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Post by inavalan on Nov 14, 2023 4:11:21 GMT -5
I read today that in US women's life-expectancy is 6 years longer than men's. link, studyI guess there must also be such statistics broken down by gender and sex subgroups. Does this observation apply to other species too? Believing that the physical world, that one perceives, is a materialization based on an inner reality, are there any spiritual or religious explanations for the difference in life-expectancy between sexes?
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Post by inavalan on Nov 14, 2023 15:39:29 GMT -5
U.S. life expectancy at birth link2021 provisional estimates A bar chart showing 2021 provisional estimates of U.S. life expectancy at birth by race. On average, a person living in the U.S. can expect to live to 76.1 years. Asian people have the longest average life expectancy (83.5 years) and American Indian/Alaska Natives the shortest (65.2 years). | Asian | 83.5 years | | Hispanic | 77.7 | | White | 76.4 | | Black | 70.8 | | American Indian/Alaska Native | 65.2 |
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Post by inavalan on Nov 15, 2023 2:10:23 GMT -5
As I understand these ...
The length of life / moment of death is decided by one's inner-self. The external / physical conditions are just a materialization of that decision; they aren't in any way what causes any death.
The length of life doesn't reflect the degree of success of one's life. On the other hand, some of the life lessons chosen before incarnation are expected to take longer than others, so it is likely that souls that select the same kind of life lessons might experience similar life lengths. This might be reflected in groups that bare other similar characteristics like sex, race, ...
Most humans aren't aware of the life lesson they're currently learning, but this is not by design, but because they have been hypnotized by society's beliefs. Recognizing some characteristics is supposed to bring together humans enrolled to learn similar lessons, and would make this learning more effective.
Surely, each soul knew the conditions he incarnated into, and believed that he will handle them successfully. If they overestimated their abilities, suffering will be experienced. That may cause them to decide to abandon the current attempt when the progress is stalled. That is a decision at inner-self level, based on the inner-self's assessment, and death is not caused by external / physical factors.
It is like a classroom where students of different grades study / practice together, different groups having different curriculums.
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Post by inavalan on Dec 20, 2023 15:59:20 GMT -5
linkDashcam video shows Vermont man being arrested after flipping off state trooper: 'Freedom of expression' Gregory Bombard was arrested for disorderly conduct in February 2018 Spiritual interpretation? That would be nice ... Also, if this happened to you, while walking with your wife and kids minding your business, what would you do? What would your recourse be? What are, should be your rights not to be attacked verbally or graphically? Where do you draw the line beyond which you don't have to accept to be injured for the sake of a greater good?
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Post by zendancer on Dec 20, 2023 16:15:44 GMT -5
As I understand these ... The length of life / moment of death is decided by one's inner-self. The external / physical conditions are just a materialization of that decision; they aren't in any way what causes any death. The length of life doesn't reflect the degree of success of one's life. On the other hand, some of the life lessons chosen before incarnation are expected to take longer than others, so it is likely that souls that select the same kind of life lessons might experience similar life lengths. This might be reflected in groups that bare other similar characteristics like sex, race, ... Most humans aren't aware of the life lesson they're currently learning, but this is not by design, but because they have been hypnotized by society's beliefs. Recognizing some characteristics is supposed to bring together humans enrolled to learn similar lessons, and would make this learning more effective. Surely, each soul knew the conditions he incarnated into, and believed that he will handle them successfully. If they overestimated their abilities, suffering will be experienced. That may cause them to decide to abandon the current attempt when the progress is stalled. That is a decision at inner-self level, based on the inner-self's assessment, and death is not caused by external / physical factors. It is like a classroom where students of different grades study / practice together, different groups having different curriculums. I think anyone who reads about the cultural differences in lifestyle, degree of success, etc. could reasonably see why some people live lots longer than others. The "Blue Zones" are areas in the world where people exercise more, eat healthier non-processed foods, have better social relationships, have a purpose for life (ikigai), have a more optimistic/happier outlook on life, etc. In "Blue Zones," such as Okinawa, Sicily, etc, it is common to live to be 100. In the USA it's well known that wealthier people live much longer than poor people simply due to better healthcare options. In one city in Ohio, for example, people who live only one mile apart in different zip codes live ten years longer than their nearby neighbors, and it's almost totally due to lifestyle and wealth factors. Sure, psychology plays a role, |
