Sakura is good at rubbing the gay on people. In fact she's the number one cause of gay in Canada. I used to think it was maple syrup but its really Sakura.
*lol* Magic isn't dying. Its just not getting any better. MaRo's article on Monday sorta made me believe that Hasbro doesn't believe Magic's current player base is enough to sustain the game but for whatever reason won't give WoTC anymore money to market Magic. Hasbro's pockets are fairly deep and I wonder why I never see a Magic commercial outside Adult Swim. Magic's target audience isn't just watching Frisky Dingo, they also watch shows like One Tree Hill and Scrubs.
Blue, I daresay you're keeping away the gheys with your horrific puns.
Well what do you expect? Everything about me is whorrific.
...
Ok I'll stop
....maybe.
I do feel I scare away the ghey. It's one of the reasons I don't post here very much....the other is I can rarely find anything to say. I don't want to complain about life and nothing interesting is going on. I just want to have fun in here so Puns be they!
Whether you are homosexual, bisexual, trans, or other, do you ever wish that you weren't? Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender? If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the light that you see. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
But the rainbow is an image of hope for many reasons, as it is a brilliant sight coming out of oftimes dismal weather.
I probably would have said yes at some point, but at this point I'm feeling like I'm pretty content with that aspect (and, in fact, most aspects) of my identity, so I think I'd decline.
Unless it could be for, like, a day or something. Just to see.
Interestingly, while I don't identify as trans, I am certainly to some extent genderqueer, so if the option was to be a woman it would warrant more thought than being, say, magically transformed into a straight male. I don't think it would bother me nearly as much, strangely.
Whether you are homosexual, bisexual, trans, or other, do you ever wish that you weren't? Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender? If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
Oh hell no! I'm one of the few (from what I can gather) that never really had to struggle with his sexuality. I struggled for a bit in high school with how others might think or how they'd treat me, but that was not something that lasted long. I hit my stride at 18 and never looked back.
Do I ever think about life being straight? Not really, to be honest. If I wanted to 'go straight', I probably could. I certainly enjoy sex with women so sleeping with them isn't a hardship in and of itself. But I never would. I'd only be doing it to please others since it wouldn't be something that would make me happy. I like sex with guys, and I wouldn't give that up. Not if all it'd do is make others happy. So screw that.
I have a stubborn sense of self-assuredness.
ETA: Also, I'm on a birthday-related roadtrip the next few days, so I won't be around. Not that I'm particularly active a lot of the time, but at least for the next few days there's a great explanation for that.
Whether you are homosexual, bisexual, trans, or other, do you ever wish that you weren't? Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender? If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
Only when I get sad because I can't seem to connect with anyone and haven't been in a relationship since I was in my teens. You can wish you were straight/cisgender but thats no guarantee that you'll be happy with what you wished for. If a wish could guarantee happiness then I might do it but its likely that I'd wish for something more useful. Like a pair of smexy boy/girl twins or unlimited chocolate.
Whether you are homosexual, bisexual, trans, or other, do you ever wish that you weren't? Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender? If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
No.
I have thought on occasion on how my life would be easier if I were straight (and not genderless), but I think in general there are a lot of ways life could be easier for people and they still choose the narrower path. I'm reminded of something written by John Stuart Mill:
"Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs."
This isn't true for everyone, I don't think, but it is for me. Being different, having a more difficult life, not having acceptance from others... all of these things have enriched my character and allowed me to appreciate and care about things in life that I would not if I were as everyone else.
For me, it's about my identity as a person. If I were straight, I simply wouldn't be the same person. It would be like killing myself in the knowledge that they would extract my brain and transplant another in its place (were such a thing possible); my body would still be alive, but I would still be essentially dead.
I think I'm more inclined to wish that I lived in a better world than to wish I fit in more easily in this one.
I have even thought that, given the choice of sexuality, between being hetero or homo, (I sorta have this choice because I'm bisexual,) I would choose homo. The main reason is what Ain said, choosing the narrower path.
Today I held colloquium with a dude on the subject of what drives driven people to success. We thought that maybe it's about not being comfortable? If you are comfortable you don't have need to go beyond normalcy, to better yourself.
