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April 30, 2011 at 11:38 PM #691991May 1, 2011 at 12:42 AM #690823
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Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=flu]
2. Obese people. why not include social studies to include the contributions that obese people have made to our society. Obese people in school get picked on all the time. Even liberal folks like some people here (not naming names), who champion diversity, always rails against “fat people”….When does this hypersensitivity “training” ever going to end???[/quote]
BTW, I’m all for a mandatory weight management class and teaching kids where food comes from and how to cook it. It might be a good thing to start vegetable gardens on school grounds also.
Obesity is manageable. The problem is that kids think that eating pizza and drinking coke in front of the TV is normal. Not.
Oscar Wilde was gay and fat. He was also persecuted for being gay. Add him to the reading assignments.[/quote]
Saying that obesity is “manageable” is like saying that being gay is “manageable.” IMHO, neither one is a choice, and even though you claim that weight gain is under the control of the obese, it is not.
Some people take in calories and their bodies expend them without any intentional actions taken by the person, while others take in calories and store them, again, without any intentional actions taken by the person. What we need to understand is why some people’s bodies immediately turn calories into kinetic energy — for example, the hyperactive kid who can not sit down to save his/her life — and they are NOT *choosing* to behave like this any more than the “lazy” kid is *choosing* to be lazy — while some bodies seem to store the energy (the “lazy,” overweight kid).
May 1, 2011 at 12:42 AM #690895Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=flu]
2. Obese people. why not include social studies to include the contributions that obese people have made to our society. Obese people in school get picked on all the time. Even liberal folks like some people here (not naming names), who champion diversity, always rails against “fat people”….When does this hypersensitivity “training” ever going to end???[/quote]
BTW, I’m all for a mandatory weight management class and teaching kids where food comes from and how to cook it. It might be a good thing to start vegetable gardens on school grounds also.
Obesity is manageable. The problem is that kids think that eating pizza and drinking coke in front of the TV is normal. Not.
Oscar Wilde was gay and fat. He was also persecuted for being gay. Add him to the reading assignments.[/quote]
Saying that obesity is “manageable” is like saying that being gay is “manageable.” IMHO, neither one is a choice, and even though you claim that weight gain is under the control of the obese, it is not.
Some people take in calories and their bodies expend them without any intentional actions taken by the person, while others take in calories and store them, again, without any intentional actions taken by the person. What we need to understand is why some people’s bodies immediately turn calories into kinetic energy — for example, the hyperactive kid who can not sit down to save his/her life — and they are NOT *choosing* to behave like this any more than the “lazy” kid is *choosing* to be lazy — while some bodies seem to store the energy (the “lazy,” overweight kid).
May 1, 2011 at 12:42 AM #691503Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=flu]
2. Obese people. why not include social studies to include the contributions that obese people have made to our society. Obese people in school get picked on all the time. Even liberal folks like some people here (not naming names), who champion diversity, always rails against “fat people”….When does this hypersensitivity “training” ever going to end???[/quote]
BTW, I’m all for a mandatory weight management class and teaching kids where food comes from and how to cook it. It might be a good thing to start vegetable gardens on school grounds also.
Obesity is manageable. The problem is that kids think that eating pizza and drinking coke in front of the TV is normal. Not.
Oscar Wilde was gay and fat. He was also persecuted for being gay. Add him to the reading assignments.[/quote]
Saying that obesity is “manageable” is like saying that being gay is “manageable.” IMHO, neither one is a choice, and even though you claim that weight gain is under the control of the obese, it is not.
Some people take in calories and their bodies expend them without any intentional actions taken by the person, while others take in calories and store them, again, without any intentional actions taken by the person. What we need to understand is why some people’s bodies immediately turn calories into kinetic energy — for example, the hyperactive kid who can not sit down to save his/her life — and they are NOT *choosing* to behave like this any more than the “lazy” kid is *choosing* to be lazy — while some bodies seem to store the energy (the “lazy,” overweight kid).
May 1, 2011 at 12:42 AM #691647Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=flu]
2. Obese people. why not include social studies to include the contributions that obese people have made to our society. Obese people in school get picked on all the time. Even liberal folks like some people here (not naming names), who champion diversity, always rails against “fat people”….When does this hypersensitivity “training” ever going to end???[/quote]
BTW, I’m all for a mandatory weight management class and teaching kids where food comes from and how to cook it. It might be a good thing to start vegetable gardens on school grounds also.
Obesity is manageable. The problem is that kids think that eating pizza and drinking coke in front of the TV is normal. Not.
Oscar Wilde was gay and fat. He was also persecuted for being gay. Add him to the reading assignments.[/quote]
Saying that obesity is “manageable” is like saying that being gay is “manageable.” IMHO, neither one is a choice, and even though you claim that weight gain is under the control of the obese, it is not.
