The Culture that has been here all the time

I remember when: It was dangerous to be different. I had long hair and wore mod clothes and was beaten waiting for the bus as I left my girlfriend's home after I heard one of the three men as they passed me say, Is it a boy or is it a girl?" I had gay friends in the 1960s that was risky for me and them. People of color were not welcome in every place. I was near Newark NJ, during the riots and devastation: Troops and other official entities moved in with violent intent: most of the city burned to the ground. People either feared change or went all out in violent activities: anti-war, anti-discrimination.

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"In 1955, it was a criminal offense to be gay in the UK, with laws prohibiting sexual acts between men being actively enforced. Lesbian women serving in the military also faced penalties. Homosexuality was widely considered a mental illness, and medical interventions were used to "treat" it. Despite the legal and social stigma, some openly gay individuals, like Peter Wildeblood, actively challenged the laws and faced legal repercussions. "

People were openly mocked in the US if they were different, including birth defects.

I, and some of my friends, (including my brothers) stood up to the evil when we could it was a big risk. I enlisted in the Army but maybe because I had a valuable mind, they tolerated some of my quirks but took all my Bob Dylan songbooks.

Religion still is dangerous if you are not approved by the members of a sect or faith.

Freedom and Liberty are not guaranteed, and they are not free. Be ready for the challenge, silence is not a good option.  Six million people plus went to the German gas chambers or were shot, not all were jews.

I am an old Hippie we always promote peaceful protest but we can defend ourselves if threatened.

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"We must be taught how to navigate" the new world of copious information filled with propaganda and truth in a messy jumble. Valid information is so abundant, yet nefarious people fill the databases with fake, distorted, or scammer traps. 

Also, if you require esoteric information, you must be prepared to pay for it in some way. Be a member of some organization, pay the fees, purchase reports as needed, or employ experts to gather the needed information.

This is daunting for students, consumers, and aspiring entrepreneurs.

The digital age has arrived at the point that the artificial can replicate the genuine, and the most insidious aspect of this is creating the illusion that an expert puts forth information that seems real: film, photo, and video.

This is not a mere Renaissance or brave new world it is living in a maze-like puzzle.

I know that having a liberal education with a mix of history, logic, science, and technology increases your chances of avoiding the traps and snares.

This help is found in books like Third Millennium Thinking ( I do not get anything for this recommendation, I don't sell books.)

Humans have a fabulous imagination. We can create a wonderful reality from one that is a total wasteland without life. Even a fantasy world from the dismal life I lead.

I chose the planet Venus because with a thick, poisonous atmosphere and is hot enough to melt lead on its surface. Poets and writers imagined it to be a paradise until the Verna Venus landers arrived and gave us the real picture. LOL

Beautiful inhabitant of Venus as imagined:

vs the real surface of Venus without life of any sort:

I have not one doubt about it: Sexual Attraction is Automatic.

I believe first of all, our genes and chemistry control who we are attracted to, and our nurture either works for that or against that. If we are left to navigate puberty, we become aware of the process and by the time most of us reach adulthood, we have a clear picture who we are sexually.

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There are many different sexual orientations, and it is impossible to determine an exact number. Some common sexual orientations include:  
Heterosexual: Attraction to people of the opposite sex
Homosexual (Gay or Lesbian): Attraction to people of the same sex
Bisexual: Attraction to people of both sexes
Asexual: Lack of sexual attraction
Pansexual: Attraction to people of any gender
Queer: An umbrella term for individuals who do not identify as heterosexual or cisgender
Intersex: Individuals born with variations in sex characteristics  
It's important to note that these are just a few examples, and there are many other sexual orientations that exist. Additionally, individuals may identify with multiple sexual orientations or change their identification over time.

No one else should or even can alter who you know who you are in this regard. Trying to interfere is dangerous to your well-being and may cause great harm to you. ONLY YOU KNOW WHY YOU ARE THE WAY YOU ARE, AND IT IS YOUR CHOICE TO CONTINUE OR ALTER THE PATH YOU ARE ON AS YOU SEE FIT.

Your happiness and emotional equilibrium are at stake. Interference from external sources (from ignorant people who pretend to know better) does the most harm.

Freedom to be who you are, foils tghe sterotypical idealism as defined by others is an errant point of view - prejudice and bigotry.

Here, I have openly expressed my frustration at not having a lover to engage in sex with since my wife has serious cognitive issues and is now asexual.

I don't blame her, it isn't on purpose, it is her illness. Some men divorce or at least place their non-functioning significant other in a care facility. "In sickness and or in health, 'till death do us part" is what I promised her forty years ago.

Go back to my youth for a clue about my temperament: I fell in love with every girl I felt an attraction for, like in the TV show "Dobie Gillis*". It seemed all the girls I was attracted to were not attracted to me. That was until I became a singer-songwriter in Greenwich Village, NYC, in the 1960s. Then I seemed to fall in love with a new girl every week, and most of them found me agreeable. Yet today, at my age of 77, I still have a strong libido and can easily fall back into that mode of sexual adventure. That is that my forty years plus of monogamy isn't working any longer.