Also, claim: there is a higher incidence of jerkdome among the straight guys.
So last night a friend of mine who works at Gio's, a Winnipeg gay bar, smuggled me in.
But not to drink. In fact, all I had was water. I went to see the drag production of Nunsense: The Musical, a show I love, that they were doing as a fundraiser. It was incredibly awesome.
Whether you are homosexual, bisexual, trans, or other, do you ever wish that you weren't? Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender? If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
I have at points in my life thought seriously that I would be a more precise gender or sexual bend. Something more normative. But not anymore.
1) Being what and who I am and dealing with it has made me the person I am. It has led me to fight hard for my identity and my happiness. Success in life, even small ones, has so much more value when you have more obstacles. I actually think I have a better life by being Genderqueer. A normative bio woman content wityh being a woman has less value to their Gender. They wake up, they feel like a woman and they are a woman. they do not need to put so much thought and effort into it. Sure there are woman's rights and what kind of woman they choose to express themselves as. But honestly, they could put on sweats and smoke cigars all day while watching boxing and people will see them as a woman. I have to make a conscious effort every single day to be percieved as the person I feel like. For that, I place much more value on my Gender.
2) Nobody is truly normal. If it was not this issue, I would have another. Some only seem easier to deal with simply because they are more common and more is known about how to handle it, or because the issue is easier to keep private. The second is worse, because a very private issue that nobody sees you have makes you ultimately feel the most alone. People with these unseen problems are often the ones with the hardest lives.
3) Seeing how much ignorance is in the world, why would I wish to have grown up as a person who had no controversial issues to handle which have forced me outside all of the narrow minded bubbles society wraps us in?
If that genie arrived, I would not be asked to have been born a woman. I would not ask to be specifically Gay or Straight rather than Bi. I would not change a thing. If I could be transported back to my teen years while still having the memories and experience I have now, that I may do. For a chance to start my physical transition earlier when the results would be better. that would be about it. It would not make my life any easier mind you. It is easier to be trans now in the internet age than it was when I was a teenager. I had no idea what a Transexual was really. Only place I ever saw it was in an episode of Nightcourt, now they show up far more often in media.
Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender?
A little bit, but I don't think it would be all that different. I'd probably be a bit closer to my parents, probably would have lived at home a couple more years, possibly have a wife and kids but frankly I was never very good at interacting with women. A lot of who I am today as far as being more confident and outgoing has to do with Brad, or with circumstances affected by our relationship.
If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
I had to think hard on this. Part of me said I would because there are certain things I would like in my life that I can't have, and I don't see any inherent advantage to being gay, but ultimately I'd have to say no if for no other reason than I like my life and who I am and there are no guarantees that if I changed I would still have the life I like and be the person I am.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
The Golden Rule of forums: If you're going to be rude, be right. If you might be wrong, be polite.
Since I rarely post on this site I figure this would be the best place to start.
How do I join this "clan" ? I hope I don't have to join to post.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamelon I have a question for you, clan.
Whether you are homosexual, bisexual, trans, or other, do you ever wish that you weren't?
The short answer to this is "no" However your use of the word "other" intrigues me. I presume it could mean pansexual, omnisexual, or even...wait for it.... hetrosexual? I ask any hetro's if they ever wish to be gay/bi/tran/other. Probably not as that would make them bi would it not? I would never want to be a hetro, nor do I expect a straight person to be ever want to be gay.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamelon Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender?
Not really. I think of my parents having to rely on my brother for grandkids which is unfortunate. That I can't change though and they understand. Sometime I wonder if my friends or family ever consider what it would be like if I were straight and that is often stressful if the topic comes up.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamelon If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
Perhaps. If I could view an alternate reality of my would-be-straight-life while retaining the option to return to the one I have now. I think curiousity would get the best of me. If it was a permanent change then no I wouldn't. I see myself as more accepting of others because of my gayness. I cringe at the insight I would lose if my life went down another path.
