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IQ Tests Are Sexist; Fail to Ascertain Creative Genius Capacity
Women are not necessarily more intuitive than men, nor are they necessarily more creative than men. Because male brains on the average mature slower than female brains, men as a group are compensated for this lag by ultimately developing greater "right brain" intuitive and creative capabilities than do women as a group; yet IQ tests have been redesigned to camouflage this fact!
The left brain and right brain are organized differently. The left brain processes information by sequences of small logical steps. The right brain visualizes concepts in a holistic or parallel fashion as in a dream, by focusing on an entire image or panorama. The act of genius requires a partnership of both left brain and right brain, although creative geniuses significantly outscore others on right brain (cube analysis) problems.
Interestingly, because standard adult IQ tests are now heavily rigged with more left brain (verbal) problems than right brain (imaginative) problems, they do not accurately reflect creative genius capability.
According to David Weschler, the reason the standard adult IQ tests are now rigged with more left brain than right brain problems is because the mean score for women as a group was significantly lower than the mean score for men as a group when the IQ test was comprised of an equal number of left brain and right brain problems. Cube analysis problems were thus dropped from standard IQ tests so that women and men would achieve an identical mean score on a standard IQ test, according to Thomas R. Blakeslee, author of The Right Brain. Theoretically, a male who scores 124 on a standard IQ test may in reality have an IQ of 140 or more.
The result is that more and more non-creative people are being granted Ph.D.s, and more and more truly creative geniuses like Bill Gates are dropping out of college because their brilliance is unrecognized and because teaching methods are designed to produce authoritarian pseudo-intellectual bureaucrats. Other truly creative geniuses are being denied admission to the prestigious colleges because neither their IQ test scores, nor their high school scholastic records reflect their true capabilities and because they are denied equal opportunity due to affirmative action programs that discriminate against non-Black males without an Hispanic surname. A nationwide study indicates that the mean average IQ of an individual awarded a PhD is 110.
Young Men, Sexual Assault & PTSD
Young men are more likely to be sexually asaulted by male authority figures in such places as the home, schools, jails, houses of worship, athletic institutions or in the armed forces. Priests, rabbis, ministers and Little League baseball coaches, although not uncommon perpetrators of sexual assault, are more likely than others to go unreported simply because they are more idolized by boys and by their communities as role models. Even fathers have been known to regularly engage in coercive oral and anal intercourse with their male teenage sons, according to child advocate/attorney Paul Mones, author of When a Child Kills. Hitchhikers and homeless men are also vunerable, as well as the naive or mentally slow. The average age of a victim is 17. Despite popular beliefs, most male perpetrators identify themselves as "regular guys" and often have consensual sexual relationships with women. Men who were sexually abused during their childhood and adolescence are more likely to suffer from dissociation, PTSD and reactive aggression than those who have never been abused.
Sexual abuse of boys and young men generally takes the form of both physical assault and verbal humiliation (figurative castration) of the victim by the male or female perpetrator. The perpetrator is generally displacing his or her own anger towards an individual who sexually humiliated him or her as a child. Religious fanatics are usually at the root of sexual humiliation, as well as violence, although alcoholic beverages and other psychoactive drugs/chemicals are often a contributing cause of violative behavior, as alcohol and other psychoactive drugs reduce social inhibitions..
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Herd mentality often rules. One of the dangers of group therapy is scapegoating ~ ganging up on a single client. Group therapists are often less intelligent, less well educated and more disturbed than are their clients and can push a sensitive client off the deep end, only exacerbating the client's psychological problems.
Alcohol, hallucinogens and prescribed psychoactive drugs reduce testosterone levels, according to Eugene Shippen, M.D. and William Fryer, authors of The Testosterone Syndrome. Reduced testosterone levels in both men and women reduce virility, increase fat, reduce one's ability for critical thinking and increase the risk for developing many forms of cancer, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and pulmonary disease. Be wary of media reports that suggest alcoholic beverages are a "health food." Zinc supplements can boost testosterone. Soy and broccoli can reduce unhealthy estrogen levels.
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ongoing cruel disparagement by signifacant others may be an underlying
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Regular Exercise and Vegetarian Diet: The Key To Healthy Living
A modified vegetarian diet that includes daily servings of garbanzo beans, tofu (a soybean derivative), fresh green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, avocados, carrots, celery, cruciferous vegetables (Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower), fresh citrus fruit (oranges, grapefruit), grapes, berries, olive oil (or canola oil), red or green peppers, onions and garlic is a proven way to sane and healthy living. Tofu is an excellent meat substitute when consumed along with fresh vegetables and fresh fruit. Consume small portions and chew your food thoroughly before swallowing.
The occasional addition of steamed cold water fin fish (tuna, sardines, salmon, trout) and poultry breast as a "meat dish" is often recommended by nutritionists, although optimum health can better be achieved by substituting tofu.
