I'm going to watch this later today... Ever read a book called "The First Sex"? Came out in early 70's... About history waaaaay back, much further than we're led to believe. Goddess and matriarchy and so forth, which I'd read about before, but I've not heard or read before just how far back we're talking... I'm still reading it, just got it a few days ago. Pretty interesting! Anyway, I'll listen to this later on or tonight and then comment again... Thanks, Rob.
Relatively few women are left-handed. Thus, a majority are left-brained. Since they aren't into alphabet thinking, hormones must play a greater role than brain hemisphere dominance.
As a left-handed male, I'm less empathetic than most women. I rest my case.
I became aware of handedness in kindergarten. I was the only brat for whom our teacher had to spend time every morning teaching me how to tie my shoelaces. She was right-handed.
This lecture was presented in 2006. Has brain science changed significantly since then?
My experience (as a palm reader) is that left-handed boys tend to have a harder time being accepted by other boys, but do seem to be more likeable to women which may also reflect on the fact that there seems to be a statistically significant number of left-handed men who become president.
I wasn't good at sports, so was among the last to get picked by teams. I remember that girls are also last to be picked. I don't know if they still do that ritual in gym class nowadays.
I grew up to be a loner instead of president. Being born on February 3rd may have something to do with it?
We have at least two presidents born in February - George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I don't think there's a quota on how many presidents can be born in each month so you might still have a shot!
I was born in '67. My parents were not left-handed. One of my uncles might have been left-handed, but this recollection is vague.
I have heard of the fetal testosterone theory leading to more left-handers; if it was/is vaccination, then there are more of us than in the past. Or do you suggest there was a spike of left-handedness in the 60s that has now subsided?
I also read that children were forced to use their right hand because 'left' was associated with 'sinister'. So the lefty rate may have been artificially suppressed.
People keep remarking on our handedness, so maybe we should be proud (;
OK, my brother - born 1957 - was natively left handed, and they tried to "fix" him, inducing dyslexia. However, it gave him advantage in sport, it didn't matter where the glove or bat or ball was - he became a very skilled ambidextrous player. (and hard worker, with great emotional intelligence) (his ambidexterity improved my ambidexterity as well - you know, sibling rivalry)
I'd love to see a curve of left-handedness. Just 5 years later, they didn't try to "fix" me, and they didn't know about the dyslexia connection yet. So I reckon the curve ***started*** to rise then, and as the schedule increased, left handedness increased.
Not having nuns beat it out of you is a good chunk, being socially acceptable to be "sinister" would help. But I'm looking at the toxic angle at the moment.
Other toxins came into play like New Wheat, glyphosate, etc. But I'm looking at it more like "toxic damage" than genetics, to be sure. The testosterone - I've heard that too - can be blocked by any number of toxins (and maternal stress).
There were many left-handed people prior to vaccines which have only been used on a regular basis in the last hundred or so years. My sister preceded all the vaccines, was born in 1929 and is the only left-handed person in a family of 6 daughters and two parents. And I do believe many mammals, not just humans, also demonstrate a right or left dominance, but don't recall the statistics on it.
Very interesting lecture. Don't agree with everything he says and the timelines, especially those of the religions but I guess you can't upset everyone and expect them to remember the message.
Also what does it mean for Pharma (seemingly very masculine and definitely a war industry)
I think the issue is that when religion becomes part of the state, it gets "printed" and loses it's original meaning. Didn't Jesus say once that many will be fed by the milk of his words but a few will find the meat behind them?
I'm not atheist, but I feel like major religions focus on bullshit. That's why you didn't see many of them push back against the jabs, nor the illegal wars that have happened for decades. They're servants of the society, not of the soul.
Same for science, which started off as an honest curiosity and discovery, only to turn into a business that serves the majority who just follow the crowd.
Not necessarily. I think whoever the state was or is, I believe they always expect "science" to take a back seat to power. Let us not forget the 300 plus years of the Inquisition. how Galileo chose to recant his belief in Copernicus to save his life and how Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake because he wouldn't. I suspect the next step of the Amerikan gov't is to bring back the auto da fe for those of us refusing to believe in their faith-based sicence.
Saving these videos for later. Very interesting. I was in a chat group where they talked about language changing the way we think. Some tribes, for example, age super slowly because they don’t have words in their language that describe actions in the past sense. Everything is in the presence so time ends up working out differently for them. I might be butchering my presentation on the concept but it was something along those lines.
Ok. This is a very interesting lecture with some good points. However, there are many errors, but the one i cannot let pass, is about Athens and Sparta. Why was there an actual war over Helen of Troy? I submit, it was because, She was Spartan. She did have some freedoms, but was herself owned by the fascist state, and must breed with who the state decrees and no other. A bureaucracy owned her. Not even a human man, who could have human attachments and concern for her happiness. In Athens women had their own private faiths, one of the most popular was Dionysus....17 priestesses of such did have freedom, and all women worshipers of such, left their homes during the revels for days...traveling together. Most women had their own home businesses, weaving or making clothes. A household was her business. Often women had rooftop shrines to Adonis. Intimate shrines for rituals for Dionysus as seen in Pompey. Woman sphere of influence, of power is in their powerful nesting instinct, their home, where else should it be? A man seeks his power and recognition outside this arena. Where else should it be? together they are a powerful team, that can defeat adversity. Apart...they will be at odds with life.
