X-Message-Number: 21715 Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 10:54:39 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Further comment to yesterday's post References: <> > Message #21713 > Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 11:51:11 -0700 > From: James Swayze <> > Subject: An overlooked reason women don't join. They may not see the future we do > References: <> <snip> > [JS] I believe this is but the surface of a much deeper issue. The basic differences > in men and women do, I think, stem from our hunter gatherer days when women gathered > and men hunted, generally speaking. There ar some theories about brain development > that point to this time as the cause in the difference between men and women in the > development of a larger corpus cullosum in women allowing increased communication > between brain halves. This is used to explain the particularly female ability to > communicate more parallel than men as any man can attest when frustrated at being > interrupted by the spouse while conversing on the phone. Men can't hear two > conversations at once but many women can, I am told, so the spouse thought nothing of > adding in her two cents or asking about the milk while her hunter was struggling with > just hearing the one conversations in the other ear. > > But can it go deeper than this? I think so. I have heard that women's senses are more > acute than men's also. I put all this together into a purely gut-science hypothesis > that perhaps all the heightened senses and increased communication between brain > halves causes women to perceive the world in more magical terms than men. It is said > that women are more in tune with nature. Can this be more than just a aphorism? The > first ever religions were female based and probably female led. Early on the tie > between the cycles of the moon and the human female reproductive cycle was noticed > and deified. > > I don't mean to lend credence to magical notions. I am first to point out we as a > species have been fooled by our brain's errant response to magnetic fields in what > are called temporal lobe seizures that form ecumenical hallucinations of all sorts. > These range from the angel in the room to the old hag on the chest to out of nowhere > feelings of dread and evil. Only education can clear this fog from the collective > human mind. Knowing we are susceptible to such hallucinations in the presence of > anomalous magnetic fields will go a long way to banishing notions of ghosts, goblins > angels and devils. Still it remains that women were the biggest group of callers to > the now proved fraudulent "Ms. Cleo psychic hotline". Why? My gut feeling is that > their gifts of heightened senses and parallel thinking fool them into believing there > is more unseen to nature than seen. It must also be noted that the aforementioned > hotline had as a key component a very touchy feely conversational and friendly banter > familial entertainment flavor to it. > > I don't suggest we couch our movement in mysticism to appeal to a wider base. > However, again, I do feel we could make it more familial. > > [JS] Upon further reflection and reading my own post I realized I might not have gone far enough to ensure the reader that I in no way mean to demean or discount women especially by the use of terms like "fooled". In my feeble attempt to be scientific and dispassionate I did not put enough weight to the fact I am awed by women and love and respect women extremely. I should have pointed out that for all we know, in accordance to my amateur theory, the phenomenon I alleged women may experience could be an ability men simply lack. <snip> > So, how can we get others to join us in having 'pre future thinking' mindsets? Until > we do we cannot expect others to join us because we cannot ask for them the questions > they may have. They cannot for themselves even ask these questions since they are not > confronted by them while not having their minds halfway in the future as we do. [JS] Just to be clear this immediate above was a general statement referring to all people of any gender not familiar with our concepts. I had transitioned from the specific to the general perhaps without adequate note of doing so. James -- Cryonics Institute of Michigan Member! The Immortalist Society Member! The Society for Venturism Member! MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the politician and proselytizing religious bigot who proscribes what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by fetal tissue research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to useless gods and pontificating religious quacks, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21715