Dr. Susan Bradley, a Canadian psychiatrist and pioneer in child gender dysphoria treatment, came out against the popular model of affirming children’s transgender identities and putting them on puberty blockers — a practice she was once involved in — in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Bradley, who is now in her early eighties, expressed regret that the clinic had participated in the administration of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, which she now believes can cement a child’s sense of confusion out of which they would likely otherwise grow. She also expressed concern about the drugs’ side effects.
“We were wrong,” she said. “They’re not as reversible as we always thought, and they have longer term effects on kids’ growth and development, including making them sterile and quite a number of things affecting their bone growth.”
This reframe is very close to how Buddhist karma should be understood. Karma is mainly a forward-looking understanding of the mind-stream. The only thing I would add to Scott’s talk’ is the networking should be sincere. Phucktons of phony networking is one reason our politics and major institutions have become bloated, rotten, ineffectual, virtue-signaling, civilizational dead-ends (which are so lost in the dark they’ve allowed CRT to flourish). ABN
Because of lies such as these in legacy media — lies which I and millions of others believed — half of our nation’s electorate was smeared and delegitimized, and I myself was misled.
It damages our nation when legacy media put words in the mouths of Presidents and former Presidents, and call them traitors or criminals without evidence.
Apology gratefully accepted. Her doing this is fundamental to civility, mutual respect, and correct ethical behavior. It’s a good apology as she explains why and how but makes no excuses. ABN
Some twenty percent of the world stood up against covid malfeasance—the lies, the harmful non-treatments, mandates, and bans. Despite censorship and name-calling, this twenty percent of the world found each other. We found cures, effective medications and how to get them. As our families and friends rejected us, we found each other and shared humor and wisdom. It’s worth spending some real time just contemplating how wonderful and beautiful this side of covid has been and still is. This is the energy that will lead us away from evil and toward the good. With no one to help us but ourselves, with no indispensable leaders, about twenty percent of the world chose freedom, reason, compassion and wisdom. ABN
Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake of Arizona alleged Saturday that she was offered a bribe to stay out of politics for two years.
“Something happened to me this week before I left for CPAC and it shows how desperate these people are to stop me,” Lake said during the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
“Somebody showed up at my door this week,” Lake continued. “They called me before and said: I gotta talk to you in person, this can’t be done over the phone … They came to my door and they tried to bribe me out of getting out of politics. This really happened. I’m telling you this because this is how disgusting politics is. A mom who runs for office and they’re afraid of me? They tried to bribe me with a job title, with a huge salary, a position on a board.”
I hope she runs as Trump’s VP, then takes over as president after that. She has the charisma, brains, and moral character to do the job well. I believe her bribe story. This kind of thing definitely happens. ABN
Now that Biden has proven once again that he and the rest of the “leaders” in the Executive Branch are agents of China (with the 1 week authorization for Balloon Spying to take place), …
States must remove him and this lawless executive branch that is ruining our nation with Conniving Racist Training (CRT), Clot Jabs, Mutilation Training. They have no concept of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Arizona must take the bold step this week to hold a joint session legislative vote to reclaim its 11 electors for President and Vice President. It’s time!
1) DOJ claims: "You contributed to $350k of damage on Jan 6!" Respond: Byrne offers to send a $350k check to Congress if you drop that claim against all.
2) I told them peace but "do not bend a knee": I will face all non-violent charges for them.
I understand that J6 prisoners' Public Defenders simply say, "Sign this statement stating, 'I entered the Capitol because I thought DJT told me to!" If they refuse, the PD says quits, and the prisoner then gets a cracked iPad 1 hour/week in solitary to do his legal defense.
Though I leaned towards protests at 50 state capitols, when DC-J6 was announced I joined the calls for all to come to DC. While I repeatedly emphasized the need for peace, I told all "Do not bend a knee to this rigged election."
J6 prisoners should henceforth say, "I did it because I heard Byrne say on the radio we should come to DC and not 'bend a knee' to this rigged election!" Put all blame on me.
I hereby offer to DOJ to stand in and face all non- violent* J6 charges on their behalf. I won’t run.
See recent Santelli interview.
Any lawyer reading this who can advise how to construct something so that DOJ must charge me before they do J6 prisoners, please advise.
* If you broke a window or disobeyed or touched a cop, you are not on my team, and remain on your own.
Buddhism is very much a system of ethics. Buddhist practice is founded on the Five Precepts of refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and the irresponsible use of alcohol.
In most Buddhist traditions, these precepts are often taught as if they were fundamental to the workings of the universe. But how can morality be fundamental to the workings of the universe? Why does morality even matter to human beings?
If we think of a human being as a signaling system, we may be able to show that ethical thoughts and behavior are of fundamental importance to the system itself.
Human signaling systems signal internally, within themselves, and externally, toward other people. Our most important signaling system is the one we share with that person who is most important to us, our mate or best friend. Let’s confine our discussion to this sort of primary signaling system.
If I lie to my partner or cheat her, I may gain something outside of our shared signaling system, but that signaling system will suffer. And when that shared system suffers, my own internal signaling system will also suffer because it will contain errors. It will no longer be in its optimal state. Similarly, if she lies to me or cheats me, our mutual signaling system will become less than optimal as will both of our individual, or internal, signaling systems.
My own signaling system cannot grow or become optimal without my partner treating me with the best ethical behavior she can muster. And the same is true for her with respect to me. And we both know this.
We would be good to each other anyway, but it is helpful to see that our being good to each other has a very practical foundation—it assures us optimal performance of our mutual and internal signaling systems.
FIMLpractice is designed to provide partners with a clear and reasonably objective means to communicate honestly with each other. FIML practice will gradually optimize communication between partners by making it much clearer and more honest. In doing this, it will also optimize the operations of their mutual and individual signaling systems.
To my knowledge, there is nothing like FIML in any Buddhist tradition. But if I try to read FIML into the tradition, I may be able to find something similar in the way monks traveled together in pairs for much of the year. I don’t know what instructions the Buddha may have given them or how they spoke to each other, but it may be that they did a practice with each other similar to FIML practice.
In any case, if we view human being as a signaling system, we may be able to claim that clear signaling—that is, ethical signaling—is fundamental to the optimization of that system.
🔥🔥 My exchange with the Director of the NIH is what happens when you find Fauci’s emails detailing how there needs to “be a quick and devastating published take down” of dissenting medical opinions on COVID. Especially when those opinions are from distinguished doctors and even… pic.twitter.com/EzjPoD2reS
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I usually ignore members of Congress. But these hearings are producing honest speech so I am pleased to post them. When our politicians do a good job, I think we should support them for that. ABN
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