Could THIS be the root of the fact that approximately 40% of the world's population is considered to be 'sociopathic'?????
I'd say there is grounds for it.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20975555-1242,00.html
Read:
A COMMON parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.
About 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians.
Human infection generally occurs when people eat raw or undercooked meat that has cysts containing the parasite, or accidentally ingest some of the parasite's eggs excreted by an infected cat.
The parasite is known to be dangerous to pregnant women as it can cause disability or abortion of the unborn child, and can also kill people whose immune systems are weakened.
Until recently it was thought to be an insignificant disease in healthy people, Sydney University of Technology infectious disease researcher Nicky Boulter said, but new research has revealed its mind-altering properties.
"Interestingly, the effect of infection is different between men and women,'' Dr Boulter writes in the latest issue of Australasian Science magazine.
"Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.
"On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.
"In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens''.
Dr Boulter said the recent Czech Republic research was not conclusive, but was backed up by animal studies that found infection also changes the behaviour of mice.
The mice were more likely to take risks that increased their chance of being eaten by cats, which would allow the parasite to continue its life cycle.
Rodents treated with drugs that killed the parasites reversed their behaviour, Dr Boulter said.
Another study showed people who were infected but not showing symptoms were 2.7 times more likely than uninfected people to be involved in a car accident as a driver or pedestrian, while other research has linked the parasite to higher incidences of schizophrenia.
"The increasing body of evidence connecting Toxoplasma infection with changes in personality and mental state, combined with the extremely high incidence of human infection in both developing and developed countries, warrants increased government funding and research, in particular to find safe and effective treatments or vaccines,'' Dr Boulter said.
Due to the fact that I'm doing lots of cancer research these days, I've come across the fact that more and more scientists and researchers are coming to the conclusion that cancers, the majority of them, are due to viral/bactierial infection, ie this creates the 'precondition' for the cancer. For example, the isopropyl alchohol used in lets say..'spice' or 'flavoring' creation, for given prepared mass produced foods, this specific ingredient weakens the immune system and it's responses..the viral contagien gains a foothold, the body does not respond correctly and cancer is the result.
I myself, stay completely away from canned goods, heavily prepared foods like fozen/canned types, and don't like using anything (usually never use them) that may have isopropyl alchohol in it, like aftershave or colognes.
For example, giving your kids 'pizza pockets' from the frozen food section..may simply be..killing them.
I'd say there is grounds for it.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20975555-1242,00.html
Read:
A COMMON parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.
About 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians.
Human infection generally occurs when people eat raw or undercooked meat that has cysts containing the parasite, or accidentally ingest some of the parasite's eggs excreted by an infected cat.
The parasite is known to be dangerous to pregnant women as it can cause disability or abortion of the unborn child, and can also kill people whose immune systems are weakened.
Until recently it was thought to be an insignificant disease in healthy people, Sydney University of Technology infectious disease researcher Nicky Boulter said, but new research has revealed its mind-altering properties.
"Interestingly, the effect of infection is different between men and women,'' Dr Boulter writes in the latest issue of Australasian Science magazine.
"Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.
"On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.
"In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens''.
Dr Boulter said the recent Czech Republic research was not conclusive, but was backed up by animal studies that found infection also changes the behaviour of mice.
The mice were more likely to take risks that increased their chance of being eaten by cats, which would allow the parasite to continue its life cycle.
Rodents treated with drugs that killed the parasites reversed their behaviour, Dr Boulter said.
Another study showed people who were infected but not showing symptoms were 2.7 times more likely than uninfected people to be involved in a car accident as a driver or pedestrian, while other research has linked the parasite to higher incidences of schizophrenia.
"The increasing body of evidence connecting Toxoplasma infection with changes in personality and mental state, combined with the extremely high incidence of human infection in both developing and developed countries, warrants increased government funding and research, in particular to find safe and effective treatments or vaccines,'' Dr Boulter said.
Due to the fact that I'm doing lots of cancer research these days, I've come across the fact that more and more scientists and researchers are coming to the conclusion that cancers, the majority of them, are due to viral/bactierial infection, ie this creates the 'precondition' for the cancer. For example, the isopropyl alchohol used in lets say..'spice' or 'flavoring' creation, for given prepared mass produced foods, this specific ingredient weakens the immune system and it's responses..the viral contagien gains a foothold, the body does not respond correctly and cancer is the result.
I myself, stay completely away from canned goods, heavily prepared foods like fozen/canned types, and don't like using anything (usually never use them) that may have isopropyl alchohol in it, like aftershave or colognes.
For example, giving your kids 'pizza pockets' from the frozen food section..may simply be..killing them.
And men with lower IQ's are attracted to women who are more promiscuous ..........
Hmmmmmmmmmm......
-Chris 😀
Hmmmmmmmmmm......
-Chris 😀
found one for poobah.
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Eyes of a golden Buddha statue.
Look closely.
Two things.
Gold. Monatomics.
And the other thing, it relates to the specific aspect I mentioned about the Salvia Divinorum. The spiral.
