Firstly, I'd like to aplogize for not getting back here sooner...I'm sorry. I had taken a bit of a break from my 'desk work' here, and then did some other things first.
There had been a little off topic stuff that I had, at least, read, but though to myself..."Hey, it's the Holiday Season...let it go...."
And with that, I will go into the presentation I had promised.
Scorpion da black san, I do hope that you will (if you haven't already) carefully go over some main points that are found in the thread
Love, Marriage, and Sex-what is the truth?!. Since the objective is to learn, I strongly suggest that you print out the certain pages with a few major posts. The posts which I reason will be most essential for a proper understanding on this matter as understood by the major players at the moment, are post numbers 1, 2, 12, 13, 15, 30, 33, 38, 39. Please do read them, and not only that, but meditate on (study) them, and connect the dots.
POINT NUMBER ONE
homosexuality is a mental state of mind, not biological!
anything mental can be changed....
so why not strait the mental disorder rather than accepting it
(from post #99 on page 4 of this thread)
The above is the proposition that we are looking at, and testing here. For that reason, let's first break down the several units of the proposition, in order to see what is being stated:
homosexuality is a mental state of mind, not biological!
Here we will see that 'mental' and 'mind' merge meanings because 'mental' is of necessity of the 'mind.' We therefore have the clause, '
homosexuality is a state of mind.' We will also find that the words
mental state, and mind are interchangeable with that of 'brain,' therefore we could equally reason that the expression
state of mind equals 'brain state.' In conclusion, therefore, we have the equivalent statement:
Homosexuality is a state of brain.
Homosexuality, though well understood by all, should be looked at too, just to make all terms as clear as can be. 'Homo,' of course, came from the Greek and is rendered by the English 'same.' For the state that sex is genetically, please see posts numbers 30 and 33 in the thread on Love, Sex, and Marriage. (for in the word 'homosexual,' the element 'sex' is referring to the state, rather than the act)
For the state that sex is biologically, part can be seen in those immediately above mentioned posts, and the rest will be brought out on this thread. This is because when we apply the epithet 'homosexual' to an animal we are indicating that the sexual attachment or drive of that animal is directed towards animals of that species (most usually) which are of the same genetical sex state--in that the animal has by the genetical XY, XX (among a few others such as XO, XXY, XYY, and even a rare XXXY, XYYY) mechanism developed the body parts of male or female, or both (in few cases).
We are effectively saying that when we look at the naturally visible body of that animal, we can see a sex state from the organs displayed. This is the genetic discription, and it is this discription alone that the term homosexual was built upon. This fact is due to the lack of understanding of the much finer nuances of the biological (chemical) states the differentiate sexual states biologically and by that very extension, neurologically.
We thus can arrive at the inferred and equivalent statement as being '
Having an attachment or a sex drive nature which focuses on members of the same genetical sex build is a state of brain.'
Homosexuality is. . . not biological.
This is the next part to look at. Of course, the subject of that clause is homosexuality, and the premise is that it is not biological. It will be found that the common dictionary explanation under that entry (biology, biological) lacks in that it does not go into the detail that will be found through the subdivisions under that general field in the pure and natural sciences.
There is no contest by or from those in the field that what is identified as being a biological matter, can be distinguished from being a genetical matter while all along, in the broadest usage of the term biological, we can say that the whole of any animal is biological.
It is important to understand this difference in word usage, and while I wish not to charge the author of the quote we are looking at as not having paid attention to that matter, I would yet like to point out this difference here.
In this field, the matters of hormonal effects and precursors and receptors and all that such entail, are placed under the 'biological' heading, and not under the 'genetical' heading. The portion of the brain that is developed by and built due to these chemical processes in the embryo are also attributed to the biological factor, and the portions of the brain over and against this 'hardwired' portion, and which are controlled by and operate due to the hormonal presence are also placed under the biological sector.
We can then see that the interchangeable clause we are now looking at becomes, '
Having an attachment of sex drive which focuses on members of the same genetical sex build is not biological. Due to the contradiction which then has been brought to light, as a matter of definiton of terms (at least at the moment), we will find that the statement is false.
This is true in that we have seen that brain elements which bring on the mental portion of sex drive and sex thinking is neurological, therefore biological rather than genetical. However, this being true of the statement at the moment, as regards the terms used, it is true as regards the what is actually known in the field too. I will next go into that.