GAY BIRDS

What is the public attitude to gay people?



Scientists in the USA have been studying gay birds and have found that they sing to each other and preen each other.



(Research published in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology - Same-sex birds form lasting bond - BBC)



The scientists studied young zebra finches.



When raised in same-sex groups, most of the birds acted gay.



When females were brought into a male group, five out of eight pairs of males ignored the females and remained with their male partner.



Dr Julie Elie, from the University of California, Berkeley, said: "same-sex individuals... interact... like male-female pairs."



Dr Elie said that, with gulls and albatrosses, "female partners copulate with a paired male then rear the young together."



Research by the advertising agencies has found that images of boys have a far wider appeal, for both men and women, than images of girls or women or men. In the novella Death in Venice, Aschenbach/Mann is the cerebral, sexually repressed, politically conservative, writer who has achieved fame but whose writing lacks deep insight into the world of love and lust. In Venice he lets sensual beauty into his life and goes astray. He becomes a slave to desire, feels tortured by guilt, and cannot relax. And his "dignity is rescued only by ... Death." Mann is warning us to avoid extremes.



The Old Testament was not keen on homosexual activity, because it did not lead to the production of lots of children for the tribe.



Today, in an over-populated world, the 'powers-that-be' may have decided to relax their attitudes.



Attitudes can be changed fairly easily.



Our attitude to Moslems is being changed. Turkey's Foreign Minister and Hilary Clinton, best of friends.



In 2001, we were brainwashed into thinking that Moslems were terrorists.



In 2011, with the Turks and many other Moslems now in the New World Order, we are being brainwashed into thinking that lots of Moslems are good guys.



The new enemy are those folks who protest against the bankers. Agents provocateurs must turn the protests violent.



But, there are still lots of homophobes.



For the Buddhists, all visual attraction is the reaction of the lower self. Fleshly charm does not last and is in a sense unreal. In other words, you don't need a girl/boyfriend; and thegirl/boyfriend's sexiness is a bit of an illusion. However, according to the Buddhists, avoiding sex, while continuing to think foul thoughts, is not good. Better to obtain physical outlet, while thinking wholesome thoughts. (aangirfan: THOMAS MANN)



The Rev George Hargreaves, whose family come from Trinidad and Tobago, is leader of the Scottish Christian Party, which believes that homosexuality is a sin.



According to The Times, 13 April 2007, (Times Online), Hargreaves made millions from his success on the gay club scene.



While he was a DJ in London, he shared a flat with his gay song-writing partner.



He wrote the gay anthem "So Macho" which was a hit in gay clubs in the United Kingdom in 1986. (Times Online)



Francois Boucher



The Rev Ian Watson, of the Church of Scotland, has attacked homosexual lifestyles, declaring that such people would not “inherit the kingdom of God.”



In his sermon, Watson invoked John Calvin and Martin Luther.



(Anti-gay minister the Rev Ian Watson in outrage)



Denise Richards and Neve Campbell



Jerome Bolsec published a life of Calvin, 'Vie de Calvin', in 1577.



According to Bolsec, Calvin frequently engaged in gay sex.



According to Bolsec, Calvin resigned his church post at Noyon, in France, because of the public exposure of his homosexuality.



Westheimer and Lopater's, Human Sexuality: A Psychosocial Perspective, Second Edition, refers to Martin Luther. (http://66.102.9.104/5)



According to the authors, in his youth, Martin Luther struggled with his own sexuality.



Luther tried to deny his homosexual attractions to other men.



During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther came to believe that if two people are devoted to each other and to God, it does not matter if they enjoy a homosexual relationship.







In the New Scientist, 27 October 2007 (Population is the key), Andrew Ferguson pointed out that:



1. World population is likely to be 10 billion by 2070.



2. Even if we adopt a simpler lifesyle, as for example in Cuba, the planet will not be able to cope.



3. For everyone to enjoy western European lifestyles, the world population needs to be about 2 billion.



To help save the planet, we need to demolish the last great taboo.



We need to stop forcing people to go in for relationships that lead to the production of babies.