Get in the habit of drinking water, non-fat milk (for protein and calcium) and green tea (beneficial to the arteries) in lieu of other beverages. Fill your refrigerator water bottles with hot tap water (less impurities) in lieu of cold tap water. It is recommended to use wine vinegar (or apple cider vinegar) as a condiment. Avoid alcoholic beverages (including wine) altogether. Also substitute green tea for coffee.
NOTE: Both fresh garlic and celery are known to safely lower blood pressure to healthy levels. Obtain your soy from soybeans or tofu. For a snack, prepare hummus (a puree of garbanzo beans, olive oil, lemon juice and fresh minced garlic). Use as a dip for celery sticks. AVOID SOY MILK THAT IS SWEETENED WITH CORN SYRUP. Drink non-fat cow's milk.
If you follow a strict vegetarian diet, as suggested above, your blood pressure and cholesterol levels will, within a short period of time, fall into a normal range. Your risk for cancer and heart disease will be non-existent. Your anxiety levels will also be significantly reduced.
Tom's Tofu Steak & Omelet Recipe ~ House Foods America Tofu Recipes
The Soyfoods Council Recipes
Say NO to alcoholic beverages, tobacco and other psychoactive drugs
EXERCISE DAILY
ALL people have a CAPACITY for experiencing homoerotic feelings as a result of casual body contact. However, as a result of barbaric biblical rhetoric, people are conditioned to feel guilty and ashamed for merely experiencing such feelings ~ the conditioning generally results in extreme sociopathic or neurotic behavior.
Sex and Sanity:
A Sociocultural Perspective of Human Sexuality
by Tom Blaise Shepherd
There is no such animal as a homosexual! Nor is there any such animal as a heterosexual. Why? My own observations of nature, as well as the observations of renowned behavioral scientist Abraham Maslow, reveal that sexual orientation for humans is not dimorphic, which is to say that people are NOT biologically programmed for attraction to either the same sex or the opposite sex. In fact, the more dominant the male or the higher level of testosterone in the male, the more likely is the unsocialized male to seek to indiscriminately mount both other males and females for sexual gratification, depending on whichever is available and receptive.
A post-World War II comprehensive survey conducted by Alfred Kinsey revealed that approximately 40 percent of adult males admitted to having engaged in sexual relations with other males. A 1970s survey undertaken by the editors of Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine revealed that 51 percent of those males interviewed admitted to having occasionally engaged in sex with other males. Were the truth known, the percentage would probably be much higher, perhaps closer to 99 percent. Due to the criminalization of homosexuality, stemming from ancient Biblical teachings, it is understandable why most men are likely to deny ever having even experienced sexual attraction for other males.
Neither genes nor hormones determine the choice of an individual's sex object. It is the cultural influences that determine sexual behavior. Presumably, all men and women are fundamentally auto-erotic. However, their own pleasure is intensified by those males and females who respond to them positively rather than negatively.
Among the Sambian people of New Guinea, homosexuality among males is considered a rite of manhood. Boys are encouraged to form attachments to men and fellate them. In fact, the Sambian people believe ingesting semen to be necessary for attaining strength and virility. However, once a Sambian male reaches manhood, he is expected to periodically copulate with female Sambians for the purpose of procreation. Sex with tribal outsiders is taboo.
The Greeks considered everyone bisexual and worshiped the god Hermaphroditos who possessed both male and female genitalia. Male homosexuality, considered a manly form of behavior, was a social cornerstone of Spartan life. Boys generally slept with other young men and Spartan husbands spent very little time with their wifes, even on the wedding night, spending most of their time with their male warrior-companions. Marriage was encouraged, but only to provide warriors for the state.
Because of social mores, reinforced by religious dogma, beginning with Genesis 19:1-38 of The Torah or The Old Testament, homosexuality is purposefully suppressed, largely out of fear of reprisal. The fear is reinforced throughout the Old Testament and New Testament: Leviticus 20:13; Romans 1:27 and Corinthians 6:8-11, in which engaging in homosexuality is discouraged by Jewish law and Christian doctrine. Thus, children and adolescents are educated and socialized to conform and deny they even experience sexual attraction for others of the same sex out of fear of ridicule and rejection by society.
The clinically correct and academically correct practice of identifying individuals by a so-called "sexual orientation" is pathological and stigmatizing, aside from the fact that the term is ambiguous and has different meanings to different people..
Labeling or humiliating and thus stigmatizing a male child, an adolescent or even an adult as a "homosexual" generally results in social rejection by members of both sexes, thereby driving the stigmatized individual into compensatory behavior, including sexual assaults on representtive members of the opposite sex [rape], or into adopting a gay lifestyle, a lifestyle adopted more by default than by choice.
