Posted on 06/03/2006 3:08:12 PM PDT by pleikumud
And, since it has been basically established that the AIDs virus originated in Chimps, the, shall we say, 'ALTERNATE THEORY' of its 'jump to humans' is too unspeakable to contemplate......
I don't know if I would go that far, but as far as this AIDs epidemic, it pretty clearly IS natural selection at work. Strip away all the agonizing, theorizing, perversion-norming, etc, and that is what you are left with.
Simple natural selection at work. Choose a lifestyle that is harmful and your genes will start being culled from the population through early death. The only 'problem' with AIDs from this standpoint is that it takes way too long to incubate, and thus the virus assures its perpetuation...
Insensitive? You bet. And you can stick it in your pipe and smoke it. Reality BITES sometimes.
After being diagnosed, he would continue having gay sex in every city he flew into, sometimes leaving a message scrawled on the mirror for his partner to find after waking up, to the effect that "You now have the Gay Cancer".
So actually, it was largely the willful transmition of the disease by one sex-crazed psychopathic homosexual that is largely responsible for the spread of this disease across N. America....
Sorry dude, but you are wrong. Sodomy is an UNNATURAL act in the SCIENTIFIC sense - and BECAUSE it is an UNNATURAL act (ie. the body parts were NOT DESIGNED FOR IT), it creates a stratospherically higher incidence of communicating sexual diseases due to the easier tearing of tissue (and the lack of protective tissue) in the body parts not meant for this activity (even Paul in the Bible refers to it in the passage that states that men who commited perversion with other men got their just rewards 'in their bodies' - or something like that). This is not 'rocket science'. The ancients knew it.
I think you're right. Stalin and Mao probably killed 30 million people, each. Add several million due to Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein (Baathist Socialist), and Hitler (National Socialist Party or Nazis). ETC.
Yet we still have politicians and voters who haven't learned anything. They still want collectivism, socialism, communism; i.e., more government control and less individual freedom.
"Wake me up when it approaches 99.9 million so I can get a beer to cry in."
I was going to say that I was right behind, but someone that sounds so wrong.
The guy was finishing his PHD and was going to be sent by the Church to run some African school.
The priest was very well educated and was from there, so I figure he must know something of what he was talking about.
He does consider AIDS in general just a plague that lowers the human populations.
That continents had them before and we will get others again as he sees it.
C'mon, 'joy .... how many times has that ever happened? It is virtually ALWAYS involves at least ONE experienced rump ranger.
If you say no .. then you're living in San Francisco.
(BTW, my IQ is 'big' ... and I'll leave my 'tiny' part[s] right here.)
Maybe not.
There are lots of other factors.
See Why is HIV So Prevalent in Africa? by Fumento He's been writing about AIDS since 1986. Find over 50 of his articles here
In order to have a discussion you have to be able to read.
I also understand that. If one is engaging in high risk behaviors then of course there is a higher chance of getting an STD.
That wasn't my point.
At any rate the facts are that STD's are passed around far more often by heterosexuals.. anyone who tries to argue otherwise is a moron.
For all these people on here that talk about homosexuality is the worse thing on the planet...
They may have forgotten that homosexuality didn't make the 10 commandments but adultry did.
And adultry occurs far more often than homosexuality.
In fact odds are that at least 2 out of 10 people(and I'll be conservative on that) that will post on this board about the evils of homosexuality have had an adulterous relationship at least once in their lives.
Most are poor and haven't had a blood test for HIV. So these are all estimates.
The crux of the article is the opposite of the opening sentence!!!!!!!!!!
The one line you read was a 'quote' that the rest of the article refuted.
Damn! .......
Please
READ THE ARTICLE!!!!
The crux of the article is the opposite of the opening sentence!!!!!!!!!!
The one line you read was a 'quote' that the rest of the article refuted.
Damn! .......
Please
READ THE ARTICLE!!!!
well, that's what they say they are....
I understand that homosexuality is so taboo that even the word doesn't exist in some African dialects.....
but that's neither here nor there......in America, it has been GAY MEN and DRUG ABUSERS that have spread the disease...and lo and behold, its pretty much stayed in its target group.....
we will get an occassional hetero who doesn't use drugs get the infection...invariably....they have had close intimate contact with either a man who is bisexual and doesn't admit it, or a person who uses needle drugs and doesn't admit it either....
as far as the population is concerned, the poster was refering to Africa, where we have heard since day one how they will all die off yet their population actually seems quite stable...
The article states that there are many other methods of transmission (in Africa) than sexual ones, but that homo sex is an essential and pervasive component of transmission.
Read the article again (and maybe some of the many links) and you will see that this isn't only about sex (in Africa), but because of many unique social and climatological conditions (in Africa)
hence, the title of the referenced Why is HIV So Prevalent in Africa?
Please read it again
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