Riverwind (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:05 pm
When I was on the castration drugs the thing I noticed was hot flashes, lots of them, one day at work it was the end of the day and we were all standing outside our cubes, when I got one of the most sever hot flashes ever, I break out in sweats so I grabbed a folder off my bosses desk and started fanning myself, and said,"damn, hot flashes, must be the change of life" everybody thought this was very funny and the hot flash passed, my boss asked me if I was OK and I said yes, 'wonder what caused that' she laughed and life went on without them even realizing that what I said was the truth.
So remember the truth is sometimes so fantastic and so wrong it will be cast out in favor of something else.
Good luck to you,
River
This thread "took a nap" before I joined the Archive last summer. From time to time, such a thread "wakes up," and is closed. This one is still open, so I shall toss in my 0.00 cents worth.
I am responding to both the comment quoted above and yesterday's Comment #30 by lance1972.
My experience informs me that what is scientifically demonstrably true can be so different from reality as defined by social consensus as to have resulted in finders of scientifically demonstrated truth which refutes socially mandated falsehoods, falsehoods which are part and parcel of the way of learning to recognize and understand newly identified, scientifically demonstrated truth. People taught, with "religious fervor" the falsehoods as though they were truths tend to act with hatred toward new scientific findings which challenge "established religious fervor.
If the prior paragraph reads like absurd nonsense, be glad, you are among the "normal people" of our contemporary world society. And be sad because the winds, they are a changing. Or not. Your choice?
I have indicated, more than once, in more than one thread, that my experience of about half of my life having been with typical male testosterone levels was of testosterone acting like a brain toxin, what I have referred to as a "brain fog."
Well, the study of biology led Barbara McClintoch to observe "jumping genes" and an article in the March, 2012, Scientific American describes how jumping genes (or somatic translocations) may account for significant contrasts in genotype-based phenotype contrasts, such as found with "identical twins" who are not genetically or phenotypically identical because of the effects of jumping genes on brain function and structure.
One or more jumping gene events sufficiently early in gestation would, in my view as a (I hope) genuinely competent biologist-bioengineer, have more than enough "capability" to have resulted in my having a normal male karotype and a brain that abhors testosterone.
Can I give an historical example of a scientific finding which resulted in its finder encountering socially originated "religious fervor" castigation? I think so. Galileo Galelei and "house arrest" and his seemingly coerced "confession."
For myself, my energy levels, in terms of practical physical work, are higher without testosterone than they were with it. Free of the "brain fog" effect I encountered with testosterone, I have done strenuous physical work, day after day, that I was (for whatever reason or reasons) unable to do while having typical testosterone levels.
Having accomplished my "testosterone-driven biological duty" (my wife's and my daughter?), I figured that dying while our daughter was very young from surgically preventable cancer would constitute an unconscionable (for me, if for no one else in an infinity of eternities) failure of fatherhood. My brother weht that way; I find his dying of cancer while having a grade-school age child was a dreadfully sad expeprience for that child.
You do not have a jumping gene condition and you need typical testosterone levels to function as well and I need low testosterone levels to function well. Hurray for both of us! You have less energy with low testosterone levels and a better experienced quality of life? Hurray!
You believe that other people have the right to define you contrary to your inner sense of self? Time for me to cry.
There is this observed biological phenomenon. It has a name. Biological Diversity. It has another name. Scientifically Demonstrable Reality. It has yet another name. Life.
