Warmongering and latent homosexuality

[Diana Moon Glampers]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Meet_the_Spartans

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Most men are latent homosexuals, I think I read that somewhere. I don't know. But I think I did, the thought did not arise to my mind, but when I read it I felt it to be true for me.

I think heterosexuality is a choice for me, nothing to do with morality, just matter of choice. Of intellectual curiosity

[mtmynd]

A while back I was watching Charlie Rose and he had for a guest Tom Ford, a successful fashion designer, etc. Charlie brought up the fellow's homosexuality and he calmly said he has had several women but always loved men, ever since he could remember. He didn't love women the same way he loved men.

I guess that's the ultimate answer to why someone is gay/lesbian... it's that they love the same sex, and always have.

There is a choice of acting, but there really is no choice of the heart, so to speak... one loves what they love and have always loved, denial be damned. Whatcha gonna do..?

btw: that link couldn't be any more bizarre... could it?

[SadLuckDame]

I find I've fallen in love many times with certain women, they are beyond beautiful, I've not desired to undress them, but to keep them in my arms...that's special. Anyway, it has nothing to do with sex, and everything to do with love.

That was an odd movie.

[stilltrucking]

Two-year-olds at risk from 'gender-bending' chemicals, report says• EU council urged to look at cumulative effect
Campaigners fear controls will not be tough enough


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/06/health-eu

I like that the Guardian article about gender bender chemicals had a banner ad for a weed killer. Nice bit of irony I suppose.

Toxic Waters
Debating How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/us/23 ... ml?_r=2&hp

[one of those jerks]

Learning From the Sin of Sodom

The head of World Vision in the United States, Richard Stearns, begins his fascinating book, “The Hole in Our Gospel,” with an account of a visit a decade ago to Uganda, where he met a 13-year-old AIDS orphan who was raising his younger brothers by himself.

“What sickened me most was this question: where was the Church?” he writes. “Where were the followers of Jesus Christ in the midst of perhaps the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time? Surely the Church should have been caring for these ‘orphans and widows in their distress.’ (James 1:27). Shouldn’t the pulpits across America have flamed with exhortations to rush to the front lines of compassion?


The American view of evangelicals is still shaped by preening television blowhards and hypocrites who seem obsessed with gays and fetuses. One study cited in the book found that even among churchgoers ages 16 to 29, the descriptions most associated with Christianity were “antihomosexual,” “judgmental,” “too involved in politics,” and “hypocritical.”


In one striking passage, Mr. Stearns quotes the prophet Ezekiel as saying that the great sin of the people of Sodom wasn’t so much that they were promiscuous or gay as that they were “arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” (Ezekiel 16:49.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opini ... of.html?em

[SadLuckDame]

My arms are only so big. I mean I won't turn anyone away I can do something for, if they need food, $10 bucks or whatever I got I'll give, but only think I can hold so many at a time. I try and I've the want-to, it's just overwhelming to think of how many there really are in need...it's a big number, unending number, cause new ones jump in line each second.

I mean, I know what you're saying and I agree that churches get so caught up in their own communities and communion or most do, and they lose sight of what light is--they get warped and consumed in judging, finding distaste and everything, but their lights...and I've no church 'family' to speak of, but when I was young, my Dad and a few men really had caring hearts, they'd truly help needy kids...not so much their families but for the kids by taking them skating, big puppet show productions, baseball games and candy, pizza, hot dogs (all stuff these ragamuffin kids never saw) and they drove this burgundy painted church bus into some dark holes, I loved everything about that, I loved that they got to eat ice-cream and hit a ball, or find out if they'd a knack on roller-skates.

[stilltrucking]

mnaz wrote:

"God is unquestionable," but left it at "The Answer," since this piece more about doctrine, the "God-in-a-Box" syndrome, the "politicized and hijacked God," which as many around here know, is something I harp on occasionally. Religion as a path, as experience, in beautiful tribute to a higher power, in good will and understanding is not the problem. And yes, "Satan" has been used for many a moon by various doctrine pushers as leverage against those who disagree ("they're being blinded by Satan). Same thing with "Anti-Christ," as I seem to recall reading somewhere. Thanks.

http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=18202

There is a Hole in Our Gospel

In Haiti, more than half of food distributions go through religious groups like World Vision that have indispensable networks on the ground. We mustn’t make Haitians the casualties in our cultural wars.

A root problem is a liberal snobbishness toward faith-based organizations. Those doing the sneering typically give away far less money than evangelicals. They’re also less likely to spend vacations volunteering at, say, a school or a clinic in Rwanda.

[mnaz]

A root problem is a liberal snobbishness toward faith-based organizations. Those doing the sneering typically give away far less money than evangelicals. They’re also less likely to spend vacations volunteering at, say, a school or a clinic in Rwanda.

Any "liberal" worth his/her salt does not sneer at genuine philanthropic/charitable/relief organizations and efforts that are Christian-based. Such endeavors do not represent a politicized, hijacked "God-in-a-Box;" such endeavors are more "Christ-like" (as the Christian faith should be). It's one of the reasons (probably the main one) I could not fully reject religion in the wake of "9/11," as I sat out on various mesas and pondered the prospect.

"We mustn't make Haitians the casualties in our cultural wars."

I'm not sure what that means exactly, but of course. We shouldn't make Iraqis victims in our cultural wars. We shouldn't make Americans victims in our cultural wars. We shouldn't make anyone victims in cultural wars. Easier said than done at times? Well perhaps, but the principle is sound.

[stilltrucking]

Mnaz I am chagrined {i am going to have to google chagrin for spelling and meaning to see if it is my best word choice.)

What chagrins me is I did not put a link to that quote so I can consider the source. I know that during Katrina a lot of aid was coming from the churches, but how do I know that? Saw it on Fox News?

Well you know I liked that poem a lot, I called it a magic carpet ride, not sure how that came across to you. Your level of abstraction, your long geologic perspective, compelled me to just follow in your words. I don't know what is more pleasurable to me than to loose myself in a writers words.

Nobody here on studio eight that I enjoy bandying words with more than you.

Let me find the article again and I will get back to you.

You know I been thinking about that long thread about Obama's Quiet Revolution and somebody talking about the problems that capitalists face that us proles don't have to deal with. Yescapitalists must bear the white man's burden and drink bottled wather while the rest of us are chemically castrated by te Association of Chemical Capitalists. Bethcha my grass is greener than yours. Don't mind me tonight, I been smoking green grass again

[stilltrucking]

ok it was

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: February 27, 2010

I don't know much about him I don't know nothing about World Vision. I don't know nothing about Richard Stearns, I know nothing "but I will tell you something."

Because

Tiger got to hunt
bird got fly
man got to...
Book of Bokonon

[stilltrucking]

fur lined outrage

Just my outrage about everything I guess, thinking our problems will all be over when repressed sexuality stops being sublimated as religion.

In the mean time the invisible hand of the market place could be our long term salvation when little boys stop playing soldier and begin playing house.

God all mighty
I am stoned
this all seems so brilliant to me I feel like Ignatius J. Reilly

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one."

[mtmynd]

In the mean time the invisible hand of the market place could be our long term salvation when little boys stop playing soldier and begin playing house.

good line.

[stilltrucking]

One of the things I am hoping for from Obama's quiet revolution is replacing the Bush appointed corporate hacks that took over the EPA.