If I had a social life, I could see myself mingling with several potential women to love and make love with, and see what happens. Just a fantasy now.

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OK, your soul mate and you have a rift that can not be mended, so it is "Sayonara".

You set out to find a replacement: WRONG!

You Can Not Replace Someone. If reconciliation is not possible, it would be wise to begin a new relationship based on who you get involved with and custom-build it. Step by step, there are NO SHORT CUTS that would work in my opinion based on experience.

First, you must be over losing your significant other, and second, ready to move on. Of course, there is always a legacy we call baggage, filled with damaged goods, admit it or not. 

I experienced the negative aftereffects and learned from the lessons.

Before I reveal my experience and perspective on this topic. May ask for your opinions? Do any of you continue with sexual relations when a woman is having her period?

I was surprised as a young man to discover that a famous scientist may have had a "promiscuous" lifestyle.

Artists and musicians, and actors all seemed to fall into this category, but scientists?

I have an extensive technological training and a Physics degree, but my tendency to be promiscuous, I believe, was due to my creative sides of art and music. Let me share with you the three scientists whose love life was unexpected to me (the ignorant human boy).

While the extent of J. Robert Oppenheimer's personal life, particularly his relationships, remains a subject of ongoing debate and speculation, there is evidence that he had a complex and possibly promiscuous history. His affairs, particularly with Jean Tatlock, were well-documented and played a role in the scrutiny he faced during the Cold War. 

Several famous scientist couples were also known to have romantic relationships. Notable examples include Marie and Pierre Curie, Gerty and Carl Cori, and Irene Joliot-Curie and Jean-Frederic Joliot. Jerome and Isabella Karle, and Marie-Anne and Antoine Lavoisier were also scientific collaborators who were also romantic partners. 

Several prominent scientists, including Albert Einstein, are often described as having had a "promiscuous" lifestyle. This term, while subjective, generally refers to a lifestyle characterized by multiple casual sexual relationships. Einstein, along with other figures like Sigmund Freud, are sometimes associated with this label due to their personal relationships and behaviors that deviated from societal norms of their time.  
Here's a more detailed look: 

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I have noted that popular science literature has introduced discussions on philosophical questions once more, and the questions about "time" are at the forefront.

Einstein definition:

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Einstein's theory of spacetime, as developed in his theories of relativity, describes how space and time are interconnected and not absolute, but rather relative to the observer's motion and gravity. In his special theory of relativity, Einstein showed that the speed of light is constant for all observers, regardless of their motion, leading to the concept of a unified space-time continuum. His general theory of relativity further expanded on this, proposing that gravity is a result of the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. 

This has been verified and made use of in the space age by accounting for it in satellite speed and distance from the closest center of gravity.

STOP.

Our sense of time and our perception vary little in our human reality. Navigation and accurate time keeping are important, but how we think of time is not often viewed in the number of decimal points our timepiece is accurate to.

Sometimes it seems more time has passed, and sometimes it seems less time has passed. The filter of our mind is affected by our age, our hormones, and the activities we engage in. As we are experiencing a trauma, it seems time is in slow motion, and as we are experiencing boredom, it seems time is dragging on. Our sense of time has little to do with how much time has elapsed as we humans define it, but more about how many things are occurring in time that we experience them.

Set aside philosophy: We observe how things age from stone to fruit to our bodies. It seems we are captive by the second law of thermodynamics, and the best we can do is slow down the deterioration of things with the passing of time.

I have observed it also seems we have some form of internal clock (life in general), as we somehow usually know when it is time to wake up, go to sleep, go to work, find a mate, time to eat and so on even though these biological clocks are subject to error they are also subject to improvement with training. 

For now, we define time as a second, a minute, a day, a week, a month, and a year, etc.

The most accurate practical clock we have for keeping the time scale we as humans adopt

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The most accurate practical clock currently available is the strontium optical lattice clock. It can lose less than one second every 40 billion years. This level of precision is achieved by using a lattice of light waves to trap and measure strontium atoms, allowing for a more stable and precise timekeeping mechanism than traditional cesium atomic clocks. 

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It is not a coincidence that the way things suddenly seem to emerge and relate is the way reality works. The story of Pesto.

In the 1990s, it seems that all of a sudden, everyone I knew was having Pesto. It was offered in restaurants, and recipes seemed to pop up everywhere.

This type of coincidence has seemed to happen often with some popular things, like a Furby toy or a Hula Hoop, encouraged by marketing. Yet I have experienced this type of coincidence that did not seem connected to advertisement or word of mouth, it just appeared to pop up spontaneously. I theorize it is the collective result of known and unknown influences permeating the prevailing reality. 

Some of these coincidental examples can be attributed to significant world events: war, famine, disease, or even a historical event like the moon landings. I am not omniscient or a savant, but the one thought I have is that somehow the reality we all share is how we are connected (see previous blog). This and similar happenings have something to do with this phenomenon, is my best guess.

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