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Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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Re: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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I always find it fascinating when science catches up to the Bible. The Bible clearly articulates some form of generational “pass-through” for the sins of the father passing to the children. While I do think it largely refers to a spiritual judgement, it’s hard to ignore the real-world examples of abuse that always seem to repeat themselves without a huge effort on the part of, someone, usually the child after they’ve…

Where does the Bible say that the sins of the father are passed to the children? Ezekiel 18 says exactly the opposite. Romans 5 doesn't say we inherit Adam's sin but that we inherit the consequences of Adam's sin. Exodus 20:5 says the iniquity of the fathers pass down for three or four generations. This is not referring to the sin itself, but to the effects of the sin of the children who grow up watching their parent…

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Re: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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Off-topic completely now, but for your information, one last question: does your opinion cover patents who have blood test results showing Lyme, and one or more known coinfections like Bab, Bart, (all known, and treatable bacterial infections), or are you another Reddit regurgitation expert?

i think this isn’t going to be a productive conversation regardless of what i say. take care

Re: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off-topic completely now, but for your information, one last question: does your opinion cover patents who have blood test results showing Lyme, and one or more known coinfections like Bab, Bart, (all known, and treatable bacterial infections), or are you another Reddit regurgitation expert?

i think this isn’t going to be a productive conversation regardless of what i say. take care

We’re on the same page.

Re: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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assuming this is true, perhaps it's best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self? some possible times - right before college, right after college, after you meet someone you think you'd marry (but before you do), after marriage. seems like a neat premise for a sci fi novella.

Like restoring to a particular save point in a game after you've done something stupid.

Re: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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assuming this is true, perhaps it's best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self? some possible times - right before college, right after college, after you meet someone you think you'd marry (but before you do), after marriage. seems like a neat premise for a sci fi novella.

That'd be a great basis for a controlled experiment.

Nobel prize might be waiting for two sets of octomom same-egg offspring with compatible genders that join together to have n=8 firstborn children which are conceived at same date under the same conditions (no alcohol, no ongoing infections, etc.), and the pregnancy period is spent together.

It will definitely need 8 scientist relationships, a lot of energy and money.

Re: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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> nicotine is significantly more harmful than caffeine “ Significantly ” is an opinion. It’s more toxic by weight, yes. Messes with vascular more than caffeine. Both are an excellent way to screw up heart health. > let’s not get started on the CFS stuff, treatments for functional disorders are often placebo-resembling. Personally haven’t needed or wanted to use nicotine, but I have recovered from an array of chronic…

> Both are an excellent way to screw up heart health. Plain black coffee has, somewhat surprisingly, been repeatedly demonstrated to be very healthy - with substantial reductions in all-cause mortality as well as the chances of developing cardiovascular disease. I tend to live somewhat spartanly in terms of consumption, and wanted to drop my coffee habit which looks something like this [1], but looking up the data on…

Coffee ≠ caffeine, despite the coy conflations in office memes.

If you’re grinding your own (mycotoxins are real), hard to find a cleaner healthier form of caffeine than coffee!

Lots of morning-and-day soda and energy drink consumers. More than we even see, assuredly.

Re: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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assuming this is true, perhaps it's best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self? some possible times - right before college, right after college, after you meet someone you think you'd marry (but before you do), after marriage. seems like a neat premise for a sci fi novella.

I think trying to "tune" your kids in any way is asking to be disappointed. My three kids could not be more different and they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc. If "microRNA" profiles have any influence, I would wager it's very small.

On the other hand, you sometimes get identical twins who share every random tick and tendency and finish each others thoughts.

Re: Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

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Maybe we should stop viewing DNA as source code or I guess more importantly as the sole source of heritability. It's clear that parts of DNA are somehow variably expressed. Different sections of DNA are "unrolled" depending on how you live your life, and unrolled DNA is part of an entire complex. Now it seems parts of that complex are heritable.

Just a guess. I'm not a biologist.

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