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Post by inavalan on Dec 20, 2023 20:47:47 GMT -5
linkDashcam video shows Vermont man being arrested after flipping off state trooper: 'Freedom of expression' Gregory Bombard was arrested for disorderly conduct in February 2018 Spiritual interpretation? That would be nice ... Also, if this happened to you, while walking with your wife and kids minding your business, what would you do? What would your recourse be? What are, should be your rights not to be attacked verbally or graphically? Where do you draw the line beyond which you don't have to accept to be injured for the sake of a greater good? . The abused attracted the abuser and that abusive situation with his beliefs, emotions, expectations, both conscious and subconscious. Once in that situation, you still have the power and the free choice to change the outcome to some degree. That abuser, who is responsible for his abusing, was seeking (at inner level) for a willing (at inner level) abuse-victim. |
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Post by laughter on Dec 21, 2023 14:11:38 GMT -5
linkDashcam video shows Vermont man being arrested after flipping off state trooper: 'Freedom of expression' Gregory Bombard was arrested for disorderly conduct in February 2018 Spiritual interpretation? That would be nice ... Also, if this happened to you, while walking with your wife and kids minding your business, what would you do? What would your recourse be? What are, should be your rights not to be attacked verbally or graphically? Where do you draw the line beyond which you don't have to accept to be injured for the sake of a greater good? Give Bombard a Darwin award.  |
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Post by laughter on Dec 21, 2023 14:12:47 GMT -5
linkDashcam video shows Vermont man being arrested after flipping off state trooper: 'Freedom of expression' Gregory Bombard was arrested for disorderly conduct in February 2018 Spiritual interpretation? That would be nice ... Also, if this happened to you, while walking with your wife and kids minding your business, what would you do? What would your recourse be? What are, should be your rights not to be attacked verbally or graphically? Where do you draw the line beyond which you don't have to accept to be injured for the sake of a greater good? . The abused attracted the abuser and that abusive situation with his beliefs, emotions, expectations, both conscious and subconscious. Once in that situation, you still have the power and the free choice to change the outcome to some degree. That abuser, who is responsible for his abusing, was seeking (at inner level) for a willing (at inner level) abuse-victim. Yes, that's about right, in this instance.  |
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Post by inavalan on Dec 21, 2023 21:36:45 GMT -5
linkA chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males - Abstract
Rodent tears contain social chemosignals with diverse effects, including blocking male aggression.
- Human tears also contain a chemosignal that lowers male testosterone, but its behavioral significance was unclear.
- Because reduced testosterone is associated with reduced aggression, we tested the hypothesis that human tears act like rodent tears to block male aggression. Using a standard behavioral paradigm, we found that sniffing emotional tears with no odor percept reduced human male aggression by 43.7%.
- To probe the peripheral brain substrates of this effect, we applied tears to 62 human olfactory receptors in vitro. We identified 4 receptors that responded in a dose-dependent manner to this stimulus.
- Finally, to probe the central brain substrates of this effect, we repeated the experiment concurrent with functional brain imaging. We found that sniffing tears increased functional connectivity between the neural substrates of olfaction and aggression, reducing overall levels of neural activity in the latter.
Taken together, our results imply that like in rodents, a human tear–bound chemosignal lowers male aggression, a mechanism that likely relies on the structural and functional overlap in the brain substrates of olfaction and aggression.
- We suggest that tears are a mammalian-wide mechanism that provides a chemical blanket protecting against aggression.
Spiritual interpretation? Beliefs ... emotions ... expectations ... reality.
