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Old 06-18-2008, 10:44 AM
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I'd be afraid to find out what else fits in your realm of what makes this place Interesting.
Afraid? What a silly thing to be afraid of.

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What did you just say--did you compare gays to Outlaw bikers?
Aren't they ALSO a group that many people fear on sight and without any real cause. The anology is apt.

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No, but it does hint that one might be a bit of a tadpole. And I'm fucking tripping on frogs at this point, can't we just have a nice day at the pond?
Now you're just being contrary. Are you really tripping over gays in your life?

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If we were being infiltrated by beastiality, pedophelia, I hope someone would speak up and make some sense.
Infiltrated? ARe you being infiltrated by homos? That not only sounds uncomfortable, but unhygenic, too.


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Why do you care so much that he cares not have the gays surrounding him?
Gays "surrounding" him?

Either you guys live in San Francisco (and then you might ask yourselves why you've chosen to live in a town renound for its gay community) , or I don't really know what you're talking about.

You appear to me to be saying that you are plagued by homosexuals, and that they're infiltrating your lives.

Seems prety simply to me.

If you don't want to be queer, don't be.

If you don't like queers, don't hang around where queers congregate.

Is that really all that hard to understand?
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Old 06-18-2008, 11:23 AM
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Been trippin' on gaydom for yrs.

The analogy is anything but Apt, but whatever.

I don't know about you but I don't fear gays, of all people.

"Now you're just being contrary. Are you really tripping over gays in your life?"

You can say that to anyone who thinks differently. Contrary is not equivalent to Wrong.

An' yes, here in the sticks, I've been smothered in the gay agenda, in the Sticks I can't hide from it or keep it from my children. There's some sorta mob mentality surrounding it now, it's picked up so much speed you'd think it'd developed into an American fad, an infatuation.

People are infatuated by the lowliest of things, though.

"You appear to me to be saying that you are plagued by homosexuals, and that they're infiltrating your lives."

That's simplifying.

"Seems prety simply to me.

If you don't want to be queer, don't be."

Nobody said we feared they could indoctrinate us.--You've been indoctrinated already and don't know it.

"If you don't like queers, don't hang around where queers congregate.

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Is it any harder to understand that I should get to pick how my kids come up in the world to some degree I can live with??!!
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Old 06-18-2008, 11:54 AM
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They also find that whites and asians have bigger brains than blacks, which they can further accurately correlate with measures of intelligence, such as "IQ" and "G".

I don't recall the British Broadcasting of Communism covering those studies, however. What a shock.
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Old 06-18-2008, 12:04 PM
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SMOTHERED in the gay agenda, eh?


So, I take it you are fending off the urge to suck some cock since all those rainbows have moved to town?
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I've had the same thought.

To answer your question, I think the alternative scares people.

To ask one of my own: If this is true, doesn't that support the notion that there is an element of choice involved?
If one is bisexual then there is some element of choice. But you really can't choose who you are attracted to, can you?
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Old 06-18-2008, 03:05 PM
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If one is bisexual then there is some element of choice. But you really can't choose who you are attracted to, can you?
I don't know.

But if the spectrum theory is correct, then choice would necessarily have to be part of it. Unless there is a defined tippingpoint along the scale for which one side is gay, one side is straight. But that would undermine the whole spectrum theory since it would make the matter once again black/white.

Basically, unless choice is involved, it has to be a black/white matter.

Or to put it another way, it's logically inconsistent to say it isn't a choice but it's also subjective.

Get it?
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Old 06-18-2008, 03:11 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by manifold View Post
I don't know.

But if the spectrum theory is correct, then choice would necessarily have to be part of it. Unless there is a defined tippingpoint along the scale for which one side is gay, one side is straight. But that would undermine the whole spectrum theory since it would make the matter once again black/white.
I don't know either. It seems to me everyone would have the ability to be either and some combination of factors pushes one either way. Those factors could be hormonal, genetic and/or experience. Kind of like picking chocolate chip cookies over lemon pie...it could be a choice but something is making one choose.

Wouldn't bisexual people be the gray?
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Old 06-18-2008, 03:17 PM
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btw: While you were replying, I rewrote my post you quoted in an effort to be more clear about my point. I know sometimes I leave too much to the imagination.

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Wouldn't bisexual people be the gray?
Not necessarily. What if attraction to the same sex and attraction to the opposite sex are two different spectrums, with positive and negative ends. Perhaps bisexuals are just on the positive end of both.
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I don't know, the entire thing is pretty confusing. What makes anyone attracted to anyone else? I've heard various things...a certain body type, a certain odor, etc., so really being attracted to someone of the same sex probably isn't any more mysterious (or just as mysterious) as me liking a certain type of man. Which brings us back to the question you asked earlier--why does it even matter?

Blame it on the monkeys we descended from.
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Old 06-18-2008, 03:29 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ravi View Post
I don't know, the entire thing is pretty confusing. What makes anyone attracted to anyone else? I've heard various things...a certain body type, a certain odor, etc., so really being attracted to someone of the same sex probably isn't any more mysterious (or just as mysterious) as me liking a certain type of man. Which brings us back to the question you asked earlier--why does it even matter?
A question yet to be answered by the way.

I was hoping gnome-deeplume might offer some insight on the matter.
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Interesting, but how do they know that the brain changes don't occur after a period of time practicing gayness (sorry for the awkward phrasing, caffeine hasn't kicked in). I'd think they'd have to image the brains of fetuses and compare them in later life to consider this "proof." Also, why didn't they also study bisexual people?
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This is the first time, however, that scientists have used brain scanners to try to look for the source of those differences.
just ask where the illusive source is. people are NOT born gay. it is a preposterous premise. what is acting gay? what does gay look like? what are the quantifying criteria for making the case for gay vs not gay? sexual preference? how silly. how pc, on all sides
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Everything was a mutation. That's kind of how the whole evolution thing works.
What could possibly be the evolutionary advantage for blue-eyes? Better vision? How about, if homosexuality is a mutation, what's the evolutionary purpose of it? If a species is supposed to evolve to adapt and to carry on it's species, why would to homosexuality be considered an evolutionary mutation? --That would "DISCONTINUE" our species. And you speak of mutation as "was" like it no longer happens. I believe some mutations are evolution, however, if you expect me to believe that a down-syndrome baby is some kind of evolutionary mutation, you may want to rethink your position.

Do brown eyes see better than blue? Quarks, Quirks and Quips

Brown eyed people have been shown to have better vision that blue-eyed people. Their dark eyes absorb more light waves. So why would the human race need to evolve to blue eyes?
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the evolutionary advantage of homosexuality lies in it's nulification of the necessity to fight for the right to procreate the specie. In an overpopulated state animals tear each other apart for the right to mate. homosexual variations deflates this conflict.
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the evolutionary advantage of homosexuality lies in it's nulification of the necessity to fight for the right to procreate the specie. In an overpopulated state animals tear each other apart for the right to mate. homosexual variations deflates this conflict.
Hmmm.............. Great point.
But wouldn't homosexuality (in essence) be a "self-defeating" evolutionary mechanism. In the human world, we have the knowledge to pro-create even if you are a homosexual (i.e. surrogate mothers, test-tube babies, sperm donation) etc. However, in the animal world, homosexual animals would be unable to reproduce, thus not being able to spread their mutated gene. This is interesting.......
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