Chaos and the Anti-Thread

**Emil El Zapato** · 23rd February 2019, 22:03

Amazon Prime 767 cargo plane crashed about 25-30 miles from me...3 crew members killed apparently. I think I had a book on that flight... shocking.

**Emil El Zapato** · 24th February 2019, 15:09

Here's one for you:

Last night I dreamed that I passed through a 'preserve' and was in total fear because I was not supposed to be there...hungry lions and wild vicious monkeys. I heard on the radio after I passed through that some people considered the area dangerous because no one really knew how the animals were going to react to people passing through. Some speculated that if the animals caught scent of the humans they might actually track them beyond the confines of the preserve and 'get them'. More than weird. I was traveling around the country looking for an unfaithful girlfriend and trying to reconcile our differences... f*ck me! No one had any respect for either one of us.

**Dreamtimer** · 24th February 2019, 15:44

It took me a minute to process that. You ordered a book which possibly crashed with the plane. Kinda crazy.

Slacking regulations and government shutdowns can quickly lead to that sort of stuff.

**Emil El Zapato** · 24th February 2019, 16:52

true, it is a mess...apparently the plane did a nosedive...terrifying...

**Dreamtimer** · 25th February 2019, 12:23

I'm flying very soon. Pray for me.

**Emil El Zapato** · 25th February 2019, 12:33

you'll be fine...you don't have a fear of flying like I do. I used to watch 'Why Planes Crash' with sweaty palms...for real...

you will be fine, DT...I'm injecting a little humor for you...

**Dreamtimer** · 26th February 2019, 23:21

Originally posted by palooka's revenge

the mind, where belief systems hang out, may not be racist... but... the brain? Information is percolating to the surface from the neurobiology gold mine fields that's barkin' a strong case that claim may not be so given test results indicating we may be hard wired to be racist.

Which means, if true, that wiring is in the DNA... which leads to the next question... where'd those imprints come from?

yes, there's a dif... but... the brain is only processing what it is receiving from its will and spirit... iow... in body, from our feelings... and... from our mind...

and right there, with those last words, might be a good place to start on the unpackin' I offered here... but i'm still soakin'...

meanwhile... from wiki....

this Sapolsky vid is an hour + 21. I thought it was x-lent and my, my, they are really getting on with it on brain function! it appears they are coming up with more and more ways to get the brain to tell on itself.

if u watch his vid DT, i'd be forever grateful in hearing your reaction on how it, when overlaid on how U now hold it, may have shifted your position as you so eloquently justified... or... perhaps fortified it...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnSY4L3V8s

"...In other words, If you shot up a bunch of buddhist monks with testosterone they would run amok doing random acts of violence."

Love it.

So it enhances or accentuates what a person would already do.

And oxytocin has a double-edge blade. How 'bout that?

The genes set us up, and at the same time the environment is turning them on and off.

Despite the great arguments against free will, I still operate as if I have it. That's the perception. And I keep in mind there is much I don't control.

edit to add:

I was fascinated by the part about pastoral culture and honor society. He notes its existence in the South.

Grudges are held long and retribution is fierce.

And I am aware that I may have affronted someone who is Southern.

I often wonder if the teachings of Christianity are enough to bring about forgiveness.

**Emil El Zapato** · 27th February 2019, 20:50

Those of you that know I'm adopted might be wondering about my new Avatar picture. My daughter and her mother did a DNA thing with Ancestry.com and came back with the results yesterday. My paternal grandparents apparently were from Sicily and that is a picture of them...Wild!

**Elen** · 28th February 2019, 08:18

Originally posted by NotAPretender

Those of you that know I'm adopted might be wondering about my new Avatar picture. My daughter and her mother did a DNA thing with Ancestry.com and came back with the results yesterday. My paternal grandparents apparently were from Sicily and that is a picture of them...Wild!

You look a little similar to your grandfather!

**Emil El Zapato** · 28th February 2019, 08:37

you've seen my picture I guess...I know, it's true...you have no idea how amazing this is to me...my daughter has some characteristics in common with the his wife...dare I say it, my grandmother.

**Dreamtimer** · 28th February 2019, 09:37

I haven't done that myself. I have a problem turning my DNA over to any business. But I'm fascinated by the idea of finding some blood relatives. That would indeed be very cool.

I was gonna ask if those were your grandparents.

**Emil El Zapato** · 28th February 2019, 10:04

Hi DT,

I would never have done it, I don't think...and my daughter didn't ask...it is her DNA I suppose...

That is what is interesting about it...If anyone else has done the DNA thing through Ancestry.com, it does do a match up...ranging from parent to 4th cousins and beyond. One thing that is noticeable is that some people prefer to remain 'private' and no information is reported on them.

I've seen a couple of other pictures of them...Honestly, just by the pictures, I got a sense of 'kindness' from the lady...I think I would have liked to know her.

**Elen** · 28th February 2019, 10:14

Originally posted by NotAPretender

Hi DT,

I would never have done it, I don't think...and my daughter didn't ask...it is her DNA I suppose...

That is what is interesting about it...If anyone else has done the DNA thing through Ancestry.com, it does do a match up...ranging from parent to 4th cousins and beyond. One thing that is noticeable is that some people prefer to remain 'private' and no information is reported on them.

I've seen a couple of other pictures of them...Honestly, just by the pictures, I got a sense of 'kindness' from the lady...I think I would have liked to know her.

There is kindness coming from both of them.

**Dreamtimer** · 28th February 2019, 12:32

I might do it the way Conan O'Brian did it, through his doctor. (of course, I'd need a doctor who does it) Conan talks about his freaky physiology first, then tells the DNA story, then brings it full circle. Very funny.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ayIJed2dn4

"It's a bad scene, man. A bad scene."

Jungle Fever!

**Emil El Zapato** · 28th February 2019, 13:12

lol...jungle fever...only an Irishman...

I was surprised that my daughter's DNA shows her as 35% Northern European...she looks like it (German/Irish) about as much as I do...One thing I don't like is the family life expectancy...

It ain't all that great... I was hoping for the 90's...uh uh...So now I've got to start rationalizing...lifestyle...My adoptive parent and stepparent both lived to mid-90's...