For those who are curious.
For the uninitiated, it's like taking a 5 year old and putting them suddenly..at the wheel of big car, doing 140 mph on a superhighway. Whoa! Not much control there. Results are...unpredictable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum
"Moderate doses appear trance-like. Time distortion and open-eye visuals become increasingly apparent. Fractal patterns and geometric shapes may be noticeable with eyes open, and can be confusing. Many people experience sensations of falling, similar to, but more pronounced than what is occasionally felt at the onset of sleep. The user may experience fully formed visions of other places, people, and events, especially with eyes closed.
At high doses the effects become more powerful and may additionally include reports of perceptions of dimensional distortion, vertigo, feelings of intense exhilaration and/or panic, sensations of wind or physical pressure, hearing voices, flanging of sound, significant open and closed-eye visuals, loss of speech, life changing experiences, dissociation and various hallucinations of experiencing alternate realities, out-of-body experiences, visiting parallel universes, dissolution of one's ego, as well as imagined contact with beings or entities. Many users report twisting or splitting feelings. Ordinary objects appear to morph into powerful visually animated creatures. It is also not unusual that, while experiencing the effects, a person will not remember that they have taken Salvia, which can cause the user to panic. A strong feeling of déjà vu is commonly reported as an effect of large doses of Salvia"
Now, if that ain't Buddhist (in aim and understanding of realities), I don't know what is.
NSCL
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University.
uhmmm....... hhhmmm. Food for thought.
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University.
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uhmmm....... hhhmmm. Food for thought.
Look closely at where the truck went off the road on the right, in the first picture..then scroll down.
http://forums.thecarlounge.net/zerothread?id=3009137&page=1
ps. I don't smoke anymore, it's a New Years tradition to have one. Yes, I can pick it up and walk away like that. Call it a test of will.
http://forums.thecarlounge.net/zerothread?id=3009137&page=1
ps. I don't smoke anymore, it's a New Years tradition to have one. Yes, I can pick it up and walk away like that. Call it a test of will.
The anticipation of dark matter, planetary systems, the near infinite characteristic of the nature of the universe, action at a distance, string theory, and chaos theory.... all 400 years ahead of modern times.
Who says that modern man has the most correct and and most 'modern' and advanced understanding of the universe, reality itself, and 'all that is'?
Who would, after such knowledge, things (after an impartial and open minded search) and people of the past, who count in the near thousands - who is to say that we are the sole purveyors and masters of 'reality'?
Antiquity can teach us much.
Burned at the stake, by the church, in the year 1600.
Giordano Bruno
"I fought, and that's a lot. I thought I could win ... but nature and luck curbed my endeavour. But it's already something that I took up the struggle, because I see that victory is in the hands of Fate. In me was what was possible and what no future century will be able to deny to me: what a winner could give from his own; that I did not fear death, that I did not submit, my face firm, to anyone of my breed; that I preferred courageous death to pavid life."
Who says that modern man has the most correct and and most 'modern' and advanced understanding of the universe, reality itself, and 'all that is'?
Who would, after such knowledge, things (after an impartial and open minded search) and people of the past, who count in the near thousands - who is to say that we are the sole purveyors and masters of 'reality'?
Antiquity can teach us much.
Burned at the stake, by the church, in the year 1600.
Giordano Bruno
"I fought, and that's a lot. I thought I could win ... but nature and luck curbed my endeavour. But it's already something that I took up the struggle, because I see that victory is in the hands of Fate. In me was what was possible and what no future century will be able to deny to me: what a winner could give from his own; that I did not fear death, that I did not submit, my face firm, to anyone of my breed; that I preferred courageous death to pavid life."
Funny how with all that, they missed the "speed of light is the same for all observers" thing. So simple, fundamental, and necessary for understanding the other stuff, yet those genii who were a thousand years ahead of their time just... missed it.
OK. For once, I'll do what you seem to be wanting me to do.
Attack, as you and others have done. I've no idea what the real reason is behind such things. Balanced attitude and way, and all that.
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So what SY. Nice of you to drop in and slam a guy who's been dead for over 400 years.
Is there a reason for your seeming hatred and denigration of dead people? People who risked their lives (and some even lost them) all for attempts at the betterment of mankind?
If so, you've got alot to answer for.
If there is one thing that history teaches a person, it is that the things we believe in today, will either seen as foolish in the future, or some components of them will be deemed incorrect in the future.
Picking on dead guys is a rather poor substitute for an open mind.
Attack, as you and others have done. I've no idea what the real reason is behind such things. Balanced attitude and way, and all that.
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So what SY. Nice of you to drop in and slam a guy who's been dead for over 400 years.
Is there a reason for your seeming hatred and denigration of dead people? People who risked their lives (and some even lost them) all for attempts at the betterment of mankind?
If so, you've got alot to answer for.
If there is one thing that history teaches a person, it is that the things we believe in today, will either seen as foolish in the future, or some components of them will be deemed incorrect in the future.
Picking on dead guys is a rather poor substitute for an open mind.