Gay Moslem Art



Pop star Rihanna has a video in which she is kissing a woman.



"In doing so she joins a long line of famous women who’ve had a lesbian clinch on camera, from Britney Spears and Madonna to Nev Campbell and Denise Richards."



(After Rihanna's girl-on-girl kiss: More female stars' lesbian - Metro)



You may have noticed a few girls kissing.



Pamela Anderson kissing Lindsay Lohan



Professor Germaine Greer, formerly Professor of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick, claims that saying boys are beautiful amounts to 'demolishing one of the last great western taboos.'



Peter Conrad reviewed Greer's book on The Boy in the Observer, 26 October 2003. - (http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/l )



According to Conrad, Germaine Greer warns women that "they are ill-equipped to act as 'sex objects' and are 'programmed for failure in their duty of attraction'."



According to Conrad, 'Greer believes that the job of arousing desire is done better, and with an ecumenical appeal to both men and women, by the boys who teasingly lounge and cockily strut through the pages of her book.'



Conrad tells us of Greer's belief that 'If nature didn't intend boys to be seduced by older men and women, why did it make them so damnably fetching, so downy-cheeked, rangy-limbed and pert-buttocked?'



Gay Chinese (http://gay-art/china-homosexual-art/l)



In the 15th century, the wealthier women of Cairo were so concerned by the fashion among their husbands for youths and young men, that they took to dressing up in men's attire.



Homosexuality used to be common throughout the Moslem world. During the early years of Islam, homosexuality was seemingly not regarded as a crime.



In Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, before the missionaries arrived, homosexuality was widespread. (Bisexual Africa / Bisexual animals? Bisexual Moslems? Sex with boys? / Mediterranean customs?)



Among the Fon, the predominant people in Dahomey (now Benin), Melville Herskovits in the 1930s reported that, after the age at which boys and girls may play together, "the sex drive finds satisfaction in close friendship between boys in the same group . . .



A boy may take the other 'as a woman,' this being called gaglgo, homosexuality.



Sometimes an affair of this sort persists during the entire life of the pair".



Jessica Biel and Sarah Silverman



Miranda Kennedy, in The Boston Globe, 11 July 2004, wrote that, traditionally, men in Pakistan have sex with boys.



When the Spanish Conquistadors conquered Central America and the Yucatan in Mexico, they found that most native Indian priests were homosexual.



In their temples were sacred statues depicting gay sex acts.



The Romans were pretty gay. Cato the Censor complained about 200 B.C.E. that a handsome slave boy cost as much as a farm.



Britney and Madonna. Is the media trying to change people's views?



So, who is it that has been encouraging us all to have babies? Who is it that is homophobic?



1. It is the fundamentalists and conservatives - whether Christian or Moslem or Hindu or Marxist - who have nisunderstood the wishes of God.



2. It is the big corporations - who want lots of workers and consumers.



3. It is the militarists - who want their nations to have strong armies.



4. It is the brainwashed masses who know little of the animal kingdom.



Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd



According to an article entitled: Bigots are buggers :



"Research by US psychologists suggests that 80% of men who are homophobic have secret homosexual feelings.



"The research results were published in the prestigious Journal of Abnormal Psychology, with the backing of the American Psychological Association.



"In tests conducted by Prof. Henry E Adams of the University of Georgia, homophobic men who said they were exclusively heterosexual were shown gay sex videos. Four out of five became sexually aroused by the homoerotic imagery, as recorded by a penile circumference measuring device - a plethysmograph.



Gustave Courbet



Joan Roughgarden is a professor of biology at Stanford University.



According to Roughgarden, gayness is something you necessarily find in advanced societies.



Jonah Lehrer writing at Seed: The Gay Animal Kingdom:



Roughgarden argues that homosexuality is a defining feature of advanced animal communities, which require communal bonds in order to function.



"The more complex and sophisticated a social system is," she writes, "the more likely it is to have homosexuality intermixed with heterosexuality."



