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RE: That Gay Thread
July 17, 2020 at 2:08 pm
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Homophobia, like racism, is ultimately tribalistic. It's all about hating the unknown. It's ultimately based on a fear of the unknown. People fear and hate what they don't understand. Including the parts of themselves that they don't understand. Pretty much all bigotry are ultimately, sort of, a form of xenophobia.
That is ... when it's not just being motivated by an ideology.
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RE: That Gay Thread
July 17, 2020 at 2:58 pm
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(July 17, 2020 at 2:08 pm)ModusPonens1 Wrote: Homophobia, like racism, is ultimately tribalistic. It's all about hating the unknown. It's ultimately based on a fear of the unknown. People fear and hate what they don't understand.
And the reason why people are having difficulties to understand are religions who are still influential and are keeping people away from knowledge.
Right now in Poland catholic church is spreading disgusting hate towards homosexuals where bishops and archbishops are calling homosexuals "a plague" and claim how they want to introduce "a dictatorship of minorities", and clergy is openly interfering with the presidential elections by fearmongering and telling lies.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: That Gay Thread
July 25, 2020 at 10:44 am
I haven't had it for a long while but I'm too high on life to be as Stan-Marsh-out-of-South-Park's-Dad about it as I normally constantly am.
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RE: That Gay Thread
July 25, 2020 at 12:16 pm
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(July 25, 2020 at 10:43 am)Eleven Wrote: It's official, glory holes are safe during the pandemic

Best bit from the article:
Quote:Helpfully, the Canadian health organisation recommends first and foremost masturbating (yourself) is the safest, but if you bring a partner along you should jerk them off from a safe social distance.
Purely out of intellectual curiosity, I wouldn’t be averse to a demonstration of how men jerk each other off from six feet apart. I’m guessing it would involve either abnormally long arms or an absolute world-beater of a willy. Possibly both.
Or maybe a new use for one of those reach-and-grab things the old folks use.
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RE: That Gay Thread
July 25, 2020 at 1:15 pm
Don't you know that the gays are equipped with the telekinesis?