I've never really had a problem with being gay, rather my problem has always been wishing certain other people were. I'm one of those people that has the unfortunate luck of always falling for the straight guy. One of my best friends right now was someone I developed strong feelings for, and since it was killing me inside I had to tell him. He let me down easy, and we ended up being even better friends for it. Still... I wish he were gay, too.
A mutual friend who I had talked to and knew about my feelings asked me an interesting question: If you were the dealer*, would you choose for him to be as he is or be gay?
As much as I love him, I don't think I'd be able to find myself at peace with either choice.
* - In the conversation the situation was referred to as going with the cards you're dealt in life.
To think about my life were I of other orientation is silly, almost ridiculous. The thought of knocking some chick up eventually and bearing the responsibility of bringing a child into this insane world is not something I desire. One might think I'd have it easier finding a woman rather than another gay man, but in reality the chances of finding a woman with my interests or who I wouldn't want to strangle every day due to their... woman-ness, and the chances of me finding another Gaymer are probably about equal.
Anyway.
Trying to catch up with Magic after all together quitting back in Kamigawa is tedious. Actually, trying to get started back up on Magic and manage other time consuming hobbies simultaneously is more tedious. Planeswalkers? Kithkin that look like something out of a Disney movie? What in the world has happened to Magic. I was checking the rumor mill and this "ROCK" block coming up looks interesting, at least from an artist's perspective (in regards to the concept art). Trying to wrap my head around all this mumbo-jumbo they're putting into the game, blech. At least the artwork hasn't suffered but rather gotten better (except those Kithkin...).
Kithkin are better than I'd hoped for. At least they aren't garden gnome clones. They look like a halfling or kender would and I'm very satisfied with how they look. I like that they look humanoid but you'd never mistake them for a human. Making fantasy anthropamorphic sort of misses the point.
Since I rarely post on this site I figure this would be the best place to start.
How do I join this "clan" ? I hope I don't have to join to post.
Simply posting and requesting membership is enough. Welcome! Tell us a bit about yourself.
And I know I do this far too often, but Ellen DeGeneres has slayed me again. This time in reply to Sally Kern, whose YouTubed rant about homosexuality has caused quite a stir. Ellen responded on her show today. Hilarious. And about the only way to respond to that level of bigoted misinformation.
Man. I wish I'd learned how great being gay was when I was 2. More money, better wardrobe, more cowbell, and less fail. Politicians never cease to amaze me. Sadly, alot of people probably agree with Sally Kern.
The recording you linked to from Sally Kern's statement cut off after 30 seconds. Mixed blessing? I kind of wanted to hear what she had to say.
It's funny how you could replace every time she said "homosexual" with "jew" and we'd obviously know how bigoted (not to mention specious) it was. But, oh no, it's not gay-bashing.
The recording you linked to from Sally Kern's statement cut off after 30 seconds. Mixed blessing? I kind of wanted to hear what she had to say.
The homosexual agenda [Loud snap] is destroying this nation. OK? It's just a fact. [Volume increases] Not everybody's lifestyle is equal, just like not all religions are equal.
You know, the very fact that I'm talking to you like this here today, puts me in jeopardy. OK? Uh and I'm not anti, I'm not gay-bashing, but according to God's word that is not the right kind of lifestyle, it has deadly consequences for those people involved in it, they have more suicides, uh and they're more discouraged, there's more illness, their uh lifespans are shorter, you know?
It's, it's, it's not a lifestyle that is good for this nation.
'Matter of fact, studies show, that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades.
So it's the death knell of this country.
I honestly think it's the biggest threat even, that our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam, which I think is a big threat. OK?
Because what's happening now, they're going after er uh in schools - two year-olds!
You know why they're trying to get early childhood education? They want to get our young children into the government schools so they can indoctrinate them! I taught school for close to twenty years and we're not teaching facts and knowledge anymore folks, we're teaching indoctrination. OK?
And they're going after our young children, as young as two years of age, to try to teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is the acceptable lifestyle.
You know, gays are infiltrating city councils.
Do you know? Eureka Springs [Arkansas], anybody been there, for the [Great] Passion Play? [A "Creation Truth" production] OK, have you heard that the city council of Eureka Springs is now controlled by gays? OK?