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Aangirfan is a cooperative of convent school girls and we strongly recommend celibacy. In underpopulated countries it is OK to increase the size of the population. But the Chinese, Indians and Americans should reassess their attitudes to sexuality.



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Richard Kurdt left a comment about us human beings.



"There is an invisible, ineffable spirit within your physical body." - FINDING GOD

GOOD NEWS ON NATURE

"Nim was raised as if he were human – almost. He was dressed in shorts, T-shirts and nappies. He would eat at the table with the rest of the family.



"Under LaFarge’s tuition he quickly began to pick up signs: 'eat’, 'Nim’, 'me’, 'hug’, 'sorry’."



(Project Nim: the chimp who was brought up like a child)







Fascists claim that Nature is essentially cruel.



Fascists justify such things as false flag terrorism on the grounds that this is how Nature works.



But Nature is a mixture of kindness and cruelty.



On 8 August 2011, we read of new research showing that chimpanzees can be unselfish and kind.



The research is published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(Chimpanzees Not Selfish) t



"It's now suspected that all primates and mammals possess empathy and associated charitable behaviors."



"Since empathy is an old mammalian trait, there is no reason why the sort of altruism we describe should be unique for the primates," says researcher Frans de Waal.



"I expect it will be found in dogs (and) rats," says de Waal.



It should be noted that insects, and many other creatures, help each other out.





De Waal and colleagues devised an experiment in which chimps chose 'tokens' which led to food.



The chimps nearly always chose the tokens that "would yield food rewards for both the selector and the nearby observing chimp."



Primatologist Christophe Boesch says: "All studies with wild chimpanzees have amply documented that they share meat and other food abundantly, that they help one another in highly risky situations, like when facing predators or neighboring communities, and adopt needing orphans."



Boesch said altruistic behavior happens in the wild.



Jack (left) and Ralph (right) from Lord of the Flies. (http://lordoftheflies.org/gal/lotf.htm)



1. Chimpanzees will help humans without any reward in return.[8]



Bonobos have been observed aiding injured or handicapped bonobos.[9]



Animals that cooperate are more likely to survive.



Cooperation is a very successful survival strategy.



It has been the basis of all the most dramatic steps in the history of life.



(Evolution myths: 'Survival of the fittest' justifies 'everyone for ...)



http://lordoftheflies.org/



Research by Darlene Francis and Michael Meaney shows that kindly environments, involving hugs and warm touch, make individuals better suited to survival and reproduction.



"Rat pups who receive high levels of tactile contact from their mothers - in the form of licking, grooming, and close bodily contact - later as mature rats show reduced levels of stress hormones in response to being restrained, explore novel environments with greater gusto, show fewer stress-related neurons in the brain, and have more robust immune systems." (Darwin's Touch: Survival of the Kindest Psychology Today )



http://lordoftheflies.org/



In his book, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that empathy helps survival.



"The nasty, brutish existence dominated by 'savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit' that Dawkins describes is far from the norm for animals that live in social groups.



"They thrive because of the cooperation, conciliation, and, above all, the empathy that they display towards fellow members.



"The support and protection they receive from living in a group more than compensates for any selfish advantage they might have achieved on their own." (Survival of the Kindest - SEEDMAGAZINE.COM)



So, we should choose leaders who believe, not in bombs, but in kindness and cooperation.







2. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, we find Ralph, the good guy who favours cooperation.



And we find Jack, the bad guy who believes in survival of the most brutal and devious.



Jack is the bully who tries to get his way by conning people, seducing people, or intimidating people.



Jack is the sort of person who becomes a politician or a spy.



We should choose leaders like Ralph and not leaders like Jack.



Superficial charm?



3. Jim Kouri is a vice president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police.



Kouri describes the personality traits common to psychopathic serial killers. (Oh-oh! Politicians share personality traits with serial killers: Study)



These traits include superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others.



These traits, Kouri points out in his analysis, are common to American politicians.



We should stop voting for psychopaths.



Germans and English play football during World War I.



4. Most people are not psycopaths!



In the 1940s, Brigadier Gen. S.L.A. Marshall claimed that only 15-20% of America's World War II soldiers would use their weapons in battle.



