On Gender

Today, we started our mandatory academic angst phase. In other news, welcome to AmCon.
Questions were asked, mostly along the terms of "Why do people say that something is the natural way to do things?" What is natural? My personal answer after the break.
In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, there is a discussion. When Luke returns to Dagobah aboard the Incom T-65 X-wing starfighter along with the heroic astromech R2-D2 droid, in order to resume his Jedi Training with former Grand Master of the Jedi Order Yoda, he arrives to find Master Yoda weakened and dying as a result of having used the Force to heal Jorj Cardas after his sickness at the hands/tentacles/....something.....of the Kathol Rift Dwellers, specifically the Aing-Tii Force Monks. Although they had taught him the techniques of Flow Walking (a kind of Force-enhanced time travel) and Teleportation (which, mysteriously enough, does not utilize the Force). Yoda told Luke that his training is almost complete, all he has left to do is to face and defeat Darth Vader, the former Anakin Skywalker (I could go on another tangent, but I do not consider Clone Wars to be canon). Luke asks Yoda if Vader is indeed his father. Yoda says yes, he indeed is. You people should already know this.
Anyway, after Yoda dies and becomes one with the Force, Luke comes out of Yoda's hut, leans against the S-foils of the X-Wing, turns to Artoo, and says that he "cannot do this", referring to killing the man he had recently learned was his father. Obi-Wan Kenobi's Force-ghost shows up and gives his famous point of view speech.
"Why didn't you tell me, Ben? You told me Vader killed my father."
"What I told you was true, from a certain point of view."
From a certain point of view, indeed.
"The truths we hold so tightly to, depend greatly upon a person's point of view."
Therefore, my answer to the question before the break, Why do people say that something is the natural way of doing things?: Perspective.


We also discussed the social implications of virginity being an important thing. This, I bet, can be traced to the original authorship of the book of Leviticus in the Old Testament of that big book that several people here are so fond of quoting. The Bible, I think it is called. Now, I can go into great detail about what I know as a result of being a social outcast, but there is a limit to the amount of space I can use on this website (several terabytes). That, and I do not want to go Zaeed Massani on this blog. I've included enough Sci-Fi references as it is.