Testosterone is the hormone that activates the sex drive in both males and females, although testosterone does not determine the CHOICE of a sex object. The average male has approximatley eight times the level of testosterone as a female.
The idea that the size of the hypothalamus region of the brain determines one's sexual orientation is a viewpoint that gained popularity following the research of Simon Levay at the Salk Institute in 1990, whose male domestic partner reportedly died of AIDS. However, the conclusions that resulted from Levay's research, an alleged sampling of the brains of 39 males, were afterwards used by some politically-minded individuals to suggest that the size of the hypothalamus actually determines one's choice of a sexual partner, although Levay himself did not offer that conclusion.
Others, of the same school of thought, have likewise claimed that a so-called heterosexual man's ring finger is longer than his index finger, whereas a so-called homosexual man's ring finger (or a woman's ring finger) is slightly shorter than his index finger, presumably as a result of the amount of androgen-stimulation the fetus receives while still in the womb. Thus, any layman can easily conduct his own research. The fact is, so-called gay men are biologically or genetically NO different than so-called straight men. To be more succinct, 99+% of so-called gay men have heterosexual male hands, as do 99% of of so-called straight men. All men experience homosexual thoughts. All men, by nature, have a capacity for homoerotic arousal as a aresult of casual body contact with other men. A mature male learns methods for modulating -- controlling -- his sexual feelings.
Read: "The Biological Evidence Challenged," by William Byne, Ph.D. The Scientific American Book of the Brain.
Although mutual exhibitionism and genital comparison among males is encouraged in athletic programs through nude swimming, community showers and community urinals, which can lead to experimental homosexuality, those who adopt a lesbian or gay lifestyle are most probably: (1) those who have been rejected, humiliated and "labeled" as homosexuals by the opposite sex; (2) those who have been seduced or molested by a member of the same sex, and (3) those who have failed to conform to rigid stereotypes of masculinity or feminity. A part of this labeling process is the result of the artificial dichotomies (stereotypes) utilized by psychologists and sociologists to define what traits are to be considered masculine or male and what traits are to be considered feminine or female.
Mature, well-adjusted adults generally adopt socially acceptable methods for sublimating their sex drive through their work, hobbies, athletic programs and fellowship with people of both sexes without feeling a need to objectify or label themselves. Preventing venereal disease, as well as unwanted pregnancy, are sound reasons for everyone to avoid casual and promiscuous sex. However, rectal hemmoraging is an everpresent danger when engaging in rectal sex, and is a sound reason for anyone, male or female, to avoid rectal intercourse. Male nocturnal emissions and masturbation, when alone and in the privacy of one's own bedroom, are biologically normal and seemingly necessary outlets for sexual release.
It bears repeating: Testosterone is the hormone that activates the sex drive in both males and females, although testosterone does not determine the CHOICE of a sex object. The average male has approximatley eight times the level of testosterone as a female. Thus, men are presumably more sensitive, flexible and responsive to a variety of sexual stimuli than are women, although men are not likely to reveal their innermost thoughts, as a result of social pressures.
The Ancient Greeks considered male homoerotic relationships to be the most manly form of behavior. They considered male-female romantic relationships to be emasculating. Single men, according to science, have higher levels of tetosterone than do married men, as marriage (whether to another male or female) has a tendency to weaken a man's capacity for masculine expression.
Men, even in the bedroom, are more erotically stimulated, whether with a male or female lover, by the presence of masculine imagery -- images they can identify with and that thus enhance their own excitement. Feminine surroundings are a sexual turn-off for men -- for all men.
Say No to All psychoactive drugs, including alcoholic beverages,
anti-depressants, other "mood stabilizers" and sleeping pills,
all of which reduce one's capacity for exercising sound judgment.
All heterosexual people have occasional homosexual thoughts.
Say NO to ALL forms of promiscuous sex ~ celibacy is healthy.
(Celibacy is privately relieving yourself, without the aid of a partner.)
Set a healthy example for others. Be a friend, not an exploiter.
Cultivate habits of sound nutrition by eating a daily spinach/advcado salad.
Use apple cider or red wine vinegar and canola or olive oil as a condiment.
Substitute tofu steaks and fresh fish for other forms of meat.
Steam all vegetables ~ Do not cook in oil ~ Add olive oil after cooking.
Snack on fresh fruit: apples, oranges, grapes, avocado, celery sticks, carrots
Stay out of bars! ~ Bar operators are not your friends! ~ They only want your $
Matthew Shepard, a young Wyoming lad who was reported to have been murdered in October 1998 by Aaron McKinney, a "speed freak," soon after became the poster boy for America's Gay Press
The fact is that Matthew Shepard was apparently no more gay than Aaron McKinney. Prior to the murder, Shepard and McKinney were known to have atttended some of the same private parties in their home town of Laramie and both reportedly occasionally used mind-altering drugs, including alcohol. Both were also reported to have occasionally engaged in homoerotic behavior while under the influence of either alcohol or other drugs, which is very typical of young males who have previously been victims of sexual molestation by a heterosexual male.
