I like to answer the entity of the posts I get but have to cut some short here as I have a headache that is making me tired and unable to think properly. Sorry about that. If they are important to you just repost them and I will answer them later.
I appreciate that. I get a lot of migraines myself. They can be quite annoying and debilitating.
How did you know that? Do I give my age away in my posts.
No, no. I just find that a lot of times in these “good old days” type of discussions, people are usually referring to the 1950s.
You said "the way that some Christians or some Muslims do when it comes to gay people. That behavior serves to perpetuate institutional or structural violence." The other side of the story is that not all homosexuals are angels and can be equally as badly behaved.
Well sure, but all human beings are like that – some are good, some are bad. That doesn’t really change the point though.
Not enough to make me cry.
Okay good. I’m not into making people cry.
I have two very good friend who I have the greatest respect and admiration for. Both are in their eighties and gay, however, they say that they have never had anal sex. I asked what else they did and the answer was quite surprisingly astounding to me, and perfectly acceptable. Not perverted or weird in anyway. I had never thought of it until he told me, but it changed my opinion on homosexuality. You do not have to have anal sex. There are ways to have a perfectly fulfilling sex life without debasing yourself in sexual sin. I love these two guys, who have been together now for many years, yet they never got married. I believe I will see them, without sin, in the afterlife. If I were gay then I would want to meet someone like them. Really nice and sincere people, in fact, you would not even think that they were gay.
This is kind of the point. If two people of the same sex love each other and want to spend a life together, nobody should have a problem with that and nobody really has a right to say they can’t.
We all have different views on what we think is perverted, anyway. Somebody might think their relationship is perverted, whether they have anal sex or not. I’m glad you’re not one of those people.
Well, I hope not, just kidding. I don't really know. It is not mentioned in scripture so I guess it is not. Having said that, the dangers of oral sex are on a par with anal sex, so maybe it is. Sorry if I am a bit vague on it but I don't really know and I have never given it much thought or reasoning to be able to give a reasonable coherent answer.
Fair enough. That’s an honest answer.
Interesting. Yours is a different view than most people I have come across.
I do not believe that there is a single cause. I think there is a multiplicity of factors, which would explain you spectrum theory.
It doesn’t appear that there is a single “cause.” It looks like it involves multiple processes.
It’s not
my spectrum theory … but it does seem to make sense.
Please see my experience with my elderly gay friends
Noted.
I have not taken a survey or walked the street monitoring social behavior, however, I do read the news, research it on the internet with both showing a marked decline in our social interaction and behavior.
In what ways?
The world is now totally corrupted.
The world has been corrupt for a long time now, especially among those with power. It’s not a new thing. Think about how kings and queens and popes used to behave; and all on “divine authority” to do whatever they wanted. They’d have people murdered for personal or political gain, witches and heretics were tortured and murdered, wars were fought for power, authority and prestige. And long before that people were stoning people to death (including children), raping and pillaging neighbouring tribes and stealing their virgins to keep for themselves. Women had basically no right at all until well into the twentieth century in the western world. Black people had no rights in the US until the 1960s even though they were freed from slavery a hundred years earlier. If you were gay or mentally retarded or suffered from a mental disorder you were viewed as rubbish until the early twentieth century.
I’m not sure who would be worse off now than at most times in the past.
We do not even really know who is running the show. Look at the Belderberg Group, The New World Order, 911 inconsistencies, The Bohemian Grove, John F Kennedy's mysterious magic bullet, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, The federal reserve, capitalism, democracy, logistics exploitation, Iraq the Illuminati and Freemasonry, the Patriot Act, the FDA, the Pharmaceutical industry, and on and on and on. You may say, but they are conspiracy theories, however, there is seldom any smoke without fire.
I don’t want to totally dismiss this, but I get a little more skeptical when people bring up conspiracy theories.
Yes, that is bound to be a factor in ones appraisal of the past, however, we become more objective as we grow older so those factors are taken into consideration.
Of course that will be a factor, there’s not really a way around it. I don't think we do actually get increasingly more objective with age. I do think we become more rigid and averse to change and more stuck in our ways.
I grew up in the 1980s and I had a blast as a kid. Everything seemed perfect to me. Of course, I had no idea that I was living during a terrible recession smack in the middle of the Cold War.
That was a dreadfully
outrageous affair indeed that doesn't bear thinking about, that human beings could do that to another human being. You would not treat an animal like that. Disgusting and an embarrassment on our society for allowing it to happen.
Indeed it was. Gay people are clearly much better off in the UK now than they were in the 1950s.
Again, I am embarrassed for mankind that they are capable of such behavior. I agree wholeheartedly with you, however, I am not claiming that the 50s were utopias, just that they were more morally astute.
So I am.
So I guess I’m wondering what you mean by “more morally astute.”
No doubt you can see the depth to which sex permeates society. One can no longer turn on the television without finding a program that has sexual undertones. Magazines are filled with stories, photos and features that would shock those of past generations. There is now also the Internet, offering a veritable buffet of perversions.
I tend to be more concerned about the amount of violence that permeates our society and our media.
In the world today evil is not so apparent because it has become clandestine in nature. The diseased society is mor cunning, conniving, underhanded and duplicitous.
I’m not so sure that is true. People have always been cunning, conniving, underhanded and duplicitous.
Having said that, our inner cities are rampant with crime and anti social behavior. Elderly people fearing to leave their home in the dark, gang rape, theft, muggings,
I don’t think this is a new thing either. How well would you have fared growing up in any city in medieval Europe, for example?
drug abuse, gang cultures,
These things are a problem, and they are related both each other and the war on drugs.
Police State, Big Brother snooping,
Are you saying the UK is a police state? Imagine living in communist Russia or Nazi-occupied Germany or in a feudal system in the middle ages.
Child abuse is escalating,
In some parts of the ancient world is used to be common practice to sacrifice babies and children to god(s). The ancient Greeks and Romans used to abandon deformed or otherwise unwanted children out in the elements to die. I’m not saying child abuse isn’t a problem that should be eradicated but it seems like children are a lot safer now than they once were in our past. Not to mention that we now have avenues we can take to help children who are being abused.
Syphilis used to be a big problem. STDS have been around for a very long time.
police corruption, deception, dishonesty in our government and places of authority, persecution of the sick and afflicted by those who are supposed to care for us, pedophilia on an ever increasing scale, promiscuity among children, rape, murder, an increase in child pregnancies and abortions, a lack in moral values, TV that desensitizes our children and parents, Cyber bullying, voyeurism, Criminal damage.
Pedophilia used to be an accepted practice in some parts of the ancient world. It certainly is not now and we now also recognize it as a crime. I don’t know that you can say incidences of pedophilia are on the rise.
Rape and murder have been around for as long as humans have occupied the planet. It was much more rampant in the past than it is now where we prosecute such actions as crimes.
If you think TV or the internet desensitizes children, we now have parental controls we can use to regulate what our children watch and look up. Or you could just supervise your children.
