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To: combjelly who wrote (972700)

10/15/2016 2:12:42 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 1571896

Well said. That is where we are heading i.e. a more complex understanding of reality. I believe looking for the complexity in life is key to understanding reality. As mentioned, one of my 10 favorite definitions is"the sophistication with which one solves a hypothesis is dependent upon how many variables they can hold in consideration at any given moment.":

The millennial's are moving as far ahead of us, as we are ahead of our parents. Only 9% of millennial's like Trump and only 6% of scientists are Republican. 51% of scientists describe themselves as liberal and over 80% as leaning Democratic.

And of course we know the reason. Scientists are trained in the language of logic and facts. The Republican Party does not like .facts. In 2012 when asked of the Republican nominees how many believed in evolution and global warming the only person that raised his hand was John Huntsman. And he quipped:" call me crazy", but I believe in global warming. In the Republican Party he had to preface it by saying:" call me crazy".

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I noticed a couple of years ago that some people were coming out public with their non-conventional sexual identities. And I don't mean gay or bisexual, which is an orientation. So, being HFA, I researched it.

It is a whole sub-community. The nomenclature is a little bewildering because there is a lot of it. Like with most things associated with human behavior that is rooted in genetics, most people are pretty conventional. Where it goes a little different, there is just an explosion of variants. Many of the differences are pretty subtle. Enough so that many are able to "pass as normal", but never really be comfortable with it. Given that it is sexual identify and orientation, and we as humans have evolved to incorporate sex in into how we organize socially, the blowback from being different exerts a lot of pressure to conform. Look at how gays can be treated, and we find them relatively tolerated now. It doesn't keep our more wingnut friends from using that as an insult or going ballistic when you hint their viewpoint on gays might just be because of them trying to deny their own tendencies...

Anyway, the 'cis' and 'trans' labels are just the surface. Because we have metaphorically let gays out of the closet and into the mainstream, other unconventional identities and orientations are drifting out of the shadows. Which I applaud. Living in the shadows is a crappy way to live.

Oh yeah. Here is where I pimp for the TV series 'Sense8'. It is SF, but it also explores other identities and orientations. Two of the three originators are what used to be the Warchowski brothers of 'The Matrix' fame and now are the Warchowski sisters. One of the actresses is trans and plays a trans character. It will change the way we think of serial video, breaking all of the TV molds that now rule the medium.