      What WERE your parents doing at the zoo?

                      If you want to expand the gene pool and add variety, monogamy works. If you want to shrink the variety and spread the "best" genes, go for polygamy.

                      But isn't that a form of eugenics??
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                      • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                        I don't think this has a pig's flying chance of happening in this country.

                        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...-come-dancing/
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                        • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                          Originally posted by joecct View Post
                          I don't think this has a pig's flying chance of happening in this country.

                          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...-come-dancing/
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                          • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                            An obit and post mortem of the Church of England

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                            • Religion and hurricanes:

                              Some Orthodox Jews ignored the evacuation order and are staying home because travel is forbidden on the Sabbath.

                              Some Christians went to a beach to pray the hurricane away.

                              And Kirk Cameron said that these things are "God showing us his power and might." (Link on Fox News)

                              I don't mock the first two, but doesn't Cameron have an incredibly crappy, straight to DVD movie he should be making right now?
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                              • Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

                                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                                What WERE your parents doing at the zoo?

                                If you want to expand the gene pool and add variety, monogamy works. If you want to shrink the variety and spread the "best" genes, go for polygamy.

                                But isn't that a form of eugenics??
                                Trying to get us not to look at the primates who were engaging in sexual congress with many partners, serially

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