Teaching kids, or anybody else for that matter, about sex does not equal sexualization, nor does it encourage experimentation.
What sort of warped mind thinks that it does? Forum: Recovery Board
"religious conservatives fought it all the way and said the subject should be taught at home"
This reminds me of my cousin who got in trouble for having sex with his teacher. He was home schooled. Forum: Recovery Board
Without fur, fangs, or claws. Our survival, as a herd, is dependent upon the whole herd, not the individual. Civilization, social mores, religion, etc., are just the formalization of this evolutionary adaptation. Forum: Recovery Board
I dislike second hand smoke too. But given the brown cloud I see hanging over Salt Lake every time I drive through, it would seem to be a minor issue. Forum: Recovery Board
Last year was the Great Basin Anthropological Conference. These two conferences alternate years.
But yes, it is definitely scientific-spectrum behavior. Forum: Recovery Board
For those of you who may be interested in the real prehistory of the Americas (at least the Rocky Mountain Region), the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference will be held in Logan, UT, Oct 3-5. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it this year.
But if you want more information, you can go here:
http://www.rockymtnanthro.org/
The schedule and abstracts are available there if you wa Forum: Recovery Board
Interesting. I had just read about the group in the second link earlier this month:
https://www.hcn.org/articles/culture-the-wests-remote-corners-offer-a-safe-space-for-polygamists Forum: Recovery Board
Hey, I've got lot's of Christiansen's too (on my Moms side). And Hunsackers, Pratts, and Robinsons. It never changed the way I was treated, but we were not Utah Mormons. And I was that damned long haired kid who was always causing trouble (1970's). Forum: Recovery Board
"If we look around today I would say that the Indians are far better off today than they were in 1492. The life expectancy is much higher, nutrician is much better, they actually live in houses with plumbing and heat, internet, cable. They have casinos to spend their time in."
You have never been on a reservation have you? Forum: Recovery Board
Have you seen the movie "At Play in the Fields of the Lord"? It's one that I really like.
I've seen a few of those comments basically saying that being conquered, murdered and having their land stolen was really the best thing that could happen to the Native Americans. I haven't replied because I don't think that level of ignorance and patrimony deserve a response. Forum: Recovery Board
I think the Solar calendar is, and was, always more important. Here is the Sun Dagger in Chaco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qdhU5Lw2A
And if we returned to hunting, agriculture, etc. You wouldn't need to get your nails done as they would be worn down naturally. You also wouldn't need to "work out" to stay in shape. Or save up money and leave time so you could go hunting Forum: Recovery Board
This past weekend I was planting a rose out in the yard and humming a tune. After a bit I stopped and tried to figure out what the tune was. And then I figured it out.
It was the Handcart Song!
Arrrgghhh! The indoctrination still vexes me! Forum: Recovery Board
<<The U.S. has never not been a multicultural and multilingual country.>>
Actually, it always has been multicultural and multilingual. Even more so before we killed all the Indians.
<<Are you suggesting we don't have an official national language?>>
No need to suggest it, it's a fact. Forum: Recovery Board
Yes, the Bhutanese coming to America are a Nepalese related minority (language and culture) in Bhutan. Starting in around 1990 the Bhutan Government started persecuting them and driving them out. Forum: Recovery Board
There were 2 married girls in my senior class. Both to men in their mid-twenties. What was interesting about the law in that way back time and place, was that they could order alcoholic beverages when out with their drinking aged husbands. Forum: Recovery Board
The fact that there is no physical evidence (archaeological) of a single thing contained in the book. Also, that there is no tribal mythology that is even remotely connected to it. There are also no linguistic similarities between Native American languages and those of the Middle East.
Those things did it in for me, and that was before DNA. Forum: Recovery Board
I grew up in E. Washington but had cousins in Issaquah right behind the LDS Church. There was a little shed there where the Scouts collected newspapers and magazines. Apparently, on good member had a Playboy subscription that we were able to peruse as young men going through the recycle. He also had a membership at "Fraternity Snoqualamie" as the quarterly, finely illustrated, newsle Forum: Recovery Board