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Hell ya I would choose immortality, see http://www.transhumanism.org/ on the actual movement in progress to become immortal.

Indian caste shows link to Europeans A study has shown that people in higher ranks of the Indian caste system are more closely related to Europeans than Asians. Experts now believe Europeans moved into India about 5,000 years ago, helped put the caste system in place and put themselves at the top. The complete article is at http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_292443.html? Of course, emperialism is not unique to Whites, many other races have done the same, consider the present Jewish empire in the Middle East, the Mongolian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Mohammad Empire that was finally stopped in the Battle of Tours in France by the famous general Hannabal, etc. All races have engaged in empire-building. I guess you can say that genocide and raping and pillaging "the other" is part of human nature in general.

I in general don't care for the underlying message of all the science fiction movies produced by Hollywood, which is that technology is bad for society. They try to scare you away from all the cool stuff like cloning, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, cyborg technology, mind uploading, etc. In other words, I am a Transhumanist, so I like all these science stuff.

From http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/ Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism Professor Kevin MacDonald The history of Zionism illustrates a dynamic within the Jewish community in which the most radical elements end up pulling the entire community in their direction. Zionism began among the most ethnocentric Eastern European Jews and had explicitly racialist and nationalist overtones. However, Zionism was viewed as dangerous among the wider Jewish community, especially the partially assimilated Jews in Western countries, because it opened Jews up to charges of disloyalty and because the Zionists’ open racialism and ethnocentric nationalism conflicted with the assimilationist strategy then dominant among Western Jews. Zionist activists eventually succeeded in making Zionism a mainstream Jewish movement, due in large part to the sheer force of numbers of the Eastern European vanguard. Over time, the more militant, expansionist Zionists (the Jabotinskyists, the Likud Party, fundamentalists, and West Bank settlers) have won the day and have continued to push for territorial expansion within Israel. This has led to conflicts with Palestinians and a widespread belief among Jews that Israel itself is threatened. The result has been a heightened group consciousness among Jews and ultimately support for Zionist extremism among the entire organized American Jewish community. In the first part of this series I discussed Jewish ethnocentrism as a central trait influencing the success of Jewish activism.1 In the contemporary world, the most important example of Jewish ethnocentrism and extremism is Zionism. In fact, Zionism is incredibly important. As of this writing, the United States has recently accomplished the destruction of the Iraqi regime, and it is common among influential Jews to advocate war between the United States and the entire Muslim world. In a recent issue of Commentary (an influential journal published by the American Jewish Committee), editor Norman Podhoretz states, “The regimes that richly deserve to be overthrown and replaced are not confined to the three singled-out members of the axis of evil [i.e., Iraq, Iran, and North Korea]. At a minimum, the axis should extend to Syria and Lebanon and Libya, as well as ’friends’ of America like the Saudi royal family and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, along with the Palestinian Authority, whether headed by Arafat or one of his henchmen.”2 More than anything else, this is a list of countries that Israel doesn’t like, and, as I discuss in the third part of this series, intensely committed Zionists with close links to Israel occupy prominent positions in the Bush administration, especially in the Department of Defense and on the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney. The long-term consequence of Zionism is that the U.S. is on the verge of attempting to completely transform the Arab/Muslim world to produce governments that accept Israel and whatever fate it decides for the Palestinians, and, quite possibly, to set the stage for further Israeli expansionism. The complete article is at http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol3no3/km-understandII.html

From http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/support-bell-curve.html "The Meaning and Measurement of Intelligence 1. Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings--"catching on," "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do. 2. Intelligence, so defined, can be measured, and intelligence tests measure it well. They are among the most accurate (in technical terms, reliable and valid) of all psychological tests and assessments. They do not measure creativity, character personality, or other important differences among individuals, nor are they intended to. 3. While there are different types of intelligence tests, they all measure the same intelligence. Some use words or numbers and require specific cultural knowledge (like vocabulary). Others do not, and instead use shapes or designs and require knowledge of only simple, universal concepts (many/few, open/closed, up/down). [ . . . ] 5. Intelligence tests are not culturally biased against American blacks or other native-born, English-speaking peoples in the U.S. Rather, IQ scores predict equally accurately for all such Americans, regardless of race and social class. Individuals who do not understand English well can be given either a nonverbal test or one in their native language. [ . . . ] 9. IQ is strongly related, probably more so than any other single measurable human trait, to many important educational, occupational, economic, and social outcomes. Its relation to the welfare and performance of individuals is very strong in some arenas in life (education, military training), moderate but robust in others (social competence), and modest but consistent in others (law-abidingness). Whatever IQ tests measure, it is of great practical and social importance. 10. A high IQ is an advantage in life because virtually all activities require some reasoning and decision-making. Conversely, a low IQ is often a disadvantage, especially in disorganized environments. Of course, a high IQ no more guarantees success than a low IQ guarantees failure in life. There are many exceptions, but the odds for success in our society greatly favor individuals with higher IQs. 11. The practical advantages of having a higher IQ increase as life settings become more complex (novel, ambiguous, changing, unpredictable, or multifaceted). For example, a high IQ is generally necessary to perform well in highly complex or fluid jobs (the professions, management): it is a considerable advantage in moderately complex jobs (crafts, clerical and police work); but it provides less advantage in settings that require only routine decision making or simple problem solving (unskilled work)."

