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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Grandy on May 16, 2009, 12:19:45 AM
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There's this 'scientific' magazine on my country called Superinteressante, Superinteresting to you guys, which was good but gradually started to suck once they decided everything could be traced down to genetics.
The guy is a thief? Why, we might just be looking at a guy with THIEF GENES!
The guy is homossexual? Why, there are COLORFULL GENES!
Are you atheist? You may be going against your JESUS GENES!
Hitler suicided because he had SUICIDAL GENES!
The guy likes rock rather than classic music? That's because he's got OZZY GENES!
I'm not making any of this **** up. Well, other than the genes names, but every listed example was said at least once. You steal because your genetic makeup tells you to steal, you are merry because your genetic background is gay, you are atheist because you are stubborn and just won't accept you were programed to believe in God.
Yes, they used the term programmed.
Plus, they tried to explain Hitler's genes so many times and coming up with so many different genes for him (hating genes, killer genes, speech genes, suicidal genes, arrogant genes, but, strangely enough, no vegan genes) the guy must have the most advanced genetic system since God.
Then, one of these days, a new headline in the cover. In BIG, BOLD LETTERS, it was as it follows:
GENETIC IS NOT THE SAME AS DESTINY!
"Well," though I, "at least they are clearing up their misinformations up until-" then I read the rest of the cover, in smaller font and not as bold, but also in caps.
"THIS NEW DISCOVERY HAS REVOLUTIONED ALL WE KNOW ABOUT DECEASES"
cue facepalm, this time I didn't even care I was wearing glasses.
How, in the named of my gene-mandatory God, do they think this is a NEW DISCOVERY? Genetic-Jesus! I know this stuff since I was 12! I mean, really? Do we really needed to treat this as a miraculous insight? It's OBVIOUS that stuff ain't destiny!
That just shows Hideo Kojima is smarter than most genetic researches, since he found that up and explained everything by the end of Metal Gear Solid!
Then next month, the same magazine was explaining why people drink because they have drunk genes.
Dear God, I need to start drinking. Genes or not.
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So... If I were to kill someone... Then I could blame it on my genes, and get off scotch free?
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This sounds pretty stupid. DNA determines some things, but not anything significant on higher thinking, like atheism or music preference. I wonder who writes this crap?
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scotch free?
Quite certain it's "scot free".
Typo genes?
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This sounds pretty stupid. DNA determines some things, but not anything significant on higher thinking, like atheism or music preference. I wonder who writes this crap?
A person who claims they know a lot about this stuff and get overpaid for talking about it.
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What determines your taste in clothing? Blue genes?
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That magazine needs to start taking lessons from the U.S. scientific journal, Cell--they had Hirohiko Araki, the guy who made JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, draw a robot-protein pummeling a REM bacteria (something like that) the only way he can. Awesome.
As for genetics....ha. I lost favor of that stuff a long time ago. Why bother with it--we can apply it, but it doesn't mean we can genetically manipulate anything. Genes aren't Lego blocks--they don't stick where you force 'em. They can only attach to certain other genes, else you get mutations up and down the genetic code. Not the good, X-Men kind, either--the debilitating, 'I-can't-make-a-vital-enzyme' kind.
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Genetic Control does not equal Mind Control XD
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Quite certain it's "scot free".
Typo genes?
Grk... Ack... *Asplodes*
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There's some meat to this story though. There've been a lot of studies done on identical twins who were separated at birth. Regardless of the different environments they get raised in, the twins always have a remarkable amount of similarities in demeanor, quirks, taste in music, even what they name their children. Other studies on adopted children find their IQ's and criminal records almost always resemble their birth parents' more than their foster parents.
Scary, isn't it? We're pre-programmed.
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pre-programming is LOL
I'm nothing like my parents or my family members. I don't even have the same accent.
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Not everyone turns out like their parents. I mean, look at me. My folks were honest, hard-working people.
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Not everyone turns out like their parents. I mean, look at me. My folks were honest, hard-working people.
Wait, are you being honest now? Or is it another lie!?
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Wait, are you being honest now? Or is it another lie!?
