I believe the Catholic church now believes in evolution...which now makes me wonder why we even have Pope in modern times. Any theist can apply their deity to any scientific concept that doesn't outright discredit them. All you have to say you is, "God/Allah/Buddha/etc. made it happen."
Basically anything I'm not fully or near fully informed in, because then it'd just be my opponent educating me and that's no good if it begins to get heated. As long as I'm informed, anything goes.
They're doing a pretty shitty job with their normal pistols and stun guns. Before we start issuing better guns, we need to issue better police. Then again, I don't even live in America so I'm only going on the news I see on the internet.
Well I am feeling better than I have in a long while. I think I am getting close to finding my mojo again.
That's good. I know little about you but you seem like someone who deserves to feel good.
When I think of special, I think of everyday interactions with my daughter, my sister and my two nieces.
Well I guess that is special when it makes you so happy. They must be great people.
Besides that, I made what I think to be some pretty good progress on my Free Press Bible project
The project sounds like a nice project from what I understand. You seemed to have put a lot of work into it and it seems to have come off really nicely. How long have you been working on this project?
How have you been?
I'm curious as to why you ask, since I haven't seen you ask anyone else on this topic anything. I'm thinking it may be because I'm the only one on this topic that you don't know but I may be wrong. Well, I've been doing okay. Been having a few problems this year but I guess not every period in life can be nice. I mean, that's what makes life interesting right? The mix of the bad, good and neutral.
Do you have any dreams you are still trying to realize?
Well, I'm trying to prepare for college. I'll be trying to get a bachelor's in musical theatre or performing arts. Money is tight but I do believe I'll get in soon. A Buddhistic law is comforting me right now. Do nothing. I believe it says that anything that will happen has already happened, therefore its best not to worry about anything. If its meant to happen, it will and has. After that, just the usual get a job, get married, have children, grow old, retire. I mean, except there'll be a lot of things between them and I'm probably not going to marry until I'm in my early to mid 30's, since I want to live and learn as much as I can before I settle down.
Did you have a divorce or were you never married? What did you want to do when you were younger that you haven't accomplished? Any advice you'd like to give to me, a person much younger than yourself?
How've you been this past month?
Anything special happen?
How many children do you have?
What exactly is your definition of a loser? My answer depends on the definition you're using. But if I'm using my definition, then yes, losers have no place in the world.
When its totally not under their control or its necessary, yes.
Do you think it's impossible that some Christians believe Jesus was more of less biblically misrepresented?
But then how could you think Jesus was any different from what he was in the bible if the bible is the only place his works were recorded in. I'm assuming its the only place you can find Jesus' life story. If one does think he was different, one would need some kind of other reference book to base one's theories on.
Maybe each and every persons religion is somewhat unique
You've got somewhat of a point, but for two peoples' religions to be the same there has to be some connection. That's where we get all the sects in Christianity. If it strays too much from the original idea, its a different religion. All of the sects in Christianity deem the bible to generally be true, just different interpretations.
I suppose they could be shown by example and it wouldn't require parroting verses from any bible
Shown? One would not be a part of a religion just because their role model has good values that may have came from that religion and I'm certainly sure they wouldn't join because they saw strange rituals pertaining to their role model's religion that they know nothing about, that is, unless they're truly mindless sheeple. Having good values and being a good role model has nothing to do with a religion.
You can't be a Christian and not believe in the bible. It'll be a different religion. If not for the bible or someone speaking the words of the bible, how would one even know how to be a Christian?
Definitely, but in conjunction with educating the public on overpopulation. Its not working in China because china isn't so friendly towards females. Laws must be adapted to fit the need of the population of the country, not just thrown into law and expected to thrive like what happens with most laws in most countries.
I think this phenomena is largely overrated, and at the same time promoted by the said agenda
Do you mean transgenderism or the issue of transgenders and bathrooms?
this law can also cause psychological damage to non - transgender children, who, as you understand, are the overwhelming majority.
How so?
The facts are, 95% of all assailants are men, and 32% of all victims are boys. Given the fact that about 4% of men are gay, there is a significantly higher rate of pedophilia among gays, than among straights.
Don't they do background checks on the troop leaders before they hire them? I'm sure a paedophile would have a history of paedophilia before he had the requirements to apply for the job of troop leader. Also, I'm thinking a closeted homosexual would be more likely to be a paedophile than an open homosexual. It gives them more cover if they're not even associated with sexuality toward males. The out homosexuals should be less likely to be a paedophile for this reason, people would expect him to be a paedophile.
Its psychiatric status was removed by APA, but I think this organization is dubious to say the least. Please check the following links, and try not to pay attention to the sites domain, the information speaks for itself:
I do not believe the people who have been "cured" of homosexuality are actually cured. I believe they are basically brain washed into thinking that sexual interactions with the same sex is disgusting and, as a result, try to stay away from it all together. I've read of many stories where these psychiatrists used brainwashing (for lack of a better word) methods to "cure" homosexuals of their homosexuality. It seems its all based on the fact that the human brain can be taught to believe anything, one just has to find out how. Increasing self hatred to the point of total, irreversible disgust seems to be the name of the game, a bit like the catholic church and left handed people. Keep in mind that I've never met someone who's done this procedure and I've never done it myself, though I intend to try just to see how it goes.