Some people take in calories and their bodies expend them without any intentional actions taken by the person, while others take in calories and store them, again, without any intentional actions taken by the person. What we need to understand is why some people’s bodies immediately turn calories into kinetic energy — for example, the hyperactive kid who can not sit down to save his/her life — and they are NOT *choosing* to behave like this any more than the “lazy” kid is *choosing* to be lazy — while some bodies seem to store the energy (the “lazy,” overweight kid).
May 1, 2011 at 12:42 AM #691996Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=flu]
2. Obese people. why not include social studies to include the contributions that obese people have made to our society. Obese people in school get picked on all the time. Even liberal folks like some people here (not naming names), who champion diversity, always rails against “fat people”….When does this hypersensitivity “training” ever going to end???[/quote]
BTW, I’m all for a mandatory weight management class and teaching kids where food comes from and how to cook it. It might be a good thing to start vegetable gardens on school grounds also.
Obesity is manageable. The problem is that kids think that eating pizza and drinking coke in front of the TV is normal. Not.
Oscar Wilde was gay and fat. He was also persecuted for being gay. Add him to the reading assignments.[/quote]
Saying that obesity is “manageable” is like saying that being gay is “manageable.” IMHO, neither one is a choice, and even though you claim that weight gain is under the control of the obese, it is not.
Some people take in calories and their bodies expend them without any intentional actions taken by the person, while others take in calories and store them, again, without any intentional actions taken by the person. What we need to understand is why some people’s bodies immediately turn calories into kinetic energy — for example, the hyperactive kid who can not sit down to save his/her life — and they are NOT *choosing* to behave like this any more than the “lazy” kid is *choosing* to be lazy — while some bodies seem to store the energy (the “lazy,” overweight kid).
May 1, 2011 at 1:28 AM #690833Participant[quote=Shadowfax]I am not responsible for the journalistic quality of the article. I went for the quick, approachable source, but I see you are going to need some serious convincing. Here is a more scholarly source:
http://allpsych.com/journal/homosexuality.html
It’s not proven at this point, but there is strong evidence that most of one’s sexual preference is genetic.[/quote]
I think this is key (and it happens to be my personal belief, as well):
“The results of this research became the widely popularized Kinsey Scale of Sexuality. This scale rates all individuals on a spectrum of sexuality, ranging from 100% heterosexual to 100% homosexual, and everything in between [7].”
IMHO, all human behavioral traits can be placed on a spectrum, with the outliers at the farthest ends being what society considers “abnormal” or “dysfunctional.” Personally, I think all these behaviors are “normal” but perhaps less common.
Based on this theory, some people are 100% straight, and can never be compelled to experiment with or even think about homosexual sex. Likewise, some gay people are 100% gay, and can never imagine or desire to be engaged in heterosexual relationships. IMO, the majority are somewhere in the middle, with society and their environment encouraging a heterosexual lifestyle. If this is the case, one could say that some people who are somewhere in the middle might be “converted” to a homosexual lifestyle. It’s not that they went from 100% straight to 100% gay, but that they went from 60% straight to 60% gay. I do think this is possible.
May 1, 2011 at 1:28 AM #690904Participant[quote=Shadowfax]I am not responsible for the journalistic quality of the article. I went for the quick, approachable source, but I see you are going to need some serious convincing. Here is a more scholarly source:
http://allpsych.com/journal/homosexuality.html
It’s not proven at this point, but there is strong evidence that most of one’s sexual preference is genetic.[/quote]
I think this is key (and it happens to be my personal belief, as well):
“The results of this research became the widely popularized Kinsey Scale of Sexuality. This scale rates all individuals on a spectrum of sexuality, ranging from 100% heterosexual to 100% homosexual, and everything in between [7].”
IMHO, all human behavioral traits can be placed on a spectrum, with the outliers at the farthest ends being what society considers “abnormal” or “dysfunctional.” Personally, I think all these behaviors are “normal” but perhaps less common.
Based on this theory, some people are 100% straight, and can never be compelled to experiment with or even think about homosexual sex. Likewise, some gay people are 100% gay, and can never imagine or desire to be engaged in heterosexual relationships. IMO, the majority are somewhere in the middle, with society and their environment encouraging a heterosexual lifestyle. If this is the case, one could say that some people who are somewhere in the middle might be “converted” to a homosexual lifestyle. It’s not that they went from 100% straight to 100% gay, but that they went from 60% straight to 60% gay. I do think this is possible.
May 1, 2011 at 1:28 AM #691513Participant[quote=Shadowfax]I am not responsible for the journalistic quality of the article. I went for the quick, approachable source, but I see you are going to need some serious convincing. Here is a more scholarly source:
http://allpsych.com/journal/homosexuality.html
It’s not proven at this point, but there is strong evidence that most of one’s sexual preference is genetic.[/quote]
I think this is key (and it happens to be my personal belief, as well):
“The results of this research became the widely popularized Kinsey Scale of Sexuality. This scale rates all individuals on a spectrum of sexuality, ranging from 100% heterosexual to 100% homosexual, and everything in between [7].”