Thanks for providing the impetus to revisit Schlain's The Alphab
et versus the Goddess. I also have the book The Chalice and the Blade by Rianne Eisler which builds on the work of Gimbutas, who Schlain references, but claims is missing the transformation of medium to the written word. Now that we are leaving the written word behind, another shift is taking place that is rewiring our brains once again. This is the digital age where meaning is conveyed using emojis. The digital age does not honor the body, male or female. It honors the self-curated persona, the biohacked identity and medicalized solution. And in this world, womanhood is degraded even further and becomes a costume, not a continuity. The trans phenomenon that is taking place as the medium becomes digital is about a civilizational reprogramming that conveniently erases boundaries bewteen sexes, undermines stable categories and clears the path for a fully technocratic neofeudalist prison, where flesh, memory, and meaning are being lost. Schlain notes that Christianity erased the female from Christianity, when the masculine word anima was chosen for the new testament over the feminine word for breath - making teh father the son and the holy ghost three dudes, no woman at all. Now with this new gender ideology, the entire meaning of a woman is been uprooted.
I'm going to watch this later today... Ever read a book called "The First Sex"? Came out in early 70's... About history waaaaay back, much further than we're led to believe. Goddess and matriarchy and so forth, which I'd read about before, but I've not heard or read before just how far back we're talking... I'm still reading it, just got it a few days ago. Pretty interesting! Anyway, I'll listen to this later on or tonight and then comment again... Thanks, Rob.
This reminds me of feminist book, "When God Was A Woman" by Merlin Stone.
Just read the summary and yes, very similar.
It's not that women ran everything but that women had a seat at the table.
It reminds me of the wildling people of game of thrones.
Also in British history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
Relatively few women are left-handed. Thus, a majority are left-brained. Since they aren't into alphabet thinking, hormones must play a greater role than brain hemisphere dominance.
As a left-handed male, I'm less empathetic than most women. I rest my case.
You're onto something!
I'm ambidextrous. I thought everyone was, until teenage years where when I'd work on cars with friends, they had little ability with the left hand.
It's like being surprised that many people don't verify what they're told.
I became aware of handedness in kindergarten. I was the only brat for whom our teacher had to spend time every morning teaching me how to tie my shoelaces. She was right-handed.
This lecture was presented in 2006. Has brain science changed significantly since then?
I was recently reading The Matter With Things by Ian Mcgilchrist and yes, turns out females are more left brained.
It makes sense because in many species, females tend to be the ones who have to manage the logistics.
Males are the explorers who see more globally.
My experience (as a palm reader) is that left-handed boys tend to have a harder time being accepted by other boys, but do seem to be more likeable to women which may also reflect on the fact that there seems to be a statistically significant number of left-handed men who become president.
I wasn't good at sports, so was among the last to get picked by teams. I remember that girls are also last to be picked. I don't know if they still do that ritual in gym class nowadays.
I grew up to be a loner instead of president. Being born on February 3rd may have something to do with it?
We have at least two presidents born in February - George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I don't think there's a quota on how many presidents can be born in each month so you might still have a shot!
many left handers from the 60's onward are left handed due to toxic (childhood vaccine) injury.
I have always been proud of my handedness. Here's a nature v. nurture problem:
The family I was raised in was 75% left handers. (adopted)
In my 30's, I went to meet my genetic family. NONE of them are left handed. NONE.
This leads me back to the possibility of vaccine injury. (we'll never truly know)
Environment? Or genes? (as a left handed female, I'm amazingly unemotional)
I was born in '67. My parents were not left-handed. One of my uncles might have been left-handed, but this recollection is vague.
I have heard of the fetal testosterone theory leading to more left-handers; if it was/is vaccination, then there are more of us than in the past. Or do you suggest there was a spike of left-handedness in the 60s that has now subsided?
I also read that children were forced to use their right hand because 'left' was associated with 'sinister'. So the lefty rate may have been artificially suppressed.
People keep remarking on our handedness, so maybe we should be proud (;
OK, my brother - born 1957 - was natively left handed, and they tried to "fix" him, inducing dyslexia. However, it gave him advantage in sport, it didn't matter where the glove or bat or ball was - he became a very skilled ambidextrous player. (and hard worker, with great emotional intelligence) (his ambidexterity improved my ambidexterity as well - you know, sibling rivalry)
I'd love to see a curve of left-handedness. Just 5 years later, they didn't try to "fix" me, and they didn't know about the dyslexia connection yet. So I reckon the curve ***started*** to rise then, and as the schedule increased, left handedness increased.