The majority of soldiers at that time were not psychopaths. (On Killing, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, p. 4 - The Canadian National Newspaper: Twilight of the Psychopaths )



We should not support leaders who want to brainwash our children and turn them into killer soldiers.





5. Psychologist Oliver James, in The Guardian (Guardian Unlimited Special reports So George, how do you feel ...), wrote about George Bush that "The outcome of (his) childhood was what psychologists call an authoritarian personality.



"Authoritarianism was identified shortly after the second world war as part of research to discover the causes of fascism."



We should not vote for people like Bush.





6. Peter Dunn, at The New Statesman (New Statesman - So were the Tories right after all?), wrote: "For several weeks, I have been talking to psychologists and psychiatrists about what drives the Prime Minister.



"One view emerged strongly: there appears to be something worryingly adrift in the mind of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, a man who doesn't really know who or what he is.



"More technically, he is diagnosed as a psychopath capable of reinventing himself with remarkable dexterity, like an actor...



"Therapists agree that the ability to disassociate yourself from the consequences of what you have done is a classic ingredient of the psychopathic condition.



"Dorothy Rowe, a much-published Australian psychologist, compares Blair's style to that of Michael Jackson, the singer. 'Both are dominated in adult life by fantasies,' she says."



We should not vote for people like Blair.



Strauss



The Jew who is the chief philosopher of many of the top people is Leo Strauss.



Strauss taught that those who are fit to rule are those who realise there is no morality.



Strauss believed in false flag operations, because rulers have to use deception to achieve their ends.Strauss believed in Fascism.



Strauss believed that a country or Empire has to invent an enemy (such as al Qaeda).



We should not vote for people who are fans of strauss.







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anarchore left a comment on this post: Check out the anarchist Piotr Kropotkin, who found that Mutual Aid was the major factor in survival, not competition.



http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_archives/kropotkin/mutaidch1.html







Malooga comments:



The standard academic work is Robert Axelrod's "The Evolution of Cooperation."



May I also highly recommend Susan Rosenthal's "Power and Powerlessness," one of the most important, beautiful and moving books I have ever read. You can download a pdf for free at her website, or listen to it on mp3 for free download from the Unwelcome Guests website.



Also at Unwelcome Guests are many other fine free programs on cooperation.



For the opposite, I recommend Robert Hare's work and website on psychopaths.



Also, a lot of good information at radio4all.net, search "psychopath."



Less recommended is the book "Political Ponerology," which despite its good intentions, naively recommends testing people for sociopathic tendencies and then isolating them; assuming the sociopaths gain control of the testing apparatus and then use it to institutionalize empathic people who oppose them, the result would be a far worse dystopia than even today.



Canspeccy brings up some very important issues. How do we recognize psychopaths, and how do we protect ourselves from them? Also important, is why do people become psychopaths?



Thinkers like Louis Mumford, Jaques Ellul and Ivan Illich have wrestled with these problems and see the issue as having to do with our relationship with technology and how we have created hierarchical, compartmentalized societies that run like huge machines -- where the individual is subservient to the "mega-machine" of empire, shall we say.



It seems to me that the more we can structure our society at the local level where it works for people -- instead of people working for it -- and the more we can foster real community, the better we can reintegrate psychopaths into society and limit the damage that they can do.



Also recommended is Erich Fromm's "The Revolution of Hope, toward a humanized technology."



Global undemocratic governance is all about setting up unaccountable systems: Drones and smart bombs, derivates and commodity future indexes, debt financing, etc.



All of these positions literally cry out for psychopaths to fill them, or force normal people trapped in these positions to become monsters in order to survive.



We must work to oppose and dismantle all unaccountable systems and replace them with the most accountable localized solutions possible.



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"Nim began his life with a huge family of devoted caretakers, but for most of the rest of it he was isolated and lonely. He could sign 120 words, but could barely communicate with his own species. For Nim, who died of a heart attack at a relatively young 26, there was no happy ending." (Chimp Raised As a Boy in 'Project Nim'.)