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Post by inavalan on Dec 21, 2023 22:18:42 GMT -5
As I understand these ... The length of life / moment of death is decided by one's inner-self. The external / physical conditions are just a materialization of that decision; they aren't in any way what causes any death. The length of life doesn't reflect the degree of success of one's life. On the other hand, some of the life lessons chosen before incarnation are expected to take longer than others, so it is likely that souls that select the same kind of life lessons might experience similar life lengths. This might be reflected in groups that bare other similar characteristics like sex, race, ... Most humans aren't aware of the life lesson they're currently learning, but this is not by design, but because they have been hypnotized by society's beliefs. Recognizing some characteristics is supposed to bring together humans enrolled to learn similar lessons, and would make this learning more effective. Surely, each soul knew the conditions he incarnated into, and believed that he will handle them successfully. If they overestimated their abilities, suffering will be experienced. That may cause them to decide to abandon the current attempt when the progress is stalled. That is a decision at inner-self level, based on the inner-self's assessment, and death is not caused by external / physical factors. It is like a classroom where students of different grades study / practice together, different groups having different curriculums. The "Blue Zones" are areas in the world where people exercise more, eat healthier non-processed foods, have better social relationships, have a purpose for life (ikigai), have a more optimistic/happier outlook on life, etc. In "Blue Zones," such as Okinawa, Sicily, etc, it is common to live to be 100. In the USA it's well known that wealthier people live much longer than poor people simply due to better healthcare options. In one city in Ohio, for example, people who live only one mile apart in different zip codes live ten years longer than their nearby neighbors, and it's almost totally due to lifestyle and wealth factors. Sure, psychology plays a role, is a physical-oriented explanation. An alternative non-physical explanation is that those who live longer are only those who, as incarnational personalities, chose to live long lives, before incarnating, and who didn't relinquish that choice. They may have chosen that for developmental purposes, such as to have more room for practicing intuition, or for problem-solving purposes, such as overcoming some physical and / or mental problems widely believed to be inherent to aging. Once the choice of a long life was made, circumstances were dynamically adjusted to justify its materialization. |
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Post by inavalan on Dec 23, 2023 0:31:27 GMT -5
My wife is a "Doctor Who" fan, and she's binge re-watching beginning with the 2005 season. I don't care for this series, but yesterday it happened that we watched together the "Christmas Invasion" episode. plotIn a few words, the British send a space probe that is intercepted by an alien race, that so finds out about the Earth's being livable. The aliens use a human blood sample ('brainlessly' placed there by scientists as proof of life on Earth) to take hypnotic control over one third of the human population, and use that to blackmail the Earth into surrendering into slavery. The Doctor intervenes, challenges the alien commander to a sward fight, wins, and orders the aliens to leave and never return, which the aliens do. This is the point where the video-clip starts. Although the aliens left, the British prime-minister orders the army to shoot and destroy the leaving alien ship (it seems that they could do that by using some reverse-engineered alien technology, which they can do now because the alien mind control had been removed by the Doctor ...). The Doctor gets upset, accuses the prime-minister of murder, and disgusted, vows to bring down the government (which apparently he succeeds by starting a rumor just by asking "Don't you think she looks tired?"). - - - My wife asked what I would have done; she would've done as the prime-minister did. I wouldn't have. Spiritual interpretation? Defend yourself, but acting from anger and / or fear, will materialize in situations that will hurt you. EDIT: Surely, you shouldn't have gotten into that situation in the first place, but in case you did ... Without politicizing, parallels with historical and current events can easily be drawn. |
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Post by inavalan on Jan 1, 2024 5:24:58 GMT -5
I've had long, and generally amicable, conversations with several transpeople on twitter recently. I am sensitive to what's going on with them, and choose my language carefully. It doesn't always go well, but you can't win them all. The subject fascinates me because it is centred around the idea of 'identity', a conversation we have here very often. Their philosophy is very convoluted, very confusing, and if they weren't "allied" with each other, they would notice that their narratives often don't match up. I've generally tried to talk a bit about how categories are created, how we identify with those categories, and form a personal sense of 'who we are' based on that identification. One very interesting and smart person agreed with me, but believed that this 'sense' is utterly fixed....i.e there's nothing we can do about it, and medical transition is the solution, if their 'fixed sense' doesn't match their biology. I went on to talk a bit about my experience with advaita, Buddhism etc in relation to identification, the volitional 'I' etc. She was balanced enough to listen, but there's a bit of irony in the scepticism shown towards my own subjective experience. I'm sure you made the right choice in going along with it. I think they get the idea that there is someone who is something and that someone is misrepresented by the body, but my main contact with trans-woman is in sports where you have blokes who seem to actually believe they qualify as females. Than's when you have tell a bloke "No".
Otherwise, if a guy wants to do the lady-boy thing, it's still delusional but it's fine and I like it - until the guy is like, I'm a real woman, and the rest of us pretend we believe it's true
Better we know there's real woman who are born that way, there's trans-women who are males and these are NOT the same thing. It's that simple.
I state the obvious, but people out there are trying to convince others that it makes no difference. In most situations it doesn't, but when it's plain physical contest, it's not on, and also other female spaces, houses, clubs and groups etc where it's 'no boys allowed'. Trans-woman is a category of male. Other definitions only work to the exclusion of the body itself, and that makes so sense whatsoever, but particularly when it comes to sports.
