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Marriage equality: Texas
#41
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
(February 26, 2014 at 11:51 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I definitely shouldn't have insulted them, though if I was dating a girl, my peers would be expecting me to have sex. In fact they thought it was weird that I didn't know what orgasms were, how to use a condom, or basically have any experience with sex.

I think a big part of it was that I had some problems producing testosterone, so I really just wasn't horny. I had to start taking shots at about age 16, and it was a while after that before I started masturbating. Boy did that change everything.
Wait, you weren't horny as a teenager... and you didn't start masturbating until you were 16? Are you sure your birth parents weren't from Krypton?
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#42
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
A fundamental problem that many Christian conservatives have (not necessarily all Christians, as I always believed in the theory of evolution when I was active in the faith) is that many/most don't believe in the TOE. If you honest and truly believe that a man was created out of dirt, and a woman was created out of the rib of that first man...and that is why/how ''marriage'' came to be, with one man and a woman ...then, you will have very archaic views as to homosexuality, etc. Creationists more than likely, will not accept homosexuality, because you really can't accept homosexuality as 'normal,' if you believe that God created one man, one woman to procreate, etc. So, it's not just a matter of someone being a bigot, but rather their entire understanding of biology is fucked up at its core.

For lack of a better phrase. lol

To understand science, and the fundamentals of biology, one has to denouce Creationism, and most Christian conservatives believe in Creationism. Even if some claim to believe in the TOE, they can't believe it completely and fully, because there are too many tenets that contradict either school of thought.
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#43
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
Is not any bigot's understanding flawed or fucked up in some way? If you choose to live by a certain philosophy or backwards belief, that doesn't excuse the belief.
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#44
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
(February 26, 2014 at 11:55 pm)futilethewinds Wrote:
(February 26, 2014 at 11:51 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I definitely shouldn't have insulted them, though if I was dating a girl, my peers would be expecting me to have sex. In fact they thought it was weird that I didn't know what orgasms were, how to use a condom, or basically have any experience with sex.

I think a big part of it was that I had some problems producing testosterone, so I really just wasn't horny. I had to start taking shots at about age 16, and it was a while after that before I started masturbating. Boy did that change everything.
Wait, you weren't horny as a teenager... and you didn't start masturbating until you were 16? Are you sure your birth parents weren't from Krypton?

Honestly I haven't been the healthiest person in the world growing up, and a number of things don't work the way they should. I wasn't a horny teen. I needed to take shots, and at one point they stopped getting me shots because I became too aggressive. Or at least too aggressive to my dad's liking, since he doesn't take disobedience too well.
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Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

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#45
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(February 27, 2014 at 12:19 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Is not any bigot's understanding flawed or fucked up in some way? If you choose to live by a certain philosophy or backwards belief, that doesn't excuse the belief.

True. Bigotry is learned. Bigotry is taught. Sad
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#46
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
(February 26, 2014 at 11:51 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I definitely shouldn't have insulted them, though if I was dating a girl, my peers would be expecting me to have sex. In fact they thought it was weird that I didn't know what orgasms were, how to use a condom, or basically have any experience with sex.

Fuck your peers.

.....

That wasn't intended to be literal.

Quote:I think a big part of it was that I had some problems producing testosterone, so I really just wasn't horny. I had to start taking shots at about age 16, and it was a while after that before I started masturbating. Boy did that change everything.

I don't think that claims as much credit as not being inquisitive. Otherwise, you would have asked them to at least describe orgasm.

Probably 0.o
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Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
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#47
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
If I ever asked them about it, they'd just run off to get their friends to hear me repeat that I didn't know what an orgasm was, or what "spank my monkey" meant, and laugh at me. Not that these were supposed to be my friends. It was just guys that liked to hang around and mock me because I was a shrimpy loser. The kind of guys that would steal my ball in gym just to take it away, despite their being a rack of them nearby.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#48
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
The world without internet is kind of weird. Google's too good to us.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#49
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
Lol, yeah, we didn't exactly use the internet when I was in school. My family didn't actually get it until I was about 20. Things have changed so much.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#50
RE: Marriage equality: Texas
I was out for about 4 hours today.

Always shit a brick when Windows installs an "update" and tells you it is "re-configuring."
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