New Facts about Human Sexuality
There are several new conclusions about human sexuality.
Bisexuality is a stable pattern of attraction to both sexes. It is not a transitional phase from heterosexuality to lesbian identification. It is neither an experimental phase for heterosexuals. In 2008, Lisa M. Diamond presented these results of a 10-year long study in Utah University assessing 70 women identified as lesbian, bisexual, or sexually unlabeled.
Arousal precedes desire. A study by Ellen Laan of the University of Amsterdam in 2004 about the physical response to sexual images concluded that we have a physical response to sexual visuals before the mind engages with them.
Men look more into the eyes during sexual situations than women. An Emory University study concluded when watching sexually explicit images, men looked more into the eyes of the subjects than women did. Also, both men and women fastly passed through the genital photos. The two brains responded differently as well. Men had more wave activity in the Amygdala than women.
Unwealthy men are sexually attracted to fat white women. Rich men are attracted to thin dark women. The international body project, a survey of 7,434 people worldwide concluded men in lower socioeconomic societies are more attracted to fat and white women. While in higher socioeconomic societies thinner and darker women were considered more attractive. Probably, because being in more impoverished societies fat is regarded as a sign of wealth and being well fed.
Sex drive is influenced by culture, and women sex drive decrease when in a long relationship. A meta-analysis by the University of Wisconsin, Madison concluded the significant difference in sex drive between men and women is profoundly influenced by culture. Women sex drive decreases after being in long relationships but not because of monogamy.
In summary, recent studies showed that bisexuality is a pattern, not an experimental or a transitional phase. Arousal precedes desire. Men make more eye contact with the subject of arousal than women. Women have less desire after being in a relationship for a long time. Socioeconomic status affects the criteria of physical attraction.
Reference:
Gross, J. (2014). 5 studies that offer fascinating conclusions about human sexuality.
Retrieved fromhttps://blog.ted.com/6-studies-that-offer-fascinating-conclusions-about-human-sexuality/
Friday, July 13, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
100 Questions to God
100 Questions to God
I have been an excellent fundamental Christian.
For 50 years, I firmly believed in one god, one son of God, one Holy Spirit and somehow, the 3 of them are one god too!
I believed, 2000 years ago, God came to earth and sacrificed himself to himself in the form of his son after impregnating a 12-year-old human virgin who remained a virgin even after she gave him a natural birth. God let himself be tortured and die on the cross to save me from a mortal sin, which I have not committed but, I was born with, because my ancestor Adam ate forbidden fruit, 6000 years ago
I believed I was born in sin and without Jesus; I am going to hell for the rest of eternity even if I have done nothing.
I believed the one Church of Jesus Christ is the only way to my eternal life of happiness.
I believed in the literal and symbolic interpretation of the bible’s old and new testaments.
I believed the physically impossible events in the bible are just ordinary miracles from God to impress people.
I believed in the revelations, the prophecies, and the rapture.
I believed my thoughts, desires, imaginations, and even dreams are sinful and they justify burning in hell.
I believed slavery started when Noah cursed Canaan the son of his son Ham because Ham saw the nakedness of his father Noah and bragged about it when Noah got drunk and naked. That is how Ham's sons, generation after generation justifiably became black slaves. Therefore, I never go to my father’s room after he drinks wine.
I believed slavery was a standard form of life as God explained how to do it in the bible.
I believed Homosexuality is a demonic sinful choice and people will burn in hell forever for committing it like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
I believed all the contradictions and dilemmas in the Bible are because of our ignorance.
I believed science contradicts the Bible because science has not advanced enough.
I believed the more we advance, the more we will understand the great wisdom and knowledge in the bible.
I had firm faith, but I was always looking for evidence.
I had many questions and the answers I received did not convince me but stopped me from asking, however, I continued to believe.
I sought knowledge and I explored religions, but the more I learned, the more beliefs did not make sense. So, I wrote this letter to god to ask him 100 questions and I am still waiting for him to answer.
Dear God!
1-Why do you work in "mysterious ways" and confuse people? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair. Isn't it much better if you are clear and straightforward?
2-Why do you punish sinners if you have created them this way? Did you create sinners so you would punish them? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair.
3-Why do you judge us when we fail if you know everything including that we would fail? This does not make sense and sounds unfair.
4-Why do you lead us to temptations if you know we will not resist? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair.
5-Why do you teach us hard lessons in life if you know we will not learn? and by the time we learn, we are too old and die! This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel.
6-Why do you punish us for eternity when we don't learn if you knew we couldn’t learn? This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel.
7-Why do you create us sick with sin, order us to cure and punish us when we can't? This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel.
8-Why do you let bad things happen if you knew it would happen? This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel if you let bad things happen, or incompetence if you can't stop them from happening.
9-Why do you let bad things happen to good people? This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel. Wouldn't it be nicer if you protect the innocent?
10-Why do you claim we have free choice if you already decided what we will choose? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair.
11-Why do you claim that we have “free will”? Nevertheless, you are going to burn us in hell if our will is different from yours. This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair.
12- In the Old Testament, why did you revenge and destroy everything you’ve created instead of forgiving? This doesn't make sense and sounds merciless and cruel.
13-Why did you have uncontrollable anger in the Old Testament? This doesn't make sense, sounds immature, and lacks wisdom.
14-Why do you demand blood and sacrifice? This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel.
15-Why do you never forgive unless killing happens? This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel.
16-Why did you sacrifice your own son? Haven’t you forbidden people from sacrificing sons because it is barbaric and inhuman? This is confusing, doesn't make sense, and sounds cruel and hypocritical
17-Why do you call it salvation and forgiveness if the price has been already paid in blood? This doesn't make sense and sounds confusing.
WWII German Concentration camp prisoners, the torture and genocide of 6 million Jews
Why didn’t God stop the Holocaust, the genocide and rape of the Christian Armenians, the genocide in Rwanda, the mass rape and murder in Nigeria, the terrorists in 9/11, the Tsunami in South Asia, the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, ISIS from killing raping and bombing his churches in the Middle East, the priests from raping innocent children in the Catholic churches, the child molesters from kidnapping, raping torturing and killing innocent children, or the burning of his Notre Dame church in Paris? Did you let it happen? didn’t you want to stop it? couldn’t you stop it? didn't you care? wasn’t you paying attention? are you cruel? or because you are imaginary and don’t exist?!
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The Turks displaced and slaughtered 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1918
18-Why would you punish our ancestor (Adam) by burning in hell for eternity, for just eating a fruit? Isn’t it a grave punishment for such a silly sin? Why did you change your mind 4000 years later and sacrifice your son instead? Isn’t it still a high price to pay for a silly sin? This doesn't make sense.
19-Why do you want us to believe in you but, make yourself invisible? This doesn't make sense and is tricky.
20-Why don’t you make it simple and just show yourself? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair.
21-Why do you want us to believe in you based on no evidence? This doesn't make sense and sounds irrational.
22-Why didn't you leave archeological evidence of the great flood or the exodus from Egypt? This doesn't make sense and sounds mythical.
23-Why do you show yourself only to one person at a time when he is alone, in a dream, in a cave, or on a mountain hearing voices? This doesn't make sense and sounds weird. Aren’t hearing voices a form of hallucination and believing them a form of delusion or schizophrenia? Aren't dreams unaccountable?
24-Why will you burn gay people in hell for eternity if you claim you love them? Will you love them only when they stop being homosexual?! This doesn't make sense and sounds contradictory.
25-Why do you want to burn gay people in hell for eternity if you created them this way? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair and cruel.
26-Why do you let people suffer if you claim you love them? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair. It is cruel if let them suffer on purpose. It is incompetence if you can't help them.
27-Why do you let millions of innocent babies die every year, and let their parents suffer in agony for no good reason? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair. It is very cruel if you let their parents suffer on purpose. It is incompetence if you can't save them.
28-Why do you burn unbaptized babies in hell for eternity? What have they done to you? This doesn't make sense, it sounds unfair and cruel.
29-Why are you jealous of the other gods like the Pharaohs, Usher, and Marduk? This doesn't make sense and sounds immature or insecure.
30-Why are you different from place to place on earth?
This doesn't make sense aren't you the same everywhere?
31-Why are you different from time to time in history?
This doesn't make sense, aren't you the same all the time?
32-Why do you mean different things to different people?
This doesn't make sense, Aren't you the same for everyone? This sounds like your character depends on people's interpretations and knowledge.
33-Why do the people of the same faith disagree about you? Why are the Christians divided and disagree about you? Why are the Muslims divided and disagree about you? Why are the Jews divided and disagree about you? This doesn't make sense, aren't you the same, at least, for people of the same faith?
34-Why are you completely different and opposite for Muslims from Christians? This doesn't make sense, aren't you the same for everyone who believes in you?
35-Why do you always need people to explain you to other people? This doesn't make sense. Are you unable to explain yourself?
37-Why do you let Muslim terrorists murder the innocent in your name? This doesn't make sense. It is cruel if you let them and incompetence if you can't stop them.
38-Why do you need people to worship you if you are great? This doesn't make sense and sounds needy.
38-Why do you need people to worship you if you are great? This doesn't make sense and sounds needy.
39-In the 10 commandments, why did you care about not making images of yourself even before you cared about murder? What is more important, Murder, or making images of you? This doesn't make sense and sounds like your priorities are not in order.
40-Why do you order us not to murder, but you kill millions by disease and natural disasters? This doesn't make sense and sounds contradictory and confusing.
41-Why don't you declare yourself to all people? This doesn't make sense and sounds tricky.
42-Why did you wait to declare yourself only in the first century? This doesn't make any sense.
43- Why didn't you declare yourself thousands of years earlier? This does not make any sense.
44- Why did you declare yourself to only a few illiterate Middle Easterners in the desert? Didn’t you want the whole world to know you? This doesn't make any sense.
45-Why didn't you directly declare yourself to the Chinese? They had the oldest civilization, the highest population on earth, and they also knew how to write and document? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair or racist against Asians.
46-Why don't almost half the population on earth know you? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair.
47-Why do you burn the people who never heard of you in hell for eternity? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair and cruel.
48-Why did you wait 13.7 billion years to send your book of Quran according to Islam to one specific person in a cave? This doesn't make any sense.
49-Why did you order the Jews to cut the tips of their penises? Why did you create men with foreskin then order them to cut them off? This doesn't make sense and sounds weird.
50-Why didn't you condemn Lot for trying to give his daughters to be raped? This doesn't make sense and sounds strange.
51-Why didn't you condemn Lot's daughters for having sex with their father? This doesn't make sense and sounds weird.
52-Why did you wrestle with Jacob all night, try to kill him, and injure his sciatica? This doesn't make any sense.
53-Why did you attack Moses and try to kill him too?
This doesn't make any sense too.
54-Why did you let go of Moses when his wife but the foreskin blood of his son's penis on Moses' feet? This doesn't make any sense and sounds very weird too.
55-Why did you allow horrible slavery for thousands of years? This doesn't make any sense, it sounds cruel and racist, especially against black people.
56-Why did you slaughter the Canaanites and the Amalekites, men, women, and children by the hands of your people in your name? This doesn't make sense and sounds like a brutal genocide.
57-Why did you save the virgin women of the Canaanites and the Amalekites to be taken as slaves? This doesn't make sense and sounds like human trafficking, sex slavery, and rape.
58-Why would you burn in hell people who have sex outside marriage especially if you created them with this strong physiological need? They don't hurt anyone! Isn't it better than raping the Canaanite virgins? This doesn't make sense and sounds like an unnecessary deprivation.
59-Why do you want to burn people who masturbate in hell? especially if you created them with this natural need? Isn't it better than raping the Canaanite virgins? This doesn't make sense and sounds unnatural and perverted
60-Why do you care how we speak, what we eat, or what we do especially, while naked? This doesn't make sense and sounds very nosey, suffocating, and perverted too.
61-Why did you harden the Pharaoh's heart on purpose so you can torture the poor Egyptians with more plagues? What was more important to you, to let your people go or to abuse the Egyptians? This doesn't make sense and sounds sadistic and cruel.
62-Why did you murder the innocent children of Egypt? What have they done to you? This doesn't make sense and sounds very cruel.
63-Why do you punish innocent children for their parents' sins? This doesn't make sense and sounds unfair and very cruel.
64-In Genesis, why did you tell people the earth is a flat disc in the center of a dome universe, and the sun and the stars go around it? Why did you let them discover the truth 6000 years later and suspect you? This doesn't make sense and sounds ignorant.
65-Why didn't you tell people they have evolved from primates so when they find out the truth, they still believe in you? This doesn't make sense and sounds ignorant.
66-Why did you terrify people for thousands of years and make them believe you have flooded and drowned their ancestors alive on purpose? Aren't floods predictable natural disasters from ice melting on the top of the mountains into the rivers? or from too much rain and hurricanes. This doesn't make sense and sounds like a very cruel lie.
67-Why did you terrify people for thousands of years and made them believe you burned the people of Sodom and Gomorrah alive on purpose? Aren't meteors predictable natural disasters? This doesn't make sense and sounds like a cruel lie.
68-Why did you terrify people for thousands of years and made them believe Earthquakes are a punishment from you? Aren't earthquakes predictable natural disasters from the earth's crusts sliding on each other? This doesn't make sense and sounds like a cruel lie.
69-If you created bacteria, why didn't you tell people about bacteria to avoid diseases and plagues? This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel, ignorant, or incompetent.
70-Why didn't you tell people that convulsing and frothing at the mouth is just Epilepsy, not demon position and it requires sedatives or marijuana? Why did you let innocent people suffer pain, fear, and unnecessary guilt from what they didn’t know for thousands of years? This doesn't make sense and sounds ignorant or cruel.
71-Why didn't you tell people that hearing voices and hallucinations could be caused by schizophrenia, mental disease, fevers, infections, or eating mushrooms, and not by demon possession? This doesn't make sense and sounds ignorant and cruel.
72-Why did you let people kill thousands trying to cast out demons? This doesn't make sense and sounds ignorant and cruel.
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73-Why didn't you tell people witchcraft is not real? Why did you let them burn thousands of innocents alive for hundreds of years in your name? This doesn't make sense and sounds cruel.
I have heard different answers to many different questions repeatedly, from different people and theologians of different faiths for years. None of it made any sense to me! I thought they do not know God well enough.
So, I have studied religions and prayed for 50 years to get some answers, but God has not replied yet.
Here are some of the most common bizarre statements in defense of God:
*"God knows everything, the past, the present, and the future too, but, when it comes to our free will and choices, he makes himself not know."!!!
74- So God knows and doesn't know at the same time? What a fantastic contradiction in one sentence?
*"God hurts us because he loves us."!!
75- Isn't this just a pure sadistic and contradictory concept? Is God a sadist and he shows love by inflicting pain on us? Are we supposed to accept it and enjoy it too like masochists? Please don't love me that way! If this were a relationship between humans, it would have been a sick love relationship!
*"God waited thousands of years until we are ready so he can tell us about himself."
76- Isn't it unjust for billions of our ancestors who died before us? Were Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob not worthy? This is just weird, senseless, and sounds like an arrogant concept!
*"There is also a place for the people who died before he declared himself to us."
77- Why do they get to be so unlucky and unfortunate?
78- Why do we get to be equal if we have different sets of good and bad?
*"God did not tell the people who represented him now or in the past thousands of yours to persecute, hurt, burn, or kill others in his name. It was their misunderstanding."
79- Is god merely that cruel to let them wrongly do it in his name? Or,
80- Is god that incompetent for not stopping them?
*"The people who represented God in the past got him wrong, but we got it right now."
81- Is god that incompetent to let people misrepresent him for thousands of years
*"People who represented God in the past made a mistake."
82- Is God that incompetent to let stupid people incorrectly misrepresent him for thousands of years?
*"All the other religions got God wrong, but we got him right."
83- Isn't this so arrogant, inconsiderate of the other billions in this world? This could be even a delusional statement.
84- Isn't its incompetence of God to let billions of people know him the wrong way?
*"God show himself for the chosen few believers only”
85- Why should I even try if I was not chosen? Is god biased for just a few people of his choice?
*“You only have to believe”
86- Do you mean God is only for the people who believe and do not think or question?
87- Is God biased against smart people
*"God must give you the gift of dogma to understand him."
88- Why doesn't he give everyone the gift especially those who are trying to understand? Is God biased?
*"You can't use your brain to understand or believe in God. Just have faith and believe. Use your heart."
89- Does it mean God is only for the no-brainers? Is God biased against brainers and thinkers?
*"You can't question God."
90- Why not? We only learn when we question things.
91- Mustn’t everyone with a brain question everything?
*"God created man in His likeness and image. God has human characters like anger, jealousy, regret, and he changes his mind too. That is why we look like him, and we act like him too."
First, 92- Are people who control their anger, jealousy, and mind better than God?
Second, 93- Shouldn't he at least be better than us?
Third, 94- Why does he punish us for being just like him, angry, jealous, destructive, and all those flawed characters that we inherited from him?
Lastly, if we look like him,
95- Why does Jesus look Caucasian for the whites, black for the Africans, Indian for the Indians, Ethiopian for the Ethiopians, Coptic for the Egyptians, and Asian for the Asians, and so on?
96- Did 'God create man in his image and likes' or did man create God in his image and likes? Is God man-made?
*“I don’t know.”
97- Why do you believe in what you don't know?
98- Why are you willing to die for what you don't know?!
99- Why are some people are killing others for what they don't know?!
100- If we don’t know, did we get God wrong? Or did everyone in the world get God wrong?
Sorry God,
Almost all your representatives and religions made you not make sense. They made you sound like a cruel, unfair, sadistic, immature, jealous, confusing, tricky, unforgiving, merciless, incompetent, sexist, racist, genocidal, pro-slavery, pro-rape, pro-human sacrifice and trafficking, bloodshed loving, destructive, ignorant, weird, nosey, needy, controlling, suffocating, angry, liar, pervert, and a powerful deity who changes his mind frequently and wants to burn us in hell for many reasons but, somehow loves us! Sorry, I prefer not to be loved by someone who has these horrible characters because this would sound like an unhealthy relationship.
Alphabetic order, 1st row: Baha'i, Buddhism, Cao Dai, Christianity 2nd row: Druidism, Eckankar, Hinduism, Islam 3rd row: Jainism, Judaism, Raelism, Satanism/Second degree Wicca 4th row: Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Tenrikyo 5th row, Thelema, Unitarian Universalism, Wicca, Zoroastrianism
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Thursday, March 15, 2018
When Stephen Hawking Meets God!
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail," "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
Stephen Hawking
In response to Stephen Hawking's death, Franklin Graham posted God created Hawking's brain and the amazing universe Hawking studied. Computers are designed by humans but God created the brain, and it is more complicated and advanced than computers. Some people are mocking Hawking's death for he met the God whom he did not believe in?!
Anyone who has a little knowledge of science and physics would be sad to lose one of the very few geniuses of the history of humanity. Hawking changed the understanding of astrophysics and how the universe works by using the evidence of mathematical formula. He is as great as Einstein, Newton, and Laplace if not even more exceptional. By his loss, science and humanity have lost a great deal. It shocks me and deeply saddens me to find that some people are happy to lose such a genius. I guess it only reflects the amount of ignorance in this world.
Dear Franklin,
Be prepared to be disappointed because scientists are making computers that will exceed the human brain. According to you, this makes humans greater than your god.
Franklin Graham is using the god of the gaps argument.
Stephen Hawking
In response to Stephen Hawking's death, Franklin Graham posted God created Hawking's brain and the amazing universe Hawking studied. Computers are designed by humans but God created the brain, and it is more complicated and advanced than computers. Some people are mocking Hawking's death for he met the God whom he did not believe in?!
Anyone who has a little knowledge of science and physics would be sad to lose one of the very few geniuses of the history of humanity. Hawking changed the understanding of astrophysics and how the universe works by using the evidence of mathematical formula. He is as great as Einstein, Newton, and Laplace if not even more exceptional. By his loss, science and humanity have lost a great deal. It shocks me and deeply saddens me to find that some people are happy to lose such a genius. I guess it only reflects the amount of ignorance in this world.
Dear Franklin,
Be prepared to be disappointed because scientists are making computers that will exceed the human brain. According to you, this makes humans greater than your god.
Franklin Graham is using the god of the gaps argument.
Whatever we don't know or understand must be the god. This keeps going all over history until we discover how things work.
The lightning and thunder were made by Zeus in Greek mythology. Now we understood the positive and negative charges in the clouds.
God brought floods to punish people in Genesis. Now, we understood how the weather works, and we can predict it too.
God rains fire from the sky to burn the evil people of Sadum and Gamora alive.
Now, we understood how volcanos and meteors work, and we can predict them too.
Now, we understood how volcanos and meteors work, and we can predict them too.
God makes earthquakes to punish people at the end of the world in Mathew and Revelation.
Now, we understood earthquakes happened when the earth crusts slid on each other, and we can even predict them too.
Now, we understood earthquakes happened when the earth crusts slid on each other, and we can even predict them too.
God made the sun, and the stars rotate around the earth in Genesis. Galileo discovered it is the opposite.
Isac Newton claimed God intervenes to make the planets rotate around the sun when he could not explain the planets' rotation using his gravity laws.
Simon Laplace was able to explain it with mathematics and not god.
Simon Laplace was able to explain it with mathematics and not god.
God is the Blackhole until we understood the black hole.
God is the dark matter because we haven't found it yet.
God created Hawking's brain, Graham claims, because we haven't understood the complexity of the genius human mind yet.
Humans already designed computers superseding the human brain in many aspects.
What will Graham say when humans design computers more complex and superseding the human brain? It is happening soon based on the crazy advance of technology today.
Humans already designed computers superseding the human brain in many aspects.
What will Graham say when humans design computers more complex and superseding the human brain? It is happening soon based on the crazy advance of technology today.
Graham claims that God created the universe Hawkings has been studying which is very contradictory and only means Graham doesn't know anything about science, physics, or astrology.
Hawkings's universe is 13.7 billion years and started with a big bang, has black holes, matter-antimatter, dark matter, dark energy, a changeable spacetime continuum, gravity, electromagnetic forces, quantum physics and mechanics, photons, Bozons, and so many many other complexes but mathematically proven elements. Hawkin's earth is a 4.5 billion years old, a nonsignificant speck in a small galaxy in a universe full of billions of galaxies. Each galaxy has billions of stars trillions of times more significant than the earth and each has many planets. Hawking's universe is proven by the 21st-century physics and mathematics.
Graham's universe is free from physics and made by God from dust air water and fire in 6 days, 6000 years ago and completely unknown how it was made. Graham's earth is at the center, and it's all about it. According to Genesis and Job, it is a flat disc hanging on pillars, covered by a dome in which the sun, moon, and the stars, rotated around it and one day the stars will fall on the earth. Graham universe is a simple observation and interpretations of unexplained phenomena by people from the bronze age who did not know anything about anything. All are written in a 2500-year-old book, free from science. This 2500-year-old source of knowledge is established on the principle of "blessed he who believed without seeing" i.e., to believe without evidence.
The truth is, An Average 5th grader today, probably knows about the universe, Volcanos, earthquakes, disease, germs, and life, more than Moses, Jesus, Muhamed, Budah, and the people who wrote the Torah, Bible, and Quran together.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Insurance Denied A $12,000 ER Visit Because The Appendix Was Not Ruptured
Insurance Denied A $12,000 ER Visit Because The Appendix Was Not Ruptured
This is a deeper problem with health care in America than it might appear.
It costs $12,000 to rule out appendicitis while it could be ruled out by a simple good history, a good physical exam, and maybe a $40 test if even needed. Everyone wants to go to the ER and get a CT scan because everyone is becoming his own doctor and believes he is a graduate of Google Medical School and knows better than all doctors!
The patients do not go to their doctor because he can't see them soon enough because he has no time because he or she is seeing 30 patients a day because insurances do not pay enough and demand more to save money. Insurance companies are not so smart because the patients end up going to the ER and it costs them $12,000 for an average visit instead of a 50 or $100 for the PCP. To make up for the added expense, insurance companies rais, the premiums for everyone and reduces coverage and doctors' pay and the cycle goes on until one day it will crash.
ER visits cost a fortune because no doctor has the balls to think and take responsibility for his own clinical judgment without the proof of a $10,000 test or an MRI because he or she is terrified of being sued. Our sue happy society screws physicians and sue for no good reasons, so physicians practice a brainless very defensive expensive medicine with unnecessary testing for everything which sky high the cost and screws up the insurance companies. Since insurance companies do not lose, they increase the rates, deny hospital payments, reduce the coverage and reduce the doctors' pay to keep their profit high. Basically, they screw everyone in the end.
This is a deeper problem with health care in America than it might appear.
It costs $12,000 to rule out appendicitis while it could be ruled out by a simple good history, a good physical exam, and maybe a $40 test if even needed. Everyone wants to go to the ER and get a CT scan because everyone is becoming his own doctor and believes he is a graduate of Google Medical School and knows better than all doctors!
The patients do not go to their doctor because he can't see them soon enough because he has no time because he or she is seeing 30 patients a day because insurances do not pay enough and demand more to save money. Insurance companies are not so smart because the patients end up going to the ER and it costs them $12,000 for an average visit instead of a 50 or $100 for the PCP. To make up for the added expense, insurance companies rais, the premiums for everyone and reduces coverage and doctors' pay and the cycle goes on until one day it will crash.
ER visits cost a fortune because no doctor has the balls to think and take responsibility for his own clinical judgment without the proof of a $10,000 test or an MRI because he or she is terrified of being sued. Our sue happy society screws physicians and sue for no good reasons, so physicians practice a brainless very defensive expensive medicine with unnecessary testing for everything which sky high the cost and screws up the insurance companies. Since insurance companies do not lose, they increase the rates, deny hospital payments, reduce the coverage and reduce the doctors' pay to keep their profit high. Basically, they screw everyone in the end.
Monday, January 29, 2018
Egyptian Christian Orthodox Church Wedding
Egyptian Christian Orthodox Church Wedding
Weddings are the most common social events in which people express their happiness by singing and dancing regardless of ethnicity, language, or culture. Wedding traditions and customs greatly vary between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. We have attended several Middle-Eastern Christian Orthodox weddings which introduced me to new types of music and dances. An Orthodox wedding is considered a ceremony where two people becoming one in the marriage that is why chanting and praying is essential. On the other hand, the reception celebration music and singing were utterly different from the church.
Church songs and musical instruments vary from a culture to another. The Egyptian Orthodox Church singing is very traditional and did not change since established. The church has been chanting the same lyrics and tunes using the same musical instruments for 2,000 years. The performer who is the priest is considered a holy man with spiritual authority. People loved and respected his performance regardless of his musical talent. They believe his singing is definitely a blessing in their life. The Copts interaction with the Church songs is definitely on a different spiritual level from a concert audience.
Weddings are the most common social events in which people express their happiness by singing and dancing regardless of ethnicity, language, or culture. Wedding traditions and customs greatly vary between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. We have attended several Middle-Eastern Christian Orthodox weddings which introduced me to new types of music and dances. An Orthodox wedding is considered a ceremony where two people becoming one in the marriage that is why chanting and praying is essential. On the other hand, the reception celebration music and singing were utterly different from the church.
In an Egyptian Christian Orthodox wedding, all the guests wore formal outfits. The bride wore a white wedding dress and veil to emphasize purity. The groom wore a black tuxedo. The wedding ceremony started in the Orthodox Church, and it involved ritual religious singing and praying mainly conducted by the priest and deacons. Of course, dancing is not appropriate in the Orthodox Church. Crowning of the bride and groom was beautiful and gave a sense of being special like a king and a queen. The prayers spoke of blessings, harmony, love, obedience, and sacrifice. The praying was vocal by off tune and unnecessarily good sounding voices of the priest and the deacons who were all males.
The praying in the Orthodox Church is more important than good sounding music or voices. The guests often replied to the priest and the deacons’ singing by a similar off tune, mixed up notes, and not really pleasant to the ears voices. The song has a slow, monotonous chanting character. It was precisely similar to the chanting of the Tibetan monks in their temples. The Orthodox Church did not have music, there was no orogen, harp, violin, or piano. One deacon used a metal triangle and a metal stick which produced a small bell-like sound. Another deacon used a handheld larger size Talam or small Cymbal, and it created a sound of small splash Cymbal. The church wedding ceremony lasted more than one hour, and I was delighted it was finally over. The bride and the groom did not say a word during the entire service.
The praying in the Orthodox Church is more important than good sounding music or voices. The guests often replied to the priest and the deacons’ singing by a similar off tune, mixed up notes, and not really pleasant to the ears voices. The song has a slow, monotonous chanting character. It was precisely similar to the chanting of the Tibetan monks in their temples. The Orthodox Church did not have music, there was no orogen, harp, violin, or piano. One deacon used a metal triangle and a metal stick which produced a small bell-like sound. Another deacon used a handheld larger size Talam or small Cymbal, and it created a sound of small splash Cymbal. The church wedding ceremony lasted more than one hour, and I was delighted it was finally over. The bride and the groom did not say a word during the entire service.
Church songs and musical instruments vary from a culture to another. The Egyptian Orthodox Church singing is very traditional and did not change since established. The church has been chanting the same lyrics and tunes using the same musical instruments for 2,000 years. The performer who is the priest is considered a holy man with spiritual authority. People loved and respected his performance regardless of his musical talent. They believe his singing is definitely a blessing in their life. The Copts interaction with the Church songs is definitely on a different spiritual level from a concert audience.
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Bad Science
Bad science is biased science.
It supports the wrong facts in which most people believe. The scientific method of thinking is unbiased, has no preset beliefs, and it questions everything. We should not accept any result as a fact unless enough trials and observation have proved it. A statistically significant observation must have a pie value or false positive consideration of less than 0.05. Old incomplete science is considered "Bad science." For hundreds if not thousands of years most people believed the earth was flat because that was the popular science at the time.
There are many examples of bad science. In the past, many scientists had altered their observation under the influence of their beliefs whether it was religious or pre-set ideas. The great Isaac Newton described the gravity laws and how the planets orbit the sun by fundamental mathematical equations. However, when he could not calculate how the planets orbit the sun in relationship to the sun’s and each other’s gravity as well, he went back to the oldest trick in the book and claimed a divine power intervenes now and then to correct his calculations. This was the believed science of gravity until 100 years later when Pierre Simon Laplace, the French mathematician was able to decipher the mysterious problem and solved the formula without the need for divine intervention.
Einstein's calculations proved the universe was expanding, but he did not believe it because it was a bizarre idea. So Einstein added a constant to alter the equation to make common sense, even though that common sense was wrong. Hubble proved the universe is expanding in the 1920s. Einstein also wholly rejected quantum physics and mechanics because it sounded unreasonable silly until it was confirmed a fact later.
After the dark ages, Europe adopted the scientific method of research hence the industrial and technological revolution began. For hundreds of years, the white race from Europe became more advanced, colonized the rest of the world, and ruled over the other races. The White race became superior to other races for a few hundred years. When the Caucasians explored the world, they found other races to be less advanced and living a more primitive life compared to Europe. This was wrongly perceived as being less intelligent, less civilized, or closer to animals. Also, the belief of being superior justified invading and colonizing those countries as an excuse to improve them. The whites considered people of the colonized countries savages, like the Native Americans, African Blacks and Asians which justified slavery, cruelty, and ill-treatment of the other races.
Years back, many of what called scientists or doctors took measurements and conducted researches to compare intelligence in different races. Unfortunately, the purpose of the measures was to prove the inferiority of the black race compared to the white, not to accurately observe if there is a real difference. Some scientists believed the size of the brain is indicative of intelligence. When those doctors found the brain size in whites is identical to blacks, they tried to compare specific centers within the brain to prove whites have larger brain area responsible for intelligence than in blacks. The scientists consciously or subconsciously under measured the dimensions of the Black samples compared to the white because their mindset was already biased. When the experiment was repeated without knowing which sample was white and which was black beforehand, the results were utterly inconclusive. When the other races get their fair share of education and elevated socioeconomic status, they prove to be as smart as or even smarter than whites.
At the beginning of the last century, Whites believed Asians and Blacks are less intelligent than whites, and women are less intelligent than men. They could not have been more wrong! Most computer technology requiring intelligence is made by the Japanese, and the smart computers in NASA’s moon landing operation were Black Females.
A scientist should leave his faith or strong beliefs at the door before entering the lab to conduct an experiment. If not, he, or she will conduct biased science. Biased science is Bad Science.
It supports the wrong facts in which most people believe. The scientific method of thinking is unbiased, has no preset beliefs, and it questions everything. We should not accept any result as a fact unless enough trials and observation have proved it. A statistically significant observation must have a pie value or false positive consideration of less than 0.05. Old incomplete science is considered "Bad science." For hundreds if not thousands of years most people believed the earth was flat because that was the popular science at the time.
There are many examples of bad science. In the past, many scientists had altered their observation under the influence of their beliefs whether it was religious or pre-set ideas. The great Isaac Newton described the gravity laws and how the planets orbit the sun by fundamental mathematical equations. However, when he could not calculate how the planets orbit the sun in relationship to the sun’s and each other’s gravity as well, he went back to the oldest trick in the book and claimed a divine power intervenes now and then to correct his calculations. This was the believed science of gravity until 100 years later when Pierre Simon Laplace, the French mathematician was able to decipher the mysterious problem and solved the formula without the need for divine intervention.
Einstein's calculations proved the universe was expanding, but he did not believe it because it was a bizarre idea. So Einstein added a constant to alter the equation to make common sense, even though that common sense was wrong. Hubble proved the universe is expanding in the 1920s. Einstein also wholly rejected quantum physics and mechanics because it sounded unreasonable silly until it was confirmed a fact later.
After the dark ages, Europe adopted the scientific method of research hence the industrial and technological revolution began. For hundreds of years, the white race from Europe became more advanced, colonized the rest of the world, and ruled over the other races. The White race became superior to other races for a few hundred years. When the Caucasians explored the world, they found other races to be less advanced and living a more primitive life compared to Europe. This was wrongly perceived as being less intelligent, less civilized, or closer to animals. Also, the belief of being superior justified invading and colonizing those countries as an excuse to improve them. The whites considered people of the colonized countries savages, like the Native Americans, African Blacks and Asians which justified slavery, cruelty, and ill-treatment of the other races.
Years back, many of what called scientists or doctors took measurements and conducted researches to compare intelligence in different races. Unfortunately, the purpose of the measures was to prove the inferiority of the black race compared to the white, not to accurately observe if there is a real difference. Some scientists believed the size of the brain is indicative of intelligence. When those doctors found the brain size in whites is identical to blacks, they tried to compare specific centers within the brain to prove whites have larger brain area responsible for intelligence than in blacks. The scientists consciously or subconsciously under measured the dimensions of the Black samples compared to the white because their mindset was already biased. When the experiment was repeated without knowing which sample was white and which was black beforehand, the results were utterly inconclusive. When the other races get their fair share of education and elevated socioeconomic status, they prove to be as smart as or even smarter than whites.
At the beginning of the last century, Whites believed Asians and Blacks are less intelligent than whites, and women are less intelligent than men. They could not have been more wrong! Most computer technology requiring intelligence is made by the Japanese, and the smart computers in NASA’s moon landing operation were Black Females.
A scientist should leave his faith or strong beliefs at the door before entering the lab to conduct an experiment. If not, he, or she will conduct biased science. Biased science is Bad Science.
Saturday, January 6, 2018
The Genealogy of Jesus
The genealogy of Jesus in Mathew and Luke are written opposite to each other, descending vs. ascending, but they do not match. How to explain that?
According to Mathew, Jesus the son of Joseph, the son of *Jacob, the son of Matthan, *Eleazar, *Eliud, *Akim, *Zadok, *Azor, *Eliakim, *Abiud, *Zerubbabel, *Shealtiel, *Jeconiah, *Josiah, *Amon, *Manasseh, *Hezekiah,*Ahaz, *Jotham, *Uzziah, the son of *Jehoramin.....
However, According to Luke, Jesus the son of Joseph, the son of *Heli, the son of Matthat, *Levi, *Melki, *Jannai, *Joseph, *Mattathias, *Amos, *Nahum, *Esli, *Naggai, *Maath *Mattathias, *Semin, *Joseph, *Joda, *Joanan, *Rhesa, *Zerubbabel, *Shealtiel, *Neri, the son of *Meliki.......
Some apologists claim Mathew listed the paternal genealogy of Joseph, the husband of Mary. So, Mathew stated that Jacob has begotten Joseph. But, Luke recorded the maternal genealogy of Joseph to prove Jesus was the son of David on Mary's side too. Luke named Joseph the son of Heli while actually, Mary was the daughter of Heli, not Joseph.
However, there is no mention in the bible of Luke that the genealogy is according to Mary. Also, there was no mention of Mary was the daughter of Heli. Moreover, wasn't mary the daughter of Joachim and Anne, not Heli.
According to the story, Joachim, and Anne, the parents of Mary were virtuous and childless longing for a child. They were ashamed of being childless so, they promised to give their offspring to god if their prayer for a child was answered. The angel appeared and told Joachim about Mary's birth. According to the Catholic Church, Mary had an immaculate birth without sex like Jesus too. This story, Mathew, and Luke do not match each other about the geology of Jesus.
I guess they were trying to double prove Jesus descent is from David. But Something is confusing here.
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