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originally posted by: orangetom1999
Once again...people are more than sex and sexuality.
Orangetom
That's the only thing you have got right. You might consider my posts to be anything you wish - including immature and emotional, but I'd like to remind you that I'm a human being and these things come naturally to us. If you think I'll ignore my emotions, you're insane.
I'm not sure why you're so pissy about words changing - words change throughout the history of their use. Get over it.
If gay people are focusing on their sexuality, then those against gay people are doing the same.
Look at your words for example, when people talk about gays you keep saying "people are more than their sexuality", but gay does not automatically have to refer to sexuality, it can also refer to romance between people of the same gender as well.
It's very interesting that when people think of "straight" they don't only thing of sexuality but they think of romance, but for some people, when they see the word "gay" they automatically think of sexuality.
originally posted by: orangetom1999
It does indeed take two people to make a conflict...two or more. There is a conflict going on here?? What is it?? Do tell??
originally posted by: orangetom1999
Wow!! G. F. W. Hegel??? Thesis, antithesis, Synthesis?? I think you assume to much here in order to go on to your next assumption in crisis management techniques.
originally posted by: orangetom1999
People who know and can think for themselves do not want to view people through their sex and sexuality...particularly as the very first thing by which to be accosted. Thinking people find this to be base and vulgar..very common.
originally posted by: orangetom1999
However ..due to mass marketing ..and particularly in public education and television movie education..the same thing...most people do not even think this way today. This is not normal..it is propaganda...conditioning.
originally posted by: orangetom1999
I, on the other hand, have conditioned myself to not think this way and spot it in those who do.
originally posted by: orangetom1999
I am not interested in yours or anyone else's romance life, nor their sex lives. Understand??? And I certainly am not interested in it being boasted about in public as a badge or index of merit or glory.
originally posted by: orangetom1999
I don't think it ever occurred to most of them to think of it in the manner I am describing..the propaganda and non thinking is so entrenched today by media controlled lives and thinking..or if you prefer ..non thinking...ie..emoting.
2 Chronicles 7:14New King James Version (NKJV)
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land
The conflict between those who are for and against gay rights.
It is not an assumption. If someone is against homosexuality, then that itself is a focus on sexuality in order to fight against it.
Just because some people don't have the same perspective as you (that the focus of sexuality is 'vulgar') that doesn't mean that they don't think for themselves. Many religions already see sexuality as a 'vulgar' thing, maybe someone wants to think out of the box and see it as something to be celebrated.
Sexuality is a normal thing for a human being (and nature in general). That's why it's in the media a lot because it's one of the things that are a part of human nature.
Again, just because people choose not to see sexuality a 'vulgar' like you and many religions/societies do, does not mean that they are 'not thinking' it could be that they just choose to focus on sexuality because they enjoy it.
It may not be your preference but it is the preference of others. If, for example, you don't like blue sweaters in are not interested in it being 'boasted' about in public, then there is not much you can do about it. Trying to ban blue sweaters or force people to not wear it in public would be tyranny and 'emoting' (since you would be banning something on the basis of preference rather than equality/justice).
They're going to be accountable to us and everyone else from now on. This world doesn't have room for it anymore. I'm sure you agree that it just doesn't.
Again, just because people choose not to see sexuality a 'vulgar' like you and many religions/societies do, does not mean that they are 'not thinking' it could be that they just choose to focus on sexuality because they enjoy it.
Jesus did not tell people to force others to give up their way of life. Jesus only said preach The Gospel and be in the world but not of it - but he did not say to try to make the entire world go along with it, because according to John 15:19 the followers of Jesus Christ were chosen by Jesus himself, and do not belong to the world - so you can't really make people to go along with it anyway.
The military document advises personnel to “assume racism is everywhere, every day” and “notice code words for race.” They are also instructed to “understand and learn from the history of whiteness and racism.”
Question? Why do you care what homosexuals do? Is it because you feel they are the cause for all your ills?
2 Chronicles 7:14New King James Version (NKJV)
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land
According to that nugget, you are to blame for the damage to our land. Not homosexuality. What are the requirements for resolution? Being oppressive over someone's sexuality, or humbling yourself, seeking his face, pray, and turn from YOUR wicked ways.
originally posted by: BasementWarriorKryptonite
Some people simply will never give up trying to understand what they cannot. Why must we require understanding of a thing and not just be happy that it is what it is and that nothing can be done about it?
If gay people are focusing on their sexuality, then those against gay people are doing the same. It is the focus of sexuality which causes people to want the law to treat gays as lower than themselves, and if gay people are responding to this by focusing on their sexuality, then that is all it is - a response to the focus of sexuality that was already there by others (those against gays).
a reply to: orangetom1999
What isn't a default setting on my part?
Some people simply will never give up trying to understand what they cannot. Why must we require understanding of a thing and not just be happy that it is what it is and that nothing can be done about it?
originally posted by: lonewolf19792000
Jesus didn't say anything about homosexuality because he was a kosher jew, and by his time period, most jews were kosher so he didn't have to say anything, homosexuals would have been stoned to death as the law demanded, their blood being on their own heads.
He didn't say much about eating pork either and a host of other things kosher jews would have already known about.