Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:28:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: Racism & genes - moon


Perhaps it's just me but I had immense difficulty
understanding your post. Perhaps you can expand on
some points.

You wrote:

> my eg. was the social terror of HIV (in North
> America) and the sacrifice: 
> homosexuals ....

I fail to see how homosexuals can by any stretch of
the imagination be described as sacrifices. To whom
are they being sacrificed? HIV, society?

The second point which I failed to get :
 
>Sheldrake, so maligned about his concept of the
> morphogenic resonance, in 
> which the field evokes outcomes....is beginning to
> find some respect among 
> genetic researchers because they are finding the
> dance between the DNA & 
> RNA is affected by the field conditions in which it
> occurs....

'field conditions' is a term commonly used in subjects
like ecology, sociology and even psychology. However,
in the world of molecular biology (where DNA and RNA
are studied) one can control the conditions exactly.
Of course you can play with experimental conditions,
thus obtaining different outcomes but there is noting
exceptional about that.
So it is difficult to work out from what you wrote,
the point you were trying to make.

You also go on to say:
> I guess I am saying that the sociocentricities or
> egocentricity of 
> perspectives that require a victim to absorb their
> own anxieties about the 
> dangers of the field which they inhabit.....is the
> same as human sacrifice 
> throughout the ages....
> 
Again I have read the sentence several times and I
fail to get it. The analogies you make to human
sacrifice seem very stretched to me. However, if there
is an obvious central theme that I am missing here,
then I would love to learn what it is. 



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