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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. Consume soy milk and tofu (40 ozs. per day) and fin fish (sardines, mackeral, tuna) and light meat (non-fried) poultry.
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ongoing cruel disparagement by signifacant others may be an underlying
factor in the development of schizophrenic disorders, according to theorists.
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, soy milk enchanced with calcium and non-fat milk (for protein and calcium). Sip lots of CHAMOMILE TEA WITH PEPPERMINT (to calm nerves) in lieu of other beverages. Suggestion: Fill your coffee-maker with hot water, then put chamomile tea bags in glass receptacle.
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 coffee and other caffeine products and alcoholic beverages (including wine) altogether.
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. DRINK SOY MILK. 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. Exercise regularly, walking instead of riding whenever possible. Engage yourself in light aerobic exercises inside your home. Speak only when necessary. Avoid idle chat. Meditate quietly by yourself.
Tom's Tofu Steak & Omelet Recipe ~ House Foods America Tofu Recipes
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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.
Social conditioning and economics are the primary factors influencing the choice of a life mate or a sexual partner. State-mandated (coerced) heterosexuality and social ostracism of consensual homosexuality are primary underlying factors in the development of schizophrenic behavior patterns and of domestic and non-domestic violence. Celibacy is a wise choice. Conjugal relationships can keep both partners in a state of perpetual emotional strain.
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.
Say NO to ALL forms of promiscuous sex ~ celibacy is healthy.
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 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
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 $
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