There are some others. Uh, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Tacoma, Md.; Kensington, Md.; in Vermont, Oregon, West Palm Beach, Fla. and a lot of other places in Florida.
What's happening? And they are winning elections. One of the things I deal with in our legislature, I tried to introduce a bill last year, that would notify parents, uh schools had to let parents know what clubs their students were involved in.
And the reason I did that bill, primarily, was this, we had the Gay-Straight Alliance coming into our schools.
Kids are getting involved in these groups, their lives are being ruined, their parents don't know about it. So I introduced a bill that said you have to notify all clubs, and things. And one of my colleagues said, "Well, you know we don't have a gay problem in my community, so that's why I voted against that bill."
Well you know what? To me that is so dumb. If you've got cancer or something in your little toe, do you say, Well you know I’m just gonna forget about it, 'cause the rest of you's fine?
It spreads! OK?
And this, this stuff is deadly, and it's spreading and it will destroy uh our young people, it will destroy this nation.
What I've never understood is all this wide-eyed alarmism about "homosexual indoctrination." Is it not the case that Christians want prayer and Jesus and so forth in schools? So, it's okay for them to use propaganda, to indoctrinate people, as surely those things must be considered equivalent? Why, then, is it "bad" for liberals (or whatever) to promote the idea that, hey, homosexuality might not be evil or immoral? Seems like both groups are doing the same exact thing insofar as broadcasting ideological views, but there are some key differences. Christianity comprises the majority in our country, and as she stated, homosexuals are a scant 2%. I'd say there's a lot more societal pressure to conform to conservative views than liberal ones, so if anything is indoctrination, it's Christianity (moreover, it's not as if you can really say Christianity has a more factual standing in a school curriculum than, uh, tolerance policies or whatever she's even referring to). Beyond the tyranny of the majority, the interest of homosexuals in being seen as equal to everyone else appears to mainly impact... them. Certainly I don't think the motivations are malicious or insidious. The effect on [conservative fundamentalist evangelical dominionist Christian] straight people is, at best, negligibly indirect whereas the effect that Christian ideology potentially has on numerous groups of people if it were to be enforced more fervently is a lot more notable.
What I think this commentary comes down to is the same old conservative thing of not liking free speech. They want everyone to espouse Christian views like them and for no one to ever talk about liberal notions or "sinful" things like homosexuality. It stems from that sort of communitarian perfectionism which, I think, is sort of symptomatic of the control freak who feels compelled to dictate what people in society should do. But ultimately that sort of society never shapes up to a very good one. You want to talk about dissolving government regimes, look no further than the oppressive conservative ones that championed invasive, paternalistic authority.
The message seems to be "stfu libruls and homos. only us kinsarvative krashtans kin talk about r beleafs."
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Maybe we should have a Gayeance and try to dredge up some of the fallen gays. Where's Chris Wiggins these days anyhoo?
Well what do you expect? Everything about me is whorrific.
...
Ok I'll stop
....maybe.
I do feel I scare away the ghey. It's one of the reasons I don't post here very much....the other is I can rarely find anything to say. I don't want to complain about life and nothing interesting is going on. I just want to have fun in here so Puns be they!
Made me think of you.
"Ah, you cut your hair."
"No."
"Oh?"
"I had a barber do it for me."
"Quite splitting hairs."
We're a regular comedy duo.
Whether you are homosexual, bisexual, trans, or other, do you ever wish that you weren't? Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender? If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
Gaymers | Magic Coffeehouse | Little Jar of Mamelon | Natural 20
Unless it could be for, like, a day or something. Just to see.
Interestingly, while I don't identify as trans, I am certainly to some extent genderqueer, so if the option was to be a woman it would warrant more thought than being, say, magically transformed into a straight male. I don't think it would bother me nearly as much, strangely.
Oh hell no! I'm one of the few (from what I can gather) that never really had to struggle with his sexuality. I struggled for a bit in high school with how others might think or how they'd treat me, but that was not something that lasted long. I hit my stride at 18 and never looked back.
