On Jul 11, 2005, at 10:15 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: >> No, of course not, it's genetic, not religious. Since the >> Ashkenazi overclocking gene tends to create people with >> high verbal comprehension and high verbal IQ it's not unusual >> to witness arguments over linguistic and verbal minutiae even >> if the original speaker/writer never intended that level of >> precision. As far as I know it is not caused by your religious >> preference. > > It seems to be a description of a type of behavior -- > overreacting to perceived insults that may not have > been intended and may not have even existed -- that > has been tied to a particular genetic mutation, one > that interestingly tends to appear in people with > otherwise high intelligence: > > "In this group the payoff outweighed the trouble, > while in every other human group it did not. We > have found the gene (in 1997), which codes for an > ATP-binding protein, but as yet I don't believe > that we know exactly how it causes trouble or what > it does normally. But I'll hazard a guess: the change > accelerates some brain system tied to cognitive > functioning - nearly redlines it, leaves it vulner- > able to common insults in a way that can cause > spectacular trouble. You might compare to over- > clocking a chip. Sometimes you get away with it, > sometimes you don't." > > This is just from the first web page I found on > the subject. I'm sure there is more out there if > anyone -- of any religion -- suspects that they > might have this gene and is interested in reading > up on it.
I always wondered what would happen if such a person repeated the Saraswati mantra until it bore siddhi? Good or bad or both? It would be interesting anyways. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