I'm replying on this different thread, because my post is more related to this thread's topic than to the topic of the other thread. This is about a spiritual interpretation of the "trans" subject. As I got used to happen quite often, during the last day it happened to think about this same subject, which otherwise I rarely think of. Starting from an unrelated point, I asked: is there a "woman" gestalt of consciousness? I think there is. If there is, is a trans-woman an element of the "woman" gestalt? I think that if innerly you are a woman, then you manifest physically as a woman, as the physical is always a manifestation in matter of the non-physical inner. If you don't manifest physically as a woman, it means that your personality holds beliefs that it isn't a woman. Again, the outer is the "mirror" of the inner; thought precedes matter. It is a matter of different gestalts of consciousness: "woman" and "trans-woman". Same about heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, ... different gestalts with distinct elements. This points toward more differentiation, rather than less. Does it matter? I think it does. They are different identities, that "resonate" differently, and that are attracted into different gestalts, with different properties. The Delphic maxims say: know yourself; don't claim to be something else; when you do, there is misfortune / suffering. So, if you suffer, that means that you knowingly or unknowingly don't act according to what you are. |
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Post by inavalan on Jan 8, 2024 2:45:52 GMT -5
Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of many different host treesduckduckgo.com/?q=Boquila+trifoliolataIn 2014, a new species of the vine (Boquila trifoliolata) was discovered in Chile that can mimic the leaves of many different host trees. It can change the size, shape, color, orientation, and even the vein patterns of its leaves to match the surrounding foliage. It is the only known plant that can do this. - - - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34545774/Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant Abstract Upon discovery that the Boquila trifoliolata is capable of flexible leaf mimicry, the question of the mechanism behind this ability has been unanswered. Here, we demonstrate that plant vision possibly via plant-specific ocelli is a plausible hypothesis. A simple experiment by placing an artificial vine model above the living plants has shown that these will attempt to mimic the artificial leaves. The experiment has been carried out with multiple plants, and each plant has shown attempts at mimicry. It was observed that mimic leaves showed altered leaf areas, perimeters, lengths, and widths compared to non-mimic leaves. We have calculated four morphometrical features and observed that mimic leaves showed higher aspect ratio and lower rectangularity and form factor compared to non-mimic leaves. In addition, we have observed differences in the leaf venation patterns, with the mimic leaves having less dense vascular networks, thinner vascular strands, and lower numbers of free-ending veinlets.
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Post by inavalan on Jan 8, 2024 3:15:19 GMT -5
Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of many different host treesduckduckgo.com/?q=Boquila+trifoliolataIn 2014, a new species of the vine (Boquila trifoliolata) was discovered in Chile that can mimic the leaves of many different host trees. It can change the size, shape, color, orientation, and even the vein patterns of its leaves to match the surrounding foliage. It is the only known plant that can do this. - - - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34545774/Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant Abstract Upon discovery that the Boquila trifoliolata is capable of flexible leaf mimicry, the question of the mechanism behind this ability has been unanswered. Here, we demonstrate that plant vision possibly via plant-specific ocelli is a plausible hypothesis. A simple experiment by placing an artificial vine model above the living plants has shown that these will attempt to mimic the artificial leaves. The experiment has been carried out with multiple plants, and each plant has shown attempts at mimicry. It was observed that mimic leaves showed altered leaf areas, perimeters, lengths, and widths compared to non-mimic leaves. We have calculated four morphometrical features and observed that mimic leaves showed higher aspect ratio and lower rectangularity and form factor compared to non-mimic leaves. In addition, we have observed differences in the leaf venation patterns, with the mimic leaves having less dense vascular networks, thinner vascular strands, and lower numbers of free-ending veinlets. |
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Post by zendancer on Jan 8, 2024 8:36:13 GMT -5
Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of many different host treesduckduckgo.com/?q=Boquila+trifoliolataIn 2014, a new species of the vine (Boquila trifoliolata) was discovered in Chile that can mimic the leaves of many different host trees. It can change the size, shape, color, orientation, and even the vein patterns of its leaves to match the surrounding foliage. It is the only known plant that can do this. - - - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34545774/Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant Abstract Upon discovery that the Boquila trifoliolata is capable of flexible leaf mimicry, the question of the mechanism behind this ability has been unanswered. Here, we demonstrate that plant vision possibly via plant-specific ocelli is a plausible hypothesis. A simple experiment by placing an artificial vine model above the living plants has shown that these will attempt to mimic the artificial leaves. The experiment has been carried out with multiple plants, and each plant has shown attempts at mimicry. It was observed that mimic leaves showed altered leaf areas, perimeters, lengths, and widths compared to non-mimic leaves. We have calculated four morphometrical features and observed that mimic leaves showed higher aspect ratio and lower rectangularity and form factor compared to non-mimic leaves. In addition, we have observed differences in the leaf venation patterns, with the mimic leaves having less dense vascular networks, thinner vascular strands, and lower numbers of free-ending veinlets. Wow! That's far out. Good find. |
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