IMHO, all human behavioral traits can be placed on a spectrum, with the outliers at the farthest ends being what society considers “abnormal” or “dysfunctional.” Personally, I think all these behaviors are “normal” but perhaps less common.
Based on this theory, some people are 100% straight, and can never be compelled to experiment with or even think about homosexual sex. Likewise, some gay people are 100% gay, and can never imagine or desire to be engaged in heterosexual relationships. IMO, the majority are somewhere in the middle, with society and their environment encouraging a heterosexual lifestyle. If this is the case, one could say that some people who are somewhere in the middle might be “converted” to a homosexual lifestyle. It’s not that they went from 100% straight to 100% gay, but that they went from 60% straight to 60% gay. I do think this is possible.
May 1, 2011 at 1:28 AM #691656Participant[quote=Shadowfax]I am not responsible for the journalistic quality of the article. I went for the quick, approachable source, but I see you are going to need some serious convincing. Here is a more scholarly source:
http://allpsych.com/journal/homosexuality.html
It’s not proven at this point, but there is strong evidence that most of one’s sexual preference is genetic.[/quote]
I think this is key (and it happens to be my personal belief, as well):
“The results of this research became the widely popularized Kinsey Scale of Sexuality. This scale rates all individuals on a spectrum of sexuality, ranging from 100% heterosexual to 100% homosexual, and everything in between [7].”
IMHO, all human behavioral traits can be placed on a spectrum, with the outliers at the farthest ends being what society considers “abnormal” or “dysfunctional.” Personally, I think all these behaviors are “normal” but perhaps less common.
Based on this theory, some people are 100% straight, and can never be compelled to experiment with or even think about homosexual sex. Likewise, some gay people are 100% gay, and can never imagine or desire to be engaged in heterosexual relationships. IMO, the majority are somewhere in the middle, with society and their environment encouraging a heterosexual lifestyle. If this is the case, one could say that some people who are somewhere in the middle might be “converted” to a homosexual lifestyle. It’s not that they went from 100% straight to 100% gay, but that they went from 60% straight to 60% gay. I do think this is possible.
May 1, 2011 at 1:28 AM #692005Participant[quote=Shadowfax]I am not responsible for the journalistic quality of the article. I went for the quick, approachable source, but I see you are going to need some serious convincing. Here is a more scholarly source:
http://allpsych.com/journal/homosexuality.html
It’s not proven at this point, but there is strong evidence that most of one’s sexual preference is genetic.[/quote]
I think this is key (and it happens to be my personal belief, as well):
“The results of this research became the widely popularized Kinsey Scale of Sexuality. This scale rates all individuals on a spectrum of sexuality, ranging from 100% heterosexual to 100% homosexual, and everything in between [7].”
IMHO, all human behavioral traits can be placed on a spectrum, with the outliers at the farthest ends being what society considers “abnormal” or “dysfunctional.” Personally, I think all these behaviors are “normal” but perhaps less common.
Based on this theory, some people are 100% straight, and can never be compelled to experiment with or even think about homosexual sex. Likewise, some gay people are 100% gay, and can never imagine or desire to be engaged in heterosexual relationships. IMO, the majority are somewhere in the middle, with society and their environment encouraging a heterosexual lifestyle. If this is the case, one could say that some people who are somewhere in the middle might be “converted” to a homosexual lifestyle. It’s not that they went from 100% straight to 100% gay, but that they went from 60% straight to 60% gay. I do think this is possible.
May 1, 2011 at 7:05 AM #690853scaredyclassic
Participantwhat percentage of the population do you think could be happy with pure onanism? I wonder if it’s higher than generally recognized. I bet it’s at least 10%, but people are pressured socially to interact with each other. we could have less social problems if people didn’t interact with other humans
also, plushies should be encouraged.
and we should be giving tax credits for sex robots.
May 1, 2011 at 7:05 AM #690924Participantwhat percentage of the population do you think could be happy with pure onanism? I wonder if it’s higher than generally recognized. I bet it’s at least 10%, but people are pressured socially to interact with each other. we could have less social problems if people didn’t interact with other humans
also, plushies should be encouraged.
and we should be giving tax credits for sex robots.
May 1, 2011 at 7:05 AM #691533Participantwhat percentage of the population do you think could be happy with pure onanism? I wonder if it’s higher than generally recognized. I bet it’s at least 10%, but people are pressured socially to interact with each other. we could have less social problems if people didn’t interact with other humans
also, plushies should be encouraged.
and we should be giving tax credits for sex robots.
May 1, 2011 at 7:05 AM #691676Participantwhat percentage of the population do you think could be happy with pure onanism? I wonder if it’s higher than generally recognized. I bet it’s at least 10%, but people are pressured socially to interact with each other. we could have less social problems if people didn’t interact with other humans
also, plushies should be encouraged.
and we should be giving tax credits for sex robots.
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