According to Shepard's mother, Shepard was raped (sodomized) by two older men when he was a teenager and while they were residing in North Africa (Morocco) where Shepard's father was employed as a petroleum engineer. Following the assault, according to Shepard's mother, Shepard tested positive for HIV.
Only hours prior to picking up Shepard in a bar (after presumably making sexual overtures to Shepard), then pistol whipping him, Aaron McKinney, who was suffering from severe depresssion as a result of the death of both of his parents, and who had gone through over $200,000 in insurance he inherited from his parents as a result of having been exploited by drug dealers and alcoholic beverage distributors, and who reportedly was in search of more amphetamines in order to satisfy his addiction, had savagely beat another man. After beating Shepard, McKinney reportedly tied Shepard to a fence, then left a note saying Death to Fags which was actually a ruse, in an attempt to justify his behavior by virtue of the fact that the Old Testament justifies the murder of men who engage in homosexual acts.
The Torah, the Jewish Holy Book, in the book of Leviticus, which is also the third book of the Old Testament, indeed advocates death to men who "sleep together." Leviticus 25 says "If a man lies with another man as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them." Thus, McKinney's Death to Fags message was a direct reference to the Jewish Holy Book or the Old Testament of the Bible, still highly revered by right-wing blood-thirsty Jewish and Christian religious fanatics.
Only months prior to the murder, raving religious idiot Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the 700 Club and whose father was a U.S. Senator, had reportedly said that "God is going to wreck great havoc on Orlando, Florida" merely because the operators of Disney World announced it was going to observe gay day. Who is Pat Robertson, who quite possibly has clandestinely engaged in homosexual behavior himself on occasion, to go pointing his finger at other males?! The same goes for raving idiot Rev. Fred Scumbag Phelps, who has made a career out of showing up at funerals across the country and screaming God hates fags. West Hollywood's Bachelorette-Rabbi Laura Schlesinger has also done her share of ranting and raving about the "evilness" of homoeroticism, although an overwhelming majority of West Hollywood's gay bars are owned and operated by her Jewish brothers and sisters.
Mat Shepard was no more gay than Aaron McKinney or than any other male for that matter. Shepard was not only a victim of rape and murder, he was also a victim of bad gay press!
As for the Stonewall Bar riot in New York that spawned the "1960s gay movement," long before the AIDS epidemic gonnorhea was at epidemic levels in the so-called gay community as a result of unrestrained, promiscuous sex, often in public places such as the Stonewall, which was actually an after-hours private men's club. Ironically, many of those who made complaints to the police were presumably lovers or family members of patrons, who were understandably concerned about the health risks.
Presumably, Aaron McKinney (a slightly built lad) was seduced or molested by another male and repeatedly humiliated by females long before he murdered Matthew Shepard (also a slightly built lad), which may have accounted for his accumulagted rage, as a direct result of the guilt that God-fearing blood-thirsty, sexually-repressed religious fanatics displace onto everyone else. Both McKinney and Shepard were likely victims of sexual seduction by other males and humiliation by jealous females. They were also victims of the vultures who make their living in the alcohol and drug industry. It is indeed the drugs, the psychoactive drugs, to include alcohol, amphetamines, as well as antidepressants, that unleash the violence! The prescription psychoative drugs prescribed by psychiatrists are as lethal and dangerous as are legal over-the-counter alcoholic beverages and contraband drugs.
The moral to the story? Stay away from bars. And stay away from all alcoholic beverages and other psychoactive drugs. If you can't find a true friend - male or female who is willing to respect you, not use you as a sex machine, then learn to love yourself, dude, and your own hand! It's so much easier and so much healthier in the long run!
And remember: all people share the experience of finding themselves attracted to certain others of the same sex. That is normal. That is human. What is sick is to pretend otherwise. What is also sick is to attempt to persuade others to engage in promiscuous sex!
The Episcopal Church has always had a "live and let live" attitude about sex. . . . However, a direct descendant of Bishop Seabury, the first presiding bishop of the American Episcopal Church, was one of America's first AIDS victims. Stephen Seabury Harlow, a laid-back all-around outdoorsman, succumbed to the AIDS virus in 1981. Seab spent his early adult years remodeling the Hollywood Hills houses he bought and then sold for a profit, racing his motorcycle and his sports car and scuba diving in the Virgin Islands (where his parents had established a second home). He had everything going for himself . . . . money (from a family trust fund), well-honed mechanical skills, finesse and remarkably good looks. He died at his home in Coconut Grove, Florida at the age of 51, cared for by a staff of around-the-clock private nurses.
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