As the year draws to a close I'm sharing my favourite films, TV shows, books, quotes and memes from the year. Today's list is a collection of some facts and quotes gathered across a variety of articles, books and blogs I've read this year.
Facts/Stats:
From 'Testosterone' by Carole Hooven
- A man’s T levels are lower in engaged dads.
- T has been shown to rise in dads in response to a baby’s cry (perhaps because of a need to defend or protect)
- Across the globe twice as many women as men report that they aren’t particularly interested in sex.
- A dominant male in a hunter gatherer society commonly sired around 114 children
- The only example of exclusive homosexual behaviour in non human animals is the domestic sheep.
- Genghis Khan is likely responsible for the ancestry of 1/200 men.
- Women in UK and US who report being ‘low libido’/not overly interested in sex, is around 26-29%
- Women’s sexual preference and libido are more culturally contingent than men’s.
- Since 1904 in US and Canada around 10,000 people have been awarded a medal for extraordinary bravery for rescuing a civilian. 10% have been women.
- Harvey Weinstein’s movies had been nominated for 300 Oscar’s, and has been thanked more than almost anyone else in movie history ranking just after Steven Spielberg. 13 women accused him of sexual assault and harassment.
- Men have 10-20x as much T as women. Pubertal boys have 30x as much as girls their age.
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From 'Feminism Against Progress' by Mary Harrington
Between 1975 and 2015 the proportion of UK households with only one working parent almost halved, from 47% to 27%. In 2019 the ONS reported that over three-quarters of mothers with dependent children now work.________
Between 1989-2012 there were 3 reported mass killings attributed to hatred of women, since then there have been 12.________From '3 or More' by Andrew Bunt
Research suggest that acceptance and practice of polyamory and Consensual Non-Monogamy is growing. In the UK, 39% of adults think that humans are not naturally monogamous and 34% think that polyamory is morally acceptable. In America, only a little over half of adults (55%) say their ideal relationship is completely monogamous, with that figure being lowest among men and younger generations. A third of Americans believe that open marriages are an acceptable form of relationship.
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From 'Britain's Future is Pagan' by Tom Rowsell
The most recent census found that the number of Pagans in England and Wales had risen from 57,000 in 2011 to 74,000 — and that they cluster in Ceredigion, Cornwall and Somerset.___________
From a lecture by Iain McGilchrist
- By the time a baby is born it has shed 70% of its neurons. It goes on shedding, purring sorting, and it’s through that process that it produces something that has a degree of permanence.
__________From 'The Parasitic Mind' by Gad Saad
- Evolution has endowed us with mechanisms of behavioural adaptation… People in warmer climates tend to have spicier cuisines because spices offer anti-microbial protection against food borne pathogens which are more likely to be present in warmer climates. this demonstrates how cultural forms, national cuisine, serve as adaptive responses to biological challenges exposure to microbes.
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From 'The Making of Biblical Womanhood'
by Beth Allison-Barr
- The playmobil Martin Luther became the fastest selling playmobil figure in history. 34, 000 sold within first 72hrs.
- When the China inland mission called for two hundred volunteers, 70% of those who left for China the following year were women, and all but 4 were single.
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Quotes:
Natalie Williams
Recognising and acknowledging our sinfulness is good. But if we focus our attention there, we end up in the quicksand of condemnation. If we linger, we sink.
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Merited mercy is an oxymoron. If I had a right to it, or any claim on it at all, it would not be mercy.Abigail Shrier
‘Parenting isn’t a skill it’s a relationship.’________
When we refer to our own children by the labels the interlopers give us we allow these experts to downgrade how we see our daughters and sons.________
The tags and labels are occasionally useful for experts but for us they just get in the way; they are reductive and demeaning and they have absolutely no business in polluting our love.________
No winning head coach asks his players to consider there feeling at at half time because thinking about yourself shatters your ability to get things done.________
Pope Benedict XVI
The question remains. What did Jesus actually bring if not world peace, universal prosperity and a better world? What has he brought? The answer is very simple. God. He has brought God.
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Carl Jung:
Fanaticism is only found in individuals who are compensating secret doubts
Henry James:
Our ignorance is an ocean, our knowledge is a drop.
Gad Saad
Trigger warnings infantilise human resilience by coddling young adults into thinking that they do not possess the psychological strength to face life. Of course there are unique situations that require humane and gentle care… but the wholesale codifying of trigger warnings as a default policy is a grotesque over reach.
John Mark Comer
Children can be like monastic bells to remind you your time is not your own.________
Most people have a plan for their money (a budget), a plan for their time (a schedule), and all sorts of plans for their education, career, retirement, family, kids’ soccer team, gym, routine, and so on. But very few have a plan to be with Jesus and thoughtfully apprentice under him in such a way that over time they become the people who naturally do and say the kinds of things Jesus said and did.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer to a young couple on their wedding day:
Today you are young and very much in love and you think that your love can sustain your marriage. It can’t. Let your marriage sustain your love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one