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I never said it was gross nor do I think that.
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I didn't mean to imply
you thought it was gross, I was just saying general arguments against homosexuality ultimately come down that, if everyone is honest with themselves. Gay people literally take up <5% of my daily thought process, and that's because I have family and friends who are, and find myself trying to empathize what it would be like being a gay men in this society, let alone decades ago. It's
one of the most time-wasting subject to discuss, but this is a free forum. Gay people exist, our society is embracing them, and there's nothing anyone (looking at you, DH and others keeping deep homosexual dislike inside) can do but accept the fact and chill out or, you know, start openly discriminating against gays. Start being brave enough to express these thoughts in a bar sometime, see how that works for you.
You need some gay friends. DH.
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The problem with the book like that is that even if homosexuality became the norm, human species could not go on without reproduction between a man and a woman, or some function of the sperm and egg.
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It's just a science fiction book, they're all full half-speculative/half crazy imagination mixed together with modern human themes.....IN THE FUTURE. There's a fair amount of increased suspension of belief in scifi simply because of the fact it's in the future, thus not really comparable to now (technologically speaking. Science fiction is a great motivator to help build a better future, because it inspires young minds to imagine future possibilities, then get to work on making them realities.
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Now I do recognize that we may find alterations to that possibility, and we must be careful citing the human genome as the end all be all since we only really solved it in the last 15 years. We could easily find something far more advanced than the human genome in that same time.
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No doubt, we do have much to learn about DNA. I'm starting to believe it's god-like mathematically pattern-based from 'random' synthesis from carbon and light (either an amazing fluke or inherent in the huniverse), or, perhaps, organic material itself, seeded throughout the vastness of space by interstellar programmers. But, the question always comes back to abiogenenes. Even if we were seeded (which I believe we were), how the fuck did whatever "seed" Earth evolve?
The future of DNA discovery may end up being much more mysterious than we ever suppposed.
One of the biggest "controversies" right now in the "fringe" scientists and questioners, realizing the bizarre nature of consciousness at a deeper level, than say, a classically trained scientist, is the correlation our only between experiences with EXPERIENCING your own DNA with your consciousness through brews like Ayahuasca, being used in South America for thousands of years.
Jeremy Narby wrote a book about called "The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge" --- a field which interests me greatly and I hope to eventually write about. Visions of intertwined snakes are common when using Ayahuascal and Jeremy believes this is a connection to follow.
Cool QnA between Narby and an interviewer:
The Cosmic Serpent, DNA and the Origins of Knowledge