Not having nuns beat it out of you is a good chunk, being socially acceptable to be "sinister" would help. But I'm looking at the toxic angle at the moment.
Other toxins came into play like New Wheat, glyphosate, etc. But I'm looking at it more like "toxic damage" than genetics, to be sure. The testosterone - I've heard that too - can be blocked by any number of toxins (and maternal stress).
Oh yeah I heard the stories of older guys telling me how even in public school they were forced to use their right hand.
Barbaric.
I asked Google AI: "Prevalence of left-handedness over time?"
It shows an S-shaped curve.
There were many left-handed people prior to vaccines which have only been used on a regular basis in the last hundred or so years. My sister preceded all the vaccines, was born in 1929 and is the only left-handed person in a family of 6 daughters and two parents. And I do believe many mammals, not just humans, also demonstrate a right or left dominance, but don't recall the statistics on it.
Very interesting lecture. Don't agree with everything he says and the timelines, especially those of the religions but I guess you can't upset everyone and expect them to remember the message.
Also what does it mean for Pharma (seemingly very masculine and definitely a war industry)
I think the issue is that when religion becomes part of the state, it gets "printed" and loses it's original meaning. Didn't Jesus say once that many will be fed by the milk of his words but a few will find the meat behind them?
I'm not atheist, but I feel like major religions focus on bullshit. That's why you didn't see many of them push back against the jabs, nor the illegal wars that have happened for decades. They're servants of the society, not of the soul.
Same for science, which started off as an honest curiosity and discovery, only to turn into a business that serves the majority who just follow the crowd.
Not necessarily. I think whoever the state was or is, I believe they always expect "science" to take a back seat to power. Let us not forget the 300 plus years of the Inquisition. how Galileo chose to recant his belief in Copernicus to save his life and how Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake because he wouldn't. I suspect the next step of the Amerikan gov't is to bring back the auto da fe for those of us refusing to believe in their faith-based sicence.
Saving these videos for later. Very interesting. I was in a chat group where they talked about language changing the way we think. Some tribes, for example, age super slowly because they don’t have words in their language that describe actions in the past sense. Everything is in the presence so time ends up working out differently for them. I might be butchering my presentation on the concept but it was something along those lines.
I love how artists who are truly creative understand that language is just a framework and not the reality.
You get it.
I've tried to explain this to my engineering nerd friends and it's like they're cognitive morons.
I'm both angry and sad at this.
Their art is more precise. Mathematics doesn’t give space for interpretations much. At least not the bottom level of smart math doesn’t.
Ok. This is a very interesting lecture with some good points. However, there are many errors, but the one i cannot let pass, is about Athens and Sparta. Why was there an actual war over Helen of Troy? I submit, it was because, She was Spartan. She did have some freedoms, but was herself owned by the fascist state, and must breed with who the state decrees and no other. A bureaucracy owned her. Not even a human man, who could have human attachments and concern for her happiness. In Athens women had their own private faiths, one of the most popular was Dionysus....17 priestesses of such did have freedom, and all women worshipers of such, left their homes during the revels for days...traveling together. Most women had their own home businesses, weaving or making clothes. A household was her business. Often women had rooftop shrines to Adonis. Intimate shrines for rituals for Dionysus as seen in Pompey. Woman sphere of influence, of power is in their powerful nesting instinct, their home, where else should it be? A man seeks his power and recognition outside this arena. Where else should it be? together they are a powerful team, that can defeat adversity. Apart...they will be at odds with life.
Thanks for providing the impetus to revisit Schlain's The Alphab et versus the Goddess. I also have the book The Chalice and the Blade by Rianne Eisler which builds on the work of Gimbutas, who Schlain references, but claims is missing the transformation of medium to the written word. Now that we are leaving the written word behind, another shift is taking place that is rewiring our brains once again. This is the digital age where meaning is conveyed using emojis. The digital age does not honor the body, male or female. It honors the self-curated persona, the biohacked identity and medicalized solution. And in this world, womanhood is degraded even further and becomes a costume, not a continuity. The trans phenomenon that is taking place as the medium becomes digital is about a civilizational reprogramming that conveniently erases boundaries bewteen sexes, undermines stable categories and clears the path for a fully technocratic neofeudalist prison, where flesh, memory, and meaning are being lost. Schlain notes that Christianity erased the female from Christianity, when the masculine word anima was chosen for the new testament over the feminine word for breath - making teh father the son and the holy ghost three dudes, no woman at all. Now with this new gender ideology, the entire meaning of a woman is been uprooted.
Watching the Shlain lectures now. Fascinating
Dr. Leonard Shlain is a "they"?
I'm confused as to what are you referring to.
He's dead but I believe his channel was taken over by his daughter.
Thought... It will eventually CULL US ALL.
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Sorry, I can't understand what you're trying to say.
If you speak another language, write it in that and I'll use Google translate to understand.