Pwnt
I am remarkably like my father in every single way, so some genetics I believe in
However...claiming everything can be traced back to your DNA is just bull
I don't have spell check over here, can't you tell?!?!
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Wait, are you being honest now? Or is it another lie!?
It's a reference, actually.
However, it does totally apply to me...
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I don't believe that genes set your destiny or how you are as a person.
Sure. Some behaviour might carry on, like stubbornness or such. But I refuse to believe that there are such things as "killer genes" , "nazi genes" or something.
It just sounds wrong. DNA and stuff made us into the things we are. But I doubt it made how we're going to be.
And I still don't believe those twin-experiments. I still haven't read any scientific report on it. Just heard teachers and people talk about it.
And if they are so close. I blamethat the families are too similar
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I've also read about how much twins can be different depending on how they're raised. :P
And even if twins are very similar, that doesn't mean there are specific genes for liking Ozzy or whatever. It's just that an exactly same DNA pattern determines a similar person. I don't think you can isolate them to one chromosome or anything like that, because DNA is very delicate.
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You guys bring up good points. So true. XD
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This thread is why I don't believe in Asperger's or Autism.
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I don't see why you guys are laughing so much about it... It's a valid argument that we're born to have certain personality traits. You're certainly born gay or straight, so I don't know what you find so ridiculous about that. And in certain places you certainly are programmed to believe in god. You're told it's the truth from an early age and everyone around you, even your teachers feed it to you. That's not ridiculous, it's the sad truth.
I don't even have the same accent.
Accent is entirely to do with who you listen to so if you've been around people with a certain accent a lot you'll start to use it... This affects some people more than others. That point isn't really anything, man.
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This thread is why I don't believe in Asperger's or Autism.
Are you being sarcastic, looking at the fact that we argue so much about it?
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This thread is why I don't believe in Asperger's or Autism.
Autism's real. Only, not the "He's awkward around people so he's autist" kind., the "He never answers when we talk to him and keeps spinning his head back and forth." kind.
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Are you being sarcastic, looking at the fact that we argue so much about it?
If he's being sarcastic, he has the worst sarcastic genes EVAH.
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Autism's real. Only, not the "He's awkward around people so he's autist" kind., the "He never answers when we talk to him and keeps spinning his head back and forth." kind.
What does this mean? You do know that syndromes are only defined by perceptions of people; symptoms, in contrast to a disease?
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I mean there was this autist kid in my class who kept making weird sounds with his mouth, didn't respond to almost any stimulus like calling his name (unless you yelled at his ear), and sometimes would let out a ear-breaking yell for the sake of it. He was the tallest and strongest of us all, yet he believed against all evidence that he was the shorter and the weakest of us all, to the point of denying results of a tape. He also was paranoid and thought everyone was out trying to get him. If we laughed at a joke, he'd yell at us (and once he banged a calssmate's head to the stone wall) because he was sure we were laughing at him. He also had the tendency of rocking back and forth in his chair.
He was, undoubtfully, autist, whereas people like me who dislike crowded places and tend to be quiet, are not autists.
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Let's just say I'd understand an Autist's head better than you ever could.
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Not his, I am sure.
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Let's just say I'd understand an Autist's head better than you ever could.
As with I.
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As with I.
We could start a trio. :O
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We could start a trio. :O
We would have to be supplied with rocking chairs and retractable pens.
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I read "retractable penis." Now that I see what you really said, my interest has dwindled.
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I read "retractable penis." Now that I see what you really said, my interest has dwindled.
It can be used both ways.
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retractable penis.
This is now a gene.
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Buffalo Bill's dream has come true.
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@ Retractable pens...
what about a detatchable penis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9bOAF7uPIc)?
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I read "retractable penis." Now that I see what you really said, my interest has dwindled.
I read the same thing
Not going to comment on the current topic, as I'll just get yelled at for having strong views
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The guy likes rock rather than classic music? That's because he's got OZZY GENES!
It should also be noted that liking the band KISS is caused by the Simmons Gene.
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what about a detatchable penis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9bOAF7uPIc)?
I... But...
My excessive use of '...' is obviously due to Ellipse Raping Genes.
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We would have to be supplied with rocking chairs and retractable pens.
I am for this.