Are you sure they are psychologically and emotionally damaged, only because of hate? In my country, I did not see much hate towards gays, until they started trying to copy the Western gay agenda.
I can only speak about what I've seen in my own country. Maybe it is only when they began speaking out that they started receiving clearly visible hate in your country. In my country, homophobia is the norm so its not really viewed as hate or even noticed by those who do not experience it.
You've got a point. Though I do agree on some of the achievements of the LGBT movement, I do believe they have an agenda. Thank you for not equating the people categorised within a movement, to the actual movement. The movement is very pushy and I do think a number of things they push for have underlying motives. Regarding a few of their achievements, all of the ones you've named do seem for the better of the LGBT community, not so much the movement's agenda.
The toilet law only applies to transsexual persons, I'm assuming. That's fine, since the gender of that person is not their sex. It would cause them psychological damage if they had to use the gender bathroom that they didn't identify with.
I'm not familiar with the forced watching of gay porn incident. Could you educate me more on this?
There will be gay troop leaders regardless of if it is allowed or not. I'm assuming that law just allows openly gay troop leaders. Gay does not equate to paedophile, so I don't see the problem.
I do not agree with forcing hotel owners to service gays, but I'm guessing that came from how tired the LGBT were about not getting services just because of who they love or have intercourse with. I can see the motive was not so evil, but they do need to realise that its their choice because its their business.
Well, I understand outlawing psychiatrists that "deal" with homosexuality. I mean, its not a psychological disorder anymore, right? So why still have those who specialise in "getting rid" of it. I do still believe in choice so I do not agree with this either, unless the psychiatrists are pushing gays to "become" straight.
I completely do not agree with attacking Christian preachers for preaching against gays. Its their own religion and their own sermons based on their own opinions. I don't agree with this, however, I also completely understand. A lot of Christian and former Christian LGBT members have been hurt emotionally, psychologically and sometimes physically by the church. I, myself, have experienced the torment of growing up in a church and being made to go every Sunday to be told how I am going to hell for who I fall in love with and am sexually attracted to. I hated myself for years and tried everything I could possibly think of to "get rid" of my homosexuality. About 3 years of total self hatred and a suicide attempt later, I am absolutely fine with my sexuality. Though I am no longer hurt by the church's teachings, I get over things more easily than most other people I've met. Some people just don't let go of things quickly. So, yeah, that's not so evil either.
The public citing outlawing is another response to hate, so is the statistical lying, though I think that could have some underlying motives.
I believe the LGBT are being led by someone or some people with ulterior motives. The only way to stop these people from manipulating a group of people who are so psychologically and emotionally damaged that they can't see the manipulation is to stop the hate.
Its not racist in the slightest. I mean, if you grew up around Caucasians then that's fine. I'm black and I think the people I talk to online are white, by default. No big deal. No brainwashing needed. If you were this concerned about it, you're not racist.
Nah. Its the person's choice to go go to fast food restaurants. Don't make the restaurants suffer financially for the lack of control of the public.
Other than the birth defects, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I mean, I don't think incestuous marriage has a chance in the western world at the moment because of the current morals of western civilization. Maybe in Canada? I don't know. I see little problem with it than any other relationship.
I think they'll get work done regardless. I can't really debate this topic anyway because I know very little about it, but a very brief trip to google shows me that they use the umbilical cord and not the actual zygote now. At birth, the umbilical cord is stored and sent to science labs because they're rich in stem cells. That okay with you?
They're probably gonna get aborted anyway. Might as well use it for the betterment of mankind.
A nerd isn't necessarily intellectual. He's/She's academic. That's not gonna help much in a fight, if we're talking about fighting. There's also many different types of geeks, since a geek is more of a person who invests most of their time into one thing and are generally experts in that area and little else, like a drama geek or a tech geek. Given these definitions I'm using, the geek would win.
Kinda, I mean yes...kinda. Depends on your definition of "nothing" I guess. I mean, "nothing" used to encompass dark matter and that's a thing...isn't it? Or is it not?
Thank you. I try to be as open minded as possible to see from all points of view.
I understand what you're saying. Being a homosexual male myself, I am aware and slightly fearful of the diseases and health complications that come with homosexual intercourse. I will not be participating in much, if any, sexual activities you've named and/or eluded to. This, however, does not mean I do not condone these sexual practices. When done safely, certain "harmful" sexual practices are almost as safe as vaginal sex. Most people who practice these activities take the utmost care in the beforehand preparation. I do not believe that we have to ban these practices, but educate on them. I do believe a lot of the diseases spread through homosexual intercourse is done out of ignorance rather than the acts themselves. We can slow down the spread of these diseases by educating the masses about the dangers and how to safely practice them, because whether we ban it or not, its gonna be done anyway (by both heterosexuals and homosexuals). In fact, because its banned, it makes the sex all the more thrilling, which doesn't help your cause at all. I believe its named somewhere along the lines of "The Romeo and Juliet effect" or something like that.
I do agree on your views on incestuous marriage, though I only discussed sex, and not love unions. I see the complications in homosexual intercourse, but not in gay marriage. Care to share your views on that, as well?
Definitely reheat! I like steam reheating it instead of microwaving since microwaving kind of disgusts me.
