(September 9, 2014 at 7:41 pm)Keri Wrote: It just pisses me off. I left my previous forum for being treated like a pariah for being gay and now I'm accused of being homophobic?
I didn't even want to come out on here for while. I wanted to just be fucking treated like a human being and not be labelled and placed in a box. But then I couldn't sit there and take the opposite. Ugh. Whatever.
... but seriously.
I love this quote from one of my favourite writers, Alice Walker;
"Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge."
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
