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| rinjiixrocket | Apr 23 2010, 01:09 AM Post #106 |
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i'm confused. lol. @squid - can be? they just ARE. xD that's creepy. T___T at the annual japanese festival in my city, there were several furries running around. i hid behind my boyfriend and almost cried. they were trying to scare girls and small children on purpose. |
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| squidduck | Apr 23 2010, 01:10 AM Post #107 |
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@kirvee: Ahhh, okay :x Most my family have their roots in the South, but my dad's a Yankee. I was born and raised here, too, and there are certain qualities about the South I like, but.... I'm not really proud of the place, and I'm just dying for a change of scenery XD; Eh, I don't really feel.... anything towards the Confederate flag. At one point it unnerved me a bit, but.... beh. I don't see it so much around here nowadays, so it's prolly why I don't think about it. Apparently I don't have the accent, either (which is... sort of surprising; although my mom and dad didn't really have it, both sides of the family are straight-up country). Or, if I do... it's not very strong ;;; @kuma: geedze are, lahk, sharing the same brain? /bricked Lawl, California of the South. Yeah, Floridians are a special case XD EDIT: GAH. LAETPOST /orzz @tokyo: Yeah, less "can be" fffsgkj That... is really bad e____e We have an annual Japanese festival nearby, too, fortunately with no furs (that I've seen...) |
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| rinjiixrocket | Apr 23 2010, 01:17 AM Post #108 |
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@squid - lol. i might have gone ninja on his ass if he approached any closer. ORLY!? you're lucky. there were wayyy too many cosplayers at mine. it wasn't a con or anything, so the cosplay was extremely out of place. |
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| squidduck | Apr 23 2010, 01:38 AM Post #109 |
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@tokyo: Ah, we did have weeabo cosplayers, too, though XD;; Yeah same. I mean sure it was a Japanese cultural event but..... ;;; (what made it more derpy was a group of them dancing to Caramell Dansen) |
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| Kirvee | Apr 23 2010, 01:42 AM Post #110 |
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@Squid: I think the accent is dependent on both where in the South you are and how often you are exposed to it. I was born and raised in the mountains of NC, and everyone there including my family had a medium-ish accent. |
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| squidduck | Apr 23 2010, 01:57 AM Post #111 |
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@kirvee: Well, like I said, my relatives were country as all hell, accent and all XD (although neither of my parents really have it...) Though it was more or less a mix of accent levels in the general community (when I was way young, anyway) That's awesome you were up in the Appalachian though ; x ; I travel over that way to snowboard sometimes ffff |
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| Kirvee | Apr 23 2010, 03:37 AM Post #112 |
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@Squid: The Appalachian Mountains are like the best place to grow up EVER! Sadly the specific area I lived in didn't get much snow (except when I was barely 2 years old in 1993 when we had a huge blizzard...). |
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| kuma-kuma | Apr 23 2010, 03:50 AM Post #113 |
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-late for once- @Kirvee: My internet isn't going to be good to me until next week when it gets changed, I believe. I...don't have the energy to reply to all this /passes out |
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| Kirvee | Apr 23 2010, 03:52 AM Post #114 |
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@Kuma: D=. I'd die if I had to wait that long for good internet ;-;. Nuuu! *revives you* It's cuz you're on at 5AM. I'm on because I have schoolwork to finish |
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| squidduck | Apr 23 2010, 04:05 AM Post #115 |
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@kirvee: Imagine "waiting" for 2+ years |||OTLL Ahhh you guys are so bad XD |
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| Kirvee | Apr 23 2010, 04:12 AM Post #116 |
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@Squid: Lol. I had no computer for 2 weeks when we were moving up here. 2 weeks. I was having MAJOR withdrawals. |
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| squidduck | Apr 23 2010, 04:23 AM Post #117 |
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@kirvee: Man XD; That had to have sucked~ I remember being grounded from using the computer once. Yeeaahno. I totally sneaked on; it was pretty bad because I really couldn't take it ;;; |
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| ZaCloud | Apr 23 2010, 06:00 AM Post #118 |
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So many pages... @_@ Sorry if anything like this has been said already, but I just needs to drop this out here cuz it's a word that should be spread (I'll do it in two little parts): I'm a Christian, and I support love of all kinds and gender neutrality. There's plenty of true Christians out there who follow the "love one another" and "judge not lest ye be judged" ways. It's just that most folks never realize that they're Christians because they don't go around preaching annoyingly all the time. Which is what unfortunately makes the "bad apples" so visible. Cuz those are the ones who won't shut up, go around antagonizing people, and basically turn people AGAINST Christianity in their warped attempts to promote it. And who only follow some parts of the Bible that they choose to obsess over while conveniently forgetting about the most important parts that entail love and peace. In other words, verbose angry "Christians" are actually the Anti-Christ. :blink: Sometimes I wish I could get five minutes on national TV just to tell them that. Let them see the error of their ways so they have time to repent if they ever wish to, and to let everyone know that real Christians are coo' and are absolutely nothing like "Christians". <_< -- (Warning: Some sexual acts and organs are detailed