Do I ever think about life being straight? Not really, to be honest. If I wanted to 'go straight', I probably could. I certainly enjoy sex with women so sleeping with them isn't a hardship in and of itself. But I never would. I'd only be doing it to please others since it wouldn't be something that would make me happy. I like sex with guys, and I wouldn't give that up. Not if all it'd do is make others happy. So screw that.
I have a stubborn sense of self-assuredness.
ETA: Also, I'm on a birthday-related roadtrip the next few days, so I won't be around. Not that I'm particularly active a lot of the time, but at least for the next few days there's a great explanation for that.
Catch you on the flipside.
Archatmos
Excellion
Fracture: Israfiel (WBR), Wujal (URG), Valedon (GUB), Amduat (BGW), Paladris (RWU)
Collision (Set Two of the Fracture Block)
Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
Only when I get sad because I can't seem to connect with anyone and haven't been in a relationship since I was in my teens. You can wish you were straight/cisgender but thats no guarantee that you'll be happy with what you wished for. If a wish could guarantee happiness then I might do it but its likely that I'd wish for something more useful. Like a pair of smexy boy/girl twins or unlimited chocolate.
No.
I have thought on occasion on how my life would be easier if I were straight (and not genderless), but I think in general there are a lot of ways life could be easier for people and they still choose the narrower path. I'm reminded of something written by John Stuart Mill:
This isn't true for everyone, I don't think, but it is for me. Being different, having a more difficult life, not having acceptance from others... all of these things have enriched my character and allowed me to appreciate and care about things in life that I would not if I were as everyone else.
For me, it's about my identity as a person. If I were straight, I simply wouldn't be the same person. It would be like killing myself in the knowledge that they would extract my brain and transplant another in its place (were such a thing possible); my body would still be alive, but I would still be essentially dead.
I think I'm more inclined to wish that I lived in a better world than to wish I fit in more easily in this one.
I have even thought that, given the choice of sexuality, between being hetero or homo, (I sorta have this choice because I'm bisexual,) I would choose homo. The main reason is what Ain said, choosing the narrower path.
Today I held colloquium with a dude on the subject of what drives driven people to success. We thought that maybe it's about not being comfortable? If you are comfortable you don't have need to go beyond normalcy, to better yourself.
Also, claim: there is a higher incidence of jerkdome among the straight guys.
But not to drink. In fact, all I had was water. I went to see the drag production of Nunsense: The Musical, a show I love, that they were doing as a fundraiser. It was incredibly awesome.
I have at points in my life thought seriously that I would be a more precise gender or sexual bend. Something more normative. But not anymore.
1) Being what and who I am and dealing with it has made me the person I am. It has led me to fight hard for my identity and my happiness. Success in life, even small ones, has so much more value when you have more obstacles. I actually think I have a better life by being Genderqueer. A normative bio woman content wityh being a woman has less value to their Gender. They wake up, they feel like a woman and they are a woman. they do not need to put so much thought and effort into it. Sure there are woman's rights and what kind of woman they choose to express themselves as. But honestly, they could put on sweats and smoke cigars all day while watching boxing and people will see them as a woman. I have to make a conscious effort every single day to be percieved as the person I feel like. For that, I place much more value on my Gender.
2) Nobody is truly normal. If it was not this issue, I would have another. Some only seem easier to deal with simply because they are more common and more is known about how to handle it, or because the issue is easier to keep private. The second is worse, because a very private issue that nobody sees you have makes you ultimately feel the most alone. People with these unseen problems are often the ones with the hardest lives.
3) Seeing how much ignorance is in the world, why would I wish to have grown up as a person who had no controversial issues to handle which have forced me outside all of the narrow minded bubbles society wraps us in?
If that genie arrived, I would not be asked to have been born a woman. I would not ask to be specifically Gay or Straight rather than Bi. I would not change a thing. If I could be transported back to my teen years while still having the memories and experience I have now, that I may do. For a chance to start my physical transition earlier when the results would be better. that would be about it. It would not make my life any easier mind you. It is easier to be trans now in the internet age than it was when I was a teenager. I had no idea what a Transexual was really. Only place I ever saw it was in an episode of Nightcourt, now they show up far more often in media.
