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DnD Central / Re: "Scientists Say" blather
That makes some sense. There's no reported genetic connection to bullshit, if you catch my drift.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts!"
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"Scientists have found even more evidence that sexual orientation is largely determined by genetics, not choice. That can undermine a major argument against the LBGT community that claims that these people are choosing to live "unnaturally."
That's at least according to a new and groundbreaking study recently published in the journal Psychological Medicine, which details how a study of more than 800 gay participants shared notable patterns in two regions of the human genome - one on the X chromosome and one on chromosome 8.
While many previous studies have looked into potential genetic drivers of homosexuality, these studies often boasted a significantly smaller sample size or lacked common controls. This is the first study of its kind to boast such a robust sample size and also be published in a scientific peer-reviewed paper.
Most stunningly, the team who conducted this study comes from the scientific community that has been hesitant to acknowledge the claims of previous studies, not because of their own opinions, but because of a lack of conclusive data.
The study detailed an in-depth analysis of blood and saliva samples taken from 409 pairs of openly gay brothers, including non-identical twins, from 384 families. The only common characteristic shared by all 818 men was being gay."
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=602647FA2BD5AE560C8641777A6E0E20.journals?aid=9625997&fileId=S0033291714002451
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DnD Central / Re: If there's a multiverse....
If there is a multiverse, don't worry because if something goes horribly wrong in your life, there are an infinite worlds in which things are going very well in one of your other lives.
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DnD Central / Re: Same Sex Marriage
Quote from: Frenzie on
Moral facts consist of imperatives, and imperatives are statements about what we "ought" to do (or who or what sort of person we ought to be). What does "ought" mean? That which we would do if we were reasoning logically and knew and understood all the relevant facts of our situation.
Ought we not mention the history of Western man because 'oughts' vary over time, and there's the fact that oughts differ by region.

What were Viking oughts? Classical Chinese oughts? And, yes, even Portuguese oughts. :o
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DnD Central / Re: Its is me again
In times of universal deceit, telling the honest truth is a revolutionary act.

 :wine:  Something Smiley's never been accused of. :cheers:
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Europe
Brexit as seen by U.S. loonies:
"As the United Kingdom prepared to leave the European Union, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation, the value of the pound fell and HBO had to assure worried “Game of Thrones” fans that future Northern Ireland film shoots were going to be fine, Sarah Palin came forth with her own take.

On Friday, the former Alaskan governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin congratulated the “smart Brits,” likening the June referendum to the Declaration of Independence. After all, as she noted in a Facebook post, the citizens of the United Kingdom may have avoided nothing less than the end of the world.

Palin, a Donald Trump supporter, applauded the Leave voters for outfoxing “globalists” who would bring about an “apocalyptic One World Government,” she wrote on Facebook. That is because the European Union, in her words, is a “One World Government mini-me.”

Palin’s comments marked a public embrace of a conspiracy theory popularly known as the New World Order. Palin did not elaborate what, exactly, the apocalypse would look like. But the details of who or what make up the New World Order depend on the theorist — it is a secret organization of politicians, banks, the Illuminati, the media or, perhaps, lizard people. Distilled, the main goal of the organization is a totalitarian regime that will emerge from the shadows: One World Government to rule them all."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/27/sarah-palin-celebrates-brexit-says-uk-avoided-apocalyptic-one-world-government/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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DnD Central / Re: The American 2016 Presidential Elections & The Ongoing American Saga
Have any of you heard Trump's latest?

"“I’ve been rude, rotten and repulsive throughout my personal and business life. I sincerely regret this, and the way my unpalatable proclivities have spilled into my thuggish political campaign. Unlike my trademark hair, my racism has not been thinly veiled but central to my dubious success. My nudge-nudge dislike of blacks and my 110-decibel detestation of Mexicans and Muslims won support from many of the nastiest elements in this nation – from the Ku Klux Klan to rabid anti-Semites. And my plan to build the Great Wall of Trump across our southern borders has alienated global opinion. I have been seen as a nasty hybrid of Berlusconi and Putin. But a long, private audience with Pope Francis has changed everything. I am withdrawing from the race for the White House, shaving off my silly comb-over and joining a silent order of Benedictine monks”."

I got this from a friend in the Trump palace. Please keep it to yourself until Trump makes it public.
 :cheers: