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jamesq(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:
(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything & say that you stole it from me.
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:
(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything & say that you stole it from me.
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Date: 2004-11-20 07:37 am (UTC)a book: Shogun, by James Clavell
a cd: Dargaard, The Dissolution of Eternity
1. You find a suitcase lying open on the ground, half filled with cash and half filled with a white powder wrapped in plastic bags. There are no identifying marks on the suitcase, nobody is around, and it's in an out of the way place. There is probably 10 kg of powder and $20,000 in there. What do you do?
2. Is sexual orientation genetic or related to environment, in your opinion?
3. There are fourteen black candles, and three white ones. All are lit. Which ones do you blow out?
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Date: 2004-11-20 09:38 am (UTC)2) A little of both. I think that sexual orientation has a genetic component (it would be an example of kin selection in humans). Certainly how much hormones you produce, and in what ratios has a genetic basis that can affect behavior.
I also think that in vitro conditions can affect children throughout there subsequent lives. And finally, upbringing and experience can have a big effect. For example, a sex-only-for-procreation fundamentalist and a guy who can only get off in his fur-suit may both be technically "straight", but something happened to both of them that focused their urges down different paths that is clearly not genetic.
None of this should be construed to be an opinion that non-standard sexual practices are a disease like Tay-sachs or condition that needs correcting. We live in the 21st century and they only deciding factor in restricting people's bedroom choices should be whether all the participants are consenting adults.
3) All of them, when I want the lights out.