Homosexuality is, based on my research, congenital, at least in some cases. Consider hermaphroditism where individual human organisms are born with both male and female sexual organs and other sexual characteristics as well that are both male and female. These individuals may also be psychologically homosexual or bi-sexual. Surely there was no traumatic event in their lives that suddently caused a woman to grow a penis or a man to grow breasts and a vagina. It's a congenital problem. So by extrapolation, I believe homosexuality is congenital as well.

Hello, I will also support the claim that at least in humans, it's the brain size to body size ratio that has .44 correlation to IQ, as is stated at http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1998generalintelligencefactor.pdf "Moreover, research on the physiology and genetics of g has uncovered biological correlates of this psychological phenomenon. In the past decade, studies by teams of researchers in North America and Europe have linked several attributes of the brain to general intelligence. After taking into account gender and physical stature, brain size as determined by magnetic resonance imaging is moderately correlated with IQ (about 0.4 on a scale of 0 to 1). So is the speed of nerve conduction. The brains of bright people also use less energy during problem solving than do those of their less able peers. And various qualities of brain waves correlate strongly (about 0.5 to 0.7) with IQ: the brain waves of individuals with higher IQs, for example, respond more promptly and consistently to simple sensory stimuli such as audible clicks. These observations have led some investigators to posit that differences in g result from differences in the speed and efficiency of neural processing."

Hi, Transhumanism is the science of augmenting the human body and brain through the use of science and technology. This field materialized I believe around 1985 and formed the first organization, the Extropy Institute http://www.extropy.org/ around 1989 I believe. Transhumanists seek to use things like cloning, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, cyborg technology, mind uploading, artificial intelligence, and similar radical methods to enhance the body and brain, the ultimate goal being to become immortal and super-intelligent, in effect to become gods, if you will. Mythological gods such as Zues and Ares were immortal and physically strong, but not super-intelligent; transhumanists seek to improve human intelligence as well, so that we are not just physically powerful like Zues, but also intellectually powerful. Some concepts of Transhumanism: The Singularity: the creation of a super-intelligence that keeps on rebuilding itself to becoming more and more intelligent, even at an exponential rate if possible. This entity would become so intellectually powerful that we humans could not conceive of the resulting product. Either humans will become the Singularity or we will create one out of artificial intelligence to serve humans. Mind Uploading: The plan to copy our mind into a super-computer that is immune to decay and built to be upgradable. This is problematic though since uploading your brain may just create a clone of you, a twin, while the original person still remains in the original biological brain. Cyborg technology: slowly replacing our body and brain parts with materials that not only enhances us, but are immune to decay so we thus live longer, even for ever if possible. Genetic engineering: used to not only create super-zygotes for birth, but to actually alter our current existing bodies for the better, kind of like the recent movie Spider-Man and the older movie "The Nutty Professor" with Eddy Murphy in which the body completely changed to fit the new DNA inserted into the person's cells. Cloning: used to clone high quality humans. Stem cells: used to clone organs and body parts to replace damaged and dying parts on existing people. Artificial Intelligence: Do you remember the character "Data" from Star Trek? He was superior to humans both physically and intellectually. Transhumanists don't believe life must remain organic, but rather re-built for the better, even if that means creating humans out of the same material and design as "Luetenant Data." Eugenics: Selective breeding and the use of cloning and genetic engineering to improve the gene pool of a given population group. Eugenics is not supported by all Transhumanist organizations, such as the World Transhumanist Organization, but is supported by other ones, such as Transtopia. The most non-eccentric Transhumanist organization is the World Transhumanist Association: http://www.transhumanism.org/ while the MOST eccentric organization (and my personal favorite) is Transtopia http://www.transtopia.org/ The rest of the Transhumanist organizations/websites lie in the middle of these two extremes and include the following: http://www.extropy.org/ http://www.betterhumans.com/ http://www.kurzweilai.net/ http://www.nickbostrom.com/ http://www.aleph.se/Trans/ http://www.imminst.org/ http://www.alcor.org/ http://www.foresight.org/ http://www.cryonics.org/ http://www.minduploading.org/ http://www.singularitywatch.com/ http://www.lef.org/ http://www.humancloning.org/ http://www.plausiblefutures.com/ http://www.prometheism.net/ http://www.euvolution.com/ http://www.eugenics.net/ http://www.neoeugenics.com/ http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/ http://www.cosmotheism.net/ http://www.euvolution.com/euvolution/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/e-l/