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So much to unpack here - This would appear to be redundancy - sort of like mixing flour and water together and then adding another mixture of flour and water to the original batter. Although this does happen, for example my ex-hubby is european (French-German mix ) ...Together we have a set of twin girls. Although they may display his phenotype - they carry the mtDNA of the first woman of our lineage from East Africa 80,000 - 104,000 years ago. From what I've read, so far using rCRS and RSRS (revised Cambridge Reference Sequence & Reconstructed Sapiens Reference Sequence ) to determine ancestry - the difference between someone from East Africa and someone from Europe is where there's a mutation point (s). Since women carry the mitochondrial DNA and passes to their offspring (girls and boys)- the mtDNA has proven to be more reliable in determining origin and movement of a population because the Y-DNA mutates much more quickly than mtDNA because its housed in the testicles. Speaking of which , there's no disagreement between the NOI and the western Human Genome project researchers. Both agree Y was found in either Asia or Africa but because it Y mutates so quickly pinning down first man was rough but both agree on Asiatic/African description. Y, however is not as old as the first woman they found - which is really interesting LOL...but not far-fetched because speciation began with X and then Y... By the way, I never toss out theories. I look for evidence... there's evidence of the NOI hypothesis. I can share some links I've found using "western science". That is, if you want to get totally mindf-cked and go down that rabbit hole. Needless to say, there's scientific evidence that we were all women before we split into women and men... but that's another story. @Pioneer1 I did answer but you and I speak a different language ... sort of like what @Troy just referenced when he compared debate vs fight ... I will be mindful of that. But my family calls a debate "fighting" and we literally debate everything... even the content of the cereal lol But I digress. "Hitting on" is physical in my dictionary - it assumes that I'm an object to be obtained. I didn't have that problem and neither did the Asian Flight Attendant I was with, meant Italian men didn't objectify us ... I used her as a measuring stick. If they didn't "hit" on me ...that didn't necessarily mean they weren't brutish - but when I noticed they didn't "hit" on her either, then I assumed they had respect for women. Same as how they are here in the states. Every Italian men I've dealt with or dated was respectful. Well, that is, except Victor in the 4th grade. He called me the N-Word.

LOL I don't view debating as fighting. But you raise an interesting point @Mel Hopkins, many people, and I believe the majority of women, fall into the category of viewing debating as fighting. I view a fight as an activity with the deliberate intent to cause someone else harm. I few a debate as an opportunity to become enlightened or to enlighten someone else. Of course debates can devolve into fights, but again that is a debate devolving, not what it is. I tend to like people I can disagree with and debate without fighting about it. If the person you are debating is insecure they tend to take your disagreement as a personal affront. Similarly, if you don't respect the person you are debating you will view them as dumb and you definitely won't learn anything from them. Everyone has something to teach us. It can be tricky to walk the tightrope between debate and fight. For example, I know I can say something to that is hyperbolic, or make a personal jab, to @Pioneer1 in a debate and it will roll off his back, while someone else will take personally and want to fight about it. Sometimes who just have to know when to be quiet too. There is a time and place for every debate. I like think here on Cyniques Corner it is always time to debate

Here is a trend that I noticed regarding us of AALBC.com since the website's upgrade: engagement is much higher and page views for 2017 are on track to a record high. I plan to blog about this in the near future to provide more insight. But this is great news and bodes well for the future of this website and websites and indie websites in general. The graph below shows the detail behind AALBC.com last half million pages view. This snap shot is from this summer which is historically the slowest period for website traffic (winter the busiest season). The biggest change are the "Pages / Session" which tells you who many pages are viewed which someone visits the website. If you compare this number to the charts provided above yiu can see that the number of pages viewed per session is up by more than 100%-- people are looking at more than twice as many pages per visit. Also of note is the Bounce Rate, for the period shown it is 35.58%. This is the percentage of people who visit a page but leave without looking at any other pages. This number is much better than it has been historically. In fact, for the the month of July the pages per session is over 5 and the bounce rate is under 7%! This is, if I must say so myself, a remarkable achievement given the very hostile environment I have to operate in. Now I KNOW Google can snatch this away and anytime. In fact if you look carefully, and the graphs of the bounce rate and pages per session, you will see relative abrupt changes. This is usually reflective of a Google algorithm change. Now in this instance this change was in AALBC.com's favor, but it very easily could have gone the other way.

Naw the P is on some next level type shit. He is in a class by himself.

@Pioneer1 I have never once needed to touch a single thing Cynique has ever posted. She brings a great deal of value to the site, and in turn our lives, with her contributions here. You really should be on you hands and knees thanking whoever you worship that you occupy the same space-time continuum as Cynique.

LOL @Cynique your recoiling at Christians like Pence is the work of a demon in you. Heeel her! @Mel Hopkins, I don't recall if I had a debate or any one on thoughts being matter. But for what it is worth if you'd like to fire one up I'm game ;-) I don't think thoughts are matter being made up of atoms. But since man simply does not know what the vast majority of the material that makes up the universe is composed of, perhaps we can't know what thoughts are made up of. Is there any proof that thoughts can exist beyond our physical being or outside a suitably powerful computer?