Not particularly. I mean, sure there have been fleeting moments but that's about all.
A little bit, but I don't think it would be all that different. I'd probably be a bit closer to my parents, probably would have lived at home a couple more years, possibly have a wife and kids but frankly I was never very good at interacting with women. A lot of who I am today as far as being more confident and outgoing has to do with Brad, or with circumstances affected by our relationship.
I had to think hard on this. Part of me said I would because there are certain things I would like in my life that I can't have, and I don't see any inherent advantage to being gay, but ultimately I'd have to say no if for no other reason than I like my life and who I am and there are no guarantees that if I changed I would still have the life I like and be the person I am.
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
How do I join this "clan" ? I hope I don't have to join to post.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamelon
I have a question for you, clan.
Whether you are homosexual, bisexual, trans, or other, do you ever wish that you weren't?
The short answer to this is "no" However your use of the word "other" intrigues me. I presume it could mean pansexual, omnisexual, or even...wait for it.... hetrosexual? I ask any hetro's if they ever wish to be gay/bi/tran/other. Probably not as that would make them bi would it not? I would never want to be a hetro, nor do I expect a straight person to be ever want to be gay.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamelon
Do you ever consider what your life would have been like had you been straight/cisgender?
Not really. I think of my parents having to rely on my brother for grandkids which is unfortunate. That I can't change though and they understand. Sometime I wonder if my friends or family ever consider what it would be like if I were straight and that is often stressful if the topic comes up.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamelon
If a magical genie could grant you a wish to change that about yourself in some way, would you take the opportunity?
Perhaps. If I could view an alternate reality of my would-be-straight-life while retaining the option to return to the one I have now. I think curiousity would get the best of me. If it was a permanent change then no I wouldn't. I see myself as more accepting of others because of my gayness. I cringe at the insight I would lose if my life went down another path.
A mutual friend who I had talked to and knew about my feelings asked me an interesting question: If you were the dealer*, would you choose for him to be as he is or be gay?
As much as I love him, I don't think I'd be able to find myself at peace with either choice.
* - In the conversation the situation was referred to as going with the cards you're dealt in life.
To think about my life were I of other orientation is silly, almost ridiculous. The thought of knocking some chick up eventually and bearing the responsibility of bringing a child into this insane world is not something I desire. One might think I'd have it easier finding a woman rather than another gay man, but in reality the chances of finding a woman with my interests or who I wouldn't want to strangle every day due to their... woman-ness, and the chances of me finding another Gaymer are probably about equal.
Anyway.
Trying to catch up with Magic after all together quitting back in Kamigawa is tedious. Actually, trying to get started back up on Magic and manage other time consuming hobbies simultaneously is more tedious. Planeswalkers? Kithkin that look like something out of a Disney movie? What in the world has happened to Magic. I was checking the rumor mill and this "ROCK" block coming up looks interesting, at least from an artist's perspective (in regards to the concept art). Trying to wrap my head around all this mumbo-jumbo they're putting into the game, blech. At least the artwork hasn't suffered but rather gotten better (except those Kithkin...).
(Also known as Xenphire)
Simply posting and requesting membership is enough. Welcome! Tell us a bit about yourself.
And I know I do this far too often, but Ellen DeGeneres has slayed me again. This time in reply to Sally Kern, whose YouTubed rant about homosexuality has caused quite a stir. Ellen responded on her show today. Hilarious. And about the only way to respond to that level of bigoted misinformation.
Archatmos
Excellion
Fracture: Israfiel (WBR), Wujal (URG), Valedon (GUB), Amduat (BGW), Paladris (RWU)
Collision (Set Two of the Fracture Block)
Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
It's funny how you could replace every time she said "homosexual" with "jew" and we'd obviously know how bigoted (not to mention specious) it was. But, oh no, it's not gay-bashing.
The homosexual agenda [Loud snap] is destroying this nation. OK? It's just a fact. [Volume increases] Not everybody's lifestyle is equal, just like not all religions are equal.
You know, the very fact that I'm talking to you like this here today, puts me in jeopardy. OK? Uh and I'm not anti, I'm not gay-bashing, but according to God's word that is not the right kind of lifestyle, it has deadly consequences for those people involved in it, they have more suicides, uh and they're more discouraged, there's more illness, their uh lifespans are shorter, you know?
It's, it's, it's not a lifestyle that is good for this nation.
'Matter of fact, studies show, that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades.
So it's the death knell of this country.
I honestly think it's the biggest threat even, that our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam, which I think is a big threat. OK?
Because what's happening now, they're going after er uh in schools - two year-olds!
You know why they're trying to get early childhood education? They want to get our young children into the government schools so they can indoctrinate them! I taught school for close to twenty years and we're not teaching facts and knowledge anymore folks, we're teaching indoctrination. OK?
And they're going after our young children, as young as two years of age, to try to teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is the acceptable lifestyle.
You know, gays are infiltrating city councils.
Do you know? Eureka Springs [Arkansas], anybody been there, for the [Great] Passion Play? [A "Creation Truth" production] OK, have you heard that the city council of Eureka Springs is now controlled by gays? OK?
There are some others. Uh, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Tacoma, Md.; Kensington, Md.; in Vermont, Oregon, West Palm Beach, Fla. and a lot of other places in Florida.
What's happening? And they are winning elections. One of the things I deal with in our legislature, I tried to introduce a bill last year, that would notify parents, uh schools had to let parents know what clubs their students were involved in.
And the reason I did that bill, primarily, was this, we had the Gay-Straight Alliance coming into our schools.
Kids are getting involved in these groups, their lives are being ruined, their parents don't know about it. So I introduced a bill that said you have to notify all clubs, and things. And one of my colleagues said, "Well, you know we don't have a gay problem in my community, so that's why I voted against that bill."
Well you know what? To me that is so dumb. If you've got cancer or something in your little toe, do you say, Well you know I’m just gonna forget about it, 'cause the rest of you's fine?
It spreads! OK?
And this, this stuff is deadly, and it's spreading and it will destroy uh our young people, it will destroy this nation.
Archatmos
Excellion
Fracture: Israfiel (WBR), Wujal (URG), Valedon (GUB), Amduat (BGW), Paladris (RWU)
Collision (Set Two of the Fracture Block)
Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
What I've never understood is all this wide-eyed alarmism about "homosexual indoctrination." Is it not the case that Christians want prayer and Jesus and so forth in schools? So, it's okay for them to use propaganda, to indoctrinate people, as surely those things must be considered equivalent? Why, then, is it "bad" for liberals (or whatever) to promote the idea that, hey, homosexuality might not be evil or immoral? Seems like both groups are doing the same exact thing insofar as broadcasting ideological views, but there are some key differences. Christianity comprises the majority in our country, and as she stated, homosexuals are a scant 2%. I'd say there's a lot more societal pressure to conform to conservative views than liberal ones, so if anything is indoctrination, it's Christianity (moreover, it's not as if you can really say Christianity has a more factual standing in a school curriculum than, uh, tolerance policies or whatever she's even referring to). Beyond the tyranny of the majority, the interest of homosexuals in being seen as equal to everyone else appears to mainly impact... them. Certainly I don't think the motivations are malicious or insidious. The effect on [conservative fundamentalist evangelical dominionist Christian] straight people is, at best, negligibly indirect whereas the effect that Christian ideology potentially has on numerous groups of people if it were to be enforced more fervently is a lot more notable.
What I think this commentary comes down to is the same old conservative thing of not liking free speech. They want everyone to espouse Christian views like them and for no one to ever talk about liberal notions or "sinful" things like homosexuality. It stems from that sort of communitarian perfectionism which, I think, is sort of symptomatic of the control freak who feels compelled to dictate what people in society should do. But ultimately that sort of society never shapes up to a very good one. You want to talk about dissolving government regimes, look no further than the oppressive conservative ones that championed invasive, paternalistic authority.
The message seems to be "stfu libruls and homos. only us kinsarvative krashtans kin talk about r beleafs."