below) That said, homosexuality actually has NO BUSINESS BEING CALLED A SIN. Yup, I say that from the bottom of my Christ-following heart. Here's a great argument you could use if a fake-Christian starts Bible-beating. First, they usually point to the Sodom and Gomorrah debacle. But, if one were to look at the original Aramaic text translated (not the biased King James or other modern translations that are from already-mistranslated Greek or Roman), they would find that the people of those cities were just plain corrupt and evil in general. At no point were they outright condemned specifically for homosexual acts. Another mistranslation: The whole "It's a sin for a man to be effeminate" thing... Aramaic worded that to mean pretty much "weak-willed." Which would be the foundation for just about any type of sin. So femmen are fine, and so of course would be any other different gender identities and mannerisms. God made you who you are, you should embrace it and enjoy the gift of life He gave you. After all, if murder and suicide are mortal sins because they take away the precious gift of life that only He can give... then it'd be a sin to guilt others into wasting the life that He intended for them! Then, take a look at the history of the time. On a simpler scale, the population was extremely low, and susceptible to disease and early death. So of course, you wouldn't want valuable sperm being "wasted" on non-fertile couples ("spilling your seed" more often than in fertile-couple intercourse, actually lowers males' sperm count, thus making it harder to get a female pregnant). Plus lubrication was hard to come by, so injuries from attempts at sodomy would likely be deadly. Hence, it was a good idea at the time to only have heterosexual couples to "be fruitful and multiply." But we have to look at modern times now. We have better medicine, better immune systems, longer life expectancies and better safety precautions for alternative sex practices. Our Earth that is our responsibility is now overpopulated and dooming itself to destruction of nature and perhaps the world itself. We NEED less breeding-couples now. Homosexual couples being allowed adoption would help that so much. There are SO many children in orphanages who never end up with a stable family, who become psychologically messed-up adults because they never got that foundation of love and acceptance. Something that so many couples would be willing to give them if only they could be given the right paperwork. And finally, the big one. Tell them to read the whole Leviticus section. There, they'll of course find the supposedly definitive line "It is an ABOMINATION for a man to lie down with another man as if they were married." BUT... have them keep reading. They'll find it's also an ABOMINATION to eat "a creature of the sea without fin or scale", and "to wear clothing of mixed textile." In other words, if homosexuality is a damnable-to-Hell sin... then so is eating clams or shrimp, or wearing a cotton-wool-blend sweater! Are we supposed to take Leviticus seriously? SERIOUSLY? COME ON!!! I'm sure plenty of those lobbying against gay rights are wearing a nylon shirt with their cotton jeans, and aren't protesting outside of Long John Silvers!!! Maybe Leviticus meant something else by those words... maybe he meant don't eat a fish who's fins and scales have rotted off, and maybe mixing uncured textiles in those old days made one or both of them rot. I dunno. But for historical context... back then, the Greeks and Romans had different relationships than we do now. Most of the time, men had wives in order to have property and babies. But they mostly valued relationships with teenage boys. Not all of these relationships were sexual, but a great deal were, and to varying degrees. It was a NORM for boys to be given to "mentors" by their fathers, if the older man involved gave proper gifts and seemed like he would treat the boy well. The older man would then have the boy live with him, and teach him various things about being a man. But sometimes, this would corrupt and become sexual. Sometimes with the boy as willing as his age could allow, sometimes giving in after being manipulated in his naivete, but sometimes against his will. Pottery images have shown some boys running away crying after their mentor was shown touching their crotches. Most of the time, anal penetration did not happen, but rather the mentor would have the boy squeeze his aroused penis between his (the boy's) thighs. It was considered demeaning and disgraceful to anally penetrate. But sometimes this happened. And sometimes even the minor sexual acts were still traumatizing to the boys because they were innocent and it just wasn't in their nature. And THAT is mostly what the Bible was trying to warn against. Not necessarily the relationships between grown men, but the whole systematic pederasty that was an ugly part of society. It was forward-thinking, an attempt to allow children to keep their innocence and wait until they chose on their own to begin sexual activities. Greeks/Romans had casual flings with friends of either gender, yes, but it was only with these teen boys that they truly lay with them "as if married", because of the wedding-gift type offers and courtship rituals beforehand. So, if anything, it was an appeal against pederasty/pedophilia, and not against homosexuality. Which is ironically what so many priests are going against... But that's another story. --- Ugh... that's way longer than I intended... But there was so much to say! ^_^;; In short, the Bible actually does NOT specifically condemn homosexuality after all. So all Christians who use that as an excuse for unChristianlike hatred and judgment... well, that excuse does not even exist! That's why I'll stand up for equal rights till my dying day! |
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| Kirvee | Apr 23 2010, 12:35 PM Post #119 |
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@Za: *applause* I agree completely with everything you just said. Actually, a lot of what you said is mentioned in the documentary I linked to. |
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| squidduck | Apr 23 2010, 01:57 PM Post #120 |
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@Za: *applauds as well* That was just pure win. I swear this was one of the most sound, well-rounded